Gob
International Coach
Or any testThe main thing you're indicating is that you didn't watch a ball of the Hobart test.
Or any testThe main thing you're indicating is that you didn't watch a ball of the Hobart test.
I saw quite a bit of it despite it being mostly in the middle of the night. I also saw all his desperate performances for Sussex in the County Championship (I'm guessing you didn't). Who knows which Head turns up this summer, but there's just as much chance as the Sussex version as the Hobart one. Most Sussex fans celebrated when he managed to get his partner pregnant and so dipped out on returning for a 2nd year, Pujara turned out to be a far better replacement.The main thing you're indicating is that you didn't watch a ball of the Hobart test.
Factually incorrect.nobody cares about Woakes
Factually trueFactually incorrect.
Red Ink Squid cares about Woakes.Factually true
He’s a very ordinary international cricketer and has been for the majority of his career
Got smoked in Australia & somehow picked for the WI where he failed again
If England are forced to pick him at age 34, advantage Australia
Better allround stats in England than Richard Hadlee in New Zealand.Factually true
He’s a very ordinary international cricketer and has been for the majority of his career
Got smoked in Australia & somehow picked for the WI where he failed again
If England are forced to pick him at age 34, advantage Australia
Sorry, it turns out the only way to rank an International Cricketer is how they've performed in Hobart!! As Hadlee never bowled there, he is removed from the discussion.Better allround stats in England than Richard Hadlee in New Zealand.
I think all fair and unbiased observers would rank the two of roughly equal stature in International cricket.
This is a good point. Stokes just lost a Test after he enforced the follow on.In fact I might even go as far as to say that Stokes should be dropped and Woakes should be installed as captain.
I know you're being sarcastic here but still silly. Barring injuries or a classically English approach to select bowlers by their batting I think Woakes' test career is done. Robinson is clearly ahead of him. Even Potts (who I don't rate at all) is a clear rival, not least having advantage of youth. And there's Wood too.Better allround stats in England than Richard Hadlee in New Zealand.
I think all fair and unbiased observers would rank the two of roughly equal stature in International cricket.
Oh I follow the County Championship.I saw quite a bit of it despite it being mostly in the middle of the night. I also saw all his desperate performances for Sussex in the County Championship (I'm guessing you didn't). Who knows which Head turns up this summer, but there's just as much chance as the Sussex version as the Hobart one. Most Sussex fans celebrated when he managed to get his partner pregnant and so dipped out on returning for a 2nd year, Pujara turned out to be a far better replacement.
Yeah this is all fair, but at the same you can't just say "it doesn't count" as a good innings against a good attack in tough conditions because it wasn't in the geographically right place.I think Head’s innings in Hobart was worthy of praise and fair to say it was on a seaming track. But as I said elsewhere, playing away isn’t just about mastering the pitch. Even aside from all the mental aspects of playing away in sports, especially international sports, I’ve always felt in England it’s the overhead and atmospheric conditions as much as it is the pitch that batsmen can struggle with. Head’s innings in Hobart doesn’t prove he can do it in England, because it wasn’t in England, but fair enough to think he’s got a better chance than previously based on such innings.
Woakes and Crawley up top you reckon?While Woakes is obviously better in home conditions than elsewhere, I do think his current record is somewhat of an anomaly and if he played an infinite amount of Tests it wouldn't really look quite like that.
That said, if people want to complain about him being picked in away Tests because of his horrible record overseas, the same people should equally argue for him to be one of the first on the team sheet in important home Tests because he's totally h4x.
In fact I might even go as far as to say that Stokes should be dropped and Woakes should be installed as captain.
Yeah everything always counts, just with different coefficients.Yeah this is all fair, but at the same you can't just say "it doesn't count" as a good innings against a good attack in tough conditions because it wasn't in the geographically right place.
To be fair, Zak Crawley can do that too, it's just he hasn't made it to 20 balls for flippin' ages!The thing is, you can definitely say that he doesn't look technically up to it, he looks terrible, he plays with really hard hands and no foot movement. I'd probably agree! The Travis Head experience is that he looks absolutely rank awful for his first 20 balls, somehow flukes his way to about 15*, and then starts hammering fours like he's playing park cricket. I can't quite remember watching anything like it but it seems very, very effective.
Crawley isn’t in the same class as HeadTo be fair, Zak Crawley can do that too, it's just he hasn't made it to 20 balls for flippin' ages!
I'm not using the Sussex Experience as a guarantee he's going to fail, but at the same time, what happened in Hobart is no guarantee to success either.
I know he'd played well elsewhere (and I think the double ton in the 50 over game was perhaps the turning point for him in terms of confidence), but Hobart was a dead rubber Test against a team frankly ready to go home (even more so than usual with all the Covid protocols). He obviously got a ton at the Gabba, but even then he came to the wicket with Aus already 40 runs ahead and only 3 down.
Will he score runs if he comes in at say 30-3 at Edgbaston? What happened at Hobart has zero bearing at this point.