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***Official*** West Indies tour of Australia, Jan–Feb 2024

Nintendo

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
Gob said:
Well I didn't like the idea in the first place. Its more like trying to fix things that aren't broken etc

Australia don't play much test cricket this year. After New Zealand away, its India next season. He'll be a year older and the prospect of facing Bumrah and Shami is not massively encouraging prospect

But I agree now that he is given the chance, they need a longer run
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Warner retired, the other openers we have aren't up to international standard and need more time to hopefully develop, our next best bat based on FC/Aus-A performance and test efforts is a natural #4, and smith also wants to open. Fixes a few things that aren't broken (IE, get's some younger guys into the team, get's respective players into positions they want, gives us a bit more time to develop the current crop of openers.
 
Nintendo

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
Spark said:
Just without the strong away performances in between
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Marnus averages 40 away, higher if you exclude his cricket before the 2019 ashes, and hasn't had a horror series away. He's completely fine away from home. This whole "he sucks away" narrative needs to go. He's not warner who averaged 30 away FFS.
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
Nintendo said:
Marnus averages 40 away, higher if you exclude his cricket before the 2019 ashes, and hasn't had a horror series away. He's completely fine away from home. This whole "he sucks away" narrative needs to go. He's not warner who averaged 30 away FFS.
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He's not Warner bad and yet even Warner has SA 2014 to his name
 
Gob

Gob

International Coach
Nintendo said:
Warner retired, the other openers we have aren't up to international standard and need more time to hopefully develop, our next best bat based on FC/Aus-A performance and test efforts is a natural #4, and smith also wants to open. Fixes a few things that aren't broken (IE, get's some younger guys into the team, get's respective players into positions they want, gives us a bit more time to develop the current crop of openers.
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Well I'm not the one to tell Steve Smith where he should bat but its worth keep in mind that he has not look fluent in any form of cricket for good six months now and has been missing straight balls. Despite all that, he has been grinding some important runs

If the out puts come to single figure scores, its not very good
 
Nintendo

Nintendo

Cricketer Of The Year
Spark said:
He's not Warner bad and yet even Warner has SA 2014 to his name
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Warner had 1 great away series in SA and two good tests in Bangladesh in a 10+ year career. The bloke averages 30 away ffs. That's passable at best.
 
Chubb

Chubb

International Regular
What is Labuschagne’s average over the last 10 tests? He has a lot of credit in the bank but at some point this must become a concern.
 
Spark

Spark

Global Moderator
Nintendo said:
Warner had 1 great away series in SA and two good tests in Bangladesh in a 10+ year career. The bloke averages 30 away ffs. That's passable at best.
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I mean yeah but my point is that Marnus hasn't even beat that low bar yet.
 
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