Yeah I agree. Not that he'd actually bat six, but he'd bat seven and I'd still agree there. I'd want to see some PS tons before I started considering him any sort of serious allrounder prospect, but I just think that with four seamers in the side Corey's bowling becomes a bit of a non-event, and if Corey's not bowling I'd back Craig to add more to the side right now.
The former I guess? Trying to survive renders him strokeless and seems to put pressure on Latham. Also, I don't have high hopes for him seeing off Hazlewood through defence.
Craig would actually be unfortunate to miss out here having had a good match with the bat and bowled very well one day 1 at the Basin. Wagner more likely to bounce back though if the Aussies get on top of him.
also, yes.
Great way to ensure monochromity of pitches. Terrible Ida for Test matches in my view.
Nah, you'd still get solid variation in pitches around the world, you'd just get fewer pitches that massively favour the side winning the toss, like those dungheaps in India last year.
I think we'd get some pretty interesting pitches. Flat wickets would just make batting first a no-brainer.
That wouldn't make him any worse at it though. I can't tell if you're being meta about that or not.
Still seems too big an advantage to me, like imagine Australia effectively winning the toss every test of a 5 test Ashes series in England. Would have to be a reasonably significant increase in their chance of winning the series. But yeah that'd be better than the home team always batting first most likely. But I think worse than luck, probably.
I took the hashtag to suggest he was joking.
yeah I'm a supporter of the "pick a side and stick with it" technique for reasons which have no backing in fact or probability
