IMO everyone should at least be treated as an adult. It's disrespectful the way most of this forum ignores and/or humours this guy as if he's the special kid in school you don't want to engage for fear of ruining discussion.
Not that these comparisons are relevant at all, but yes, it was more stupid. In the former you're comparing a prediction involving guesswork (and a perfectly reasonable one that just ended up being wrong) with a claim that hindsight shows is evidently wrong. Not even in the same ballpark.
Doesn't everyone have a wrist spin boner when it comes to bouncy Australian pitches?
Not sure but they shouldn't. Australia have barely played one (if at all?) in the last 10 years. Yasir Shah was supposed to be the best in the world and he was terrible. Imran Tahir was terrible. Since Warne & MacGill retired every leg spinner to play in Aus has been crap anyway. The successful spinners have been Lyon, Ashwin, Jadeja, Maharaj.
Yeah I said it before the last series out here. h_hurricane is a delicate soul. As you say, comparing a prediction with something which has actually transpired is, well, odd to put it kindly. What's more, if you're wanting to say "series outcome would have been different if only X", it's probably not a great shout to use as your "only" the test where the other outfit declared twice.
It still get perpetrated for some reason though. Warne trying to talk up Shah out here when he toured was so embarrassing it hurt your ear drums just listening. Probably the best wrist spinner to play out here since MacGill retired was Kuldeep, and he's mostly been a LO go-to rather than in tests, though he took 5-fer in the one test he played here in 2019.
I don’t think using Tahir as an example in Tests is good, considering how bad he is everywhere. Maybe as a how not to do it?
This post is largely correct. However the source of my frustration is mostly just from reading a really dumb comment.
tbf he would have if they just simply hit him back over his head.
Correct. Australia’s batting was very disappointing last series. It’s always embarrassing to lose a series at home, but when you lose wickets to slow bowlers not turning it, you’re doing batting completely wrong.
Don't think pucovski would have made a huge difference tbh. India won that game really comfortably, even 100 runs from to puc to burns's 1 run or whatever he made wouldn't have changed the result imo.If Australia had have selected Pucovski at melbourne intsead of Burns they could have won the series 2-1. Langer's boner for out of form queensland openers cost Australia the series
was a joke
Riveting
Agreed
