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  1. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    Wonder when the last time a series took until the third test for either team to score 300.
  2. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    This is the thing that really sets him apart for me. I've been thinking about where to rate him in terms of other players with amazing dominant streaks, and while I've seen more dominant players, someone like early 2000s Ponting or Kallis at his peak or whoever always felt like they had weak...
  3. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    This is fairly reasonable if you include all three forms of the game and weight them somewhat equally. Kohli is among the best test batsmen in the world, let's say top 5, and he's clearly the best limited overs batsman in the world in both ODI and t20 cricket. I think their overall runscoring...
  4. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    Calling that wide short ball from Umesh a "beauty" seems a bit generous.
  5. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    Border and Waugh both batted at 6 a lot and averaged over 50 there, though they did play more at 5 overall.
  6. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    He was an opener in first class cricket, but this is right. That was really the thing which kept him out of the test team for so long, Australia had a string of successful openers with Slater, Hayden, Langer etc, and Hussey never really dominated in the shield like he did in county cricket. Was...
  7. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    Averaged in the 30s at 6 so not really. Batsmen with good records at 6 since 2005 for Australia are Hussey, Gilchrist and Clarke... but nobody really recent. Best recent one is Voges who averaged 40 at 6. North, Symonds, Watson, Smith and M. Marsh all played a fair amount at that position and...
  8. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    Best stat in the failures at #6 for Australia saga: the last batsman to score a century at 6 for Australia was Smith, in the first test against South Africa in 2014. Since then Marsh has made one 50 at that position, Smith and Voges also made one each, and Burns made two.
  9. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    First half-century at 6 for Australia since Marsh in the Sri Lanka series last August. The last one before that was Voges in the 2015 Ashes. Pretty bad run for that spot. Starc has made 4 50s at number 8 in that period. edit: Actually one of Starc's 50s was at 9.
  10. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    No, but he is a quick scorer in all formats including in FC cricket, and Australia doesn't have a great record when it comes to players reigning in their natural games to suit match conditions, and Maxwell has that issue more than most. Not a totally unreasonable concern to imagine he might get...
  11. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    Obviously a big innings for Maxwell in terms of his career but I think the series would have been just about gone if he got out cheaply as well. Deserves a lot of credit given the pressure.
  12. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    Wtf?
  13. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    God that's a good ball to get first up.
  14. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    I like the call to bring Marsh on.
  15. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    His running between the wickets is what always gets me, really pretty shocking for a top order batsman in an era where hardly anyone is bad at that any more.
  16. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    Yeah, I think picking Marsh for this series was a no brainer and I think he's pretty underrated by most people. Was just commenting on the gap between his best and worst, which is massive. Nicks off for single figures more than any test quality batsman should but puts in efforts like this...
  17. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    If Kohli really is bowling Nair because he is worried Starc would be hitting Jadeja with the spin that's completely insane.
  18. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    Yeah I guess my thinking is influenced in part by how much your average cricket fan in Australia hates him and thinks he never makes any runs. His record hasn't been too bad overall, but he still scores a much higher percentage of his runs in difficult conditions/against good bowling than anyone...
  19. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    Marsh has the biggest gap between his best and worst of any batsman I've ever seen. I guess inflated by how infrequently he plays. But he's played at least half a dozen genuinely world class test innings in 20 odd tests, which is amazing for a player with a fairly ordinary overall record who is...
  20. FaaipDeOiad

    ***Official*** Australia in India 2017

    I think it's about preserving the prior intent of the rule, which was about certainty. If the ball is shaving the leg stump but there's reasonable doubt it wouldn't have been given LBW before (assuming correct umpiring) hence it still isn't. Otherwise you're changing the basic function of the...
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