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**Official** Australia in Bangladesh
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FaaipDeOiad
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Cosgrove has looked the goods.
Interesting situation with both Jaques and Cosgrove knocking on the door now. Katich is probably safe for the moment at the top of the order, but you'd have to think it places some extra pressure on the likes of Martyn for the World Cup, given that both of them can bat down the order a bit if necessary.
Interesting situation with both Jaques and Cosgrove knocking on the door now. Katich is probably safe for the moment at the top of the order, but you'd have to think it places some extra pressure on the likes of Martyn for the World Cup, given that both of them can bat down the order a bit if necessary.
age_master
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Cosgrove shows we have another opener who is better then Katich....
age_master
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Youve gotta love the massive presentation panels there is like 10 people...
age_master
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marc71178 said:
it doesn't, he was better then Katich before that, but he dominated Katich today.
FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
After today's knock, Katich is the second highest run scorer in the world behind Sangakkara in 2006 ODIs. He's also averaging almost 44 for the year and has one century and five fifties. His strike rate isn't that bad either. The amount of crap he cops on here when he's not done anything wrong is really quite amazing.
Yes, Jaques is probably a better ODI batsman than Katich, but you can't drop a guy who is making valuable runs as consistently as anyone else in the side. I was in favour of Katich being ditched six months ago, but he's been in excellent form against all opposition since then, and he deserves to make the World Cup squad based on the way he has played. In fact, Australia's entire batting order has been very productive in recent times, with Gilchrist, Katich, Ponting, Symonds, Clarke and Hussey all averaging over 40 for the year. It's only been the bowling and Martyn that have struggled at times.
If Jaques or Cosgrove is to come into the side, it will be in the middle order, because the openers have been in fine form.
Yes, Jaques is probably a better ODI batsman than Katich, but you can't drop a guy who is making valuable runs as consistently as anyone else in the side. I was in favour of Katich being ditched six months ago, but he's been in excellent form against all opposition since then, and he deserves to make the World Cup squad based on the way he has played. In fact, Australia's entire batting order has been very productive in recent times, with Gilchrist, Katich, Ponting, Symonds, Clarke and Hussey all averaging over 40 for the year. It's only been the bowling and Martyn that have struggled at times.
If Jaques or Cosgrove is to come into the side, it will be in the middle order, because the openers have been in fine form.
age_master
Hall of Fame Member
awards
Master blaster - Cosgrove
Fast 50 - Cosgrove
Most valuable for Ban - Bashar
Most runs for the series - Bashar
safe hands - Gilly
Most wickets - Hogg
MOTM - Cosgrove
lots of novelty cheques for $1000 going round this series.
Master blaster - Cosgrove
Fast 50 - Cosgrove
Most valuable for Ban - Bashar
Most runs for the series - Bashar
safe hands - Gilly
Most wickets - Hogg
MOTM - Cosgrove
lots of novelty cheques for $1000 going round this series.
age_master
Hall of Fame Member
FaaipDeOiad said:
He doesn't score fast enough early on, he needs to score at a good strike rate more consistently. If he is going to play the 'secondary' role he needs to be able to push singles more easily. also seems to lack the ability to bat on and make big scores.
FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
He needs to pick it up a bit when the pitch is an absolute road, yeah, but his innings today was perfectly acceptable. Australia were cruising along at a run a ball and didn't lose any early wickets, and that's ideal. If you look at the opening scores that Gilchrist and Katich have managed together this year, they've generally been quite a solid foundation for the innings and scored at a good rate too. 30 off 50 isn't a bad innings by an opener really, especially if the guy at the other end makes 50 off 30, and that's been about the worst Katich has managed this year.age_master said:
His 40+ scores this year are: 60 off 78, 52 off 89, 82 off 110, 56 off 81, 107 off 142, 49 off 80, 36 off 68, 79 off 90 and 42 off 69. There's only a couple of scores there which are a bit slow (like the 36), mostly he's been decent when he's gotten a start. His failures have been quite rare (he's passed 40 9 times in 18 innings in 2006), but the only one that came at a slow rate was the 16 off 47 he made in the second ODI in South Africa, and that came when Australia was bowled out for 93, so it's not as though anyone else did any better.
FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
andyc said:
Fine. Significant scores, then.
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
Cosgrove may have scored 70-odd, but his fitness was questionable for the hot conditions. He nearly got run out several times [direct hits could have had him short once or twice] and by the time he got to 50 he was just standing there and trying to slog everything.