The fact that he went 20 odd innings without passing 50 across his county stint and Aus-A exploits recently should automatically leave him at the bottom of the pecking order, but guarantee you a 100 here puts him in the test squad.
Was thinking the same. I wonder if he's getting close? His form and consistency has improved enough for consideration.
I feel like he is just lacking and needs to make a leap in one aspect of his cricket, probably his batting. If he can average 45-50 for a shield season or 2 and keep picking up regular poles he has to be in the reckoning. Only thing is there are at least half a dozen other all rounders in the same boat, and most of them like Hardie, Sutherland are a lot younger (I think)
But up until this round their bowling stats weren't too dissimilar. Webster with the better batting stats and improving.
Recency bias, age, ceiling and state will win out
Except Pucovski playing
Hopefully he can do that this season. He was never playing this summer anyway, hopefully we're only looking for 1 replacement opener after this summer is over. I'd pick Bancroft infront of Marcus fn Harris tho
I can't say I really agree with this. Both are equally dreadful options IMO
Sure but there aren’t many options
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Head might want to do it but I loathe to move him at home tbh.