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Common sense would dictate that everyone doesI felt that Williamson comes in earlier against quality opposition
Trent Copeland started his grade career as a keeper at St George.Re: Phillips, are there many other cricketers who ditched the gloves to become a very effective bowler? Tristan Stubbs also has kept and bowls spin (though not to GPs level).
Different circumstances but Mitchell Starc was a wicket-keeper at junior level.Re: Phillips, are there many other cricketers who ditched the gloves to become a very effective bowler? Tristan Stubbs also has kept and bowls spin (though not to GPs level).
Preconceptions are there to be challenged, particularly when the evidence is readily at hand. The data could easily have suggested that he was coming in just as early against Pakistan and therefore completely annulled any argument about the openers.Common sense would dictate that everyone does
He was so unlucky to be injured last season & miss the NZ A stuff. If he did even half of what Kuggs did in those series, he'd have made this squad easily. Who knows? He might've taken 6-fer against Australia.Nathan Smith demonstrating his all round abilities. Stead has never heard of the bloke though. I bet he’s chomping at the bit to get a chance & yet the muppets-that-be persist with the SP.
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‘4 March 2024:
At the age of just 20, Muhammad Abbas has his second first-class century after an unbeaten 110* helped bring home a shock five-wicket win for the Wellington Firebirds (over Canterbury) today at the end of the fifth round of the national Plunket Shield championship - lifting the Firebirds to the top of the table.
Abbas teamed up with Nathan Smith to seal the only outright win of the dramatic round, Smith backing up his superb career best of 6/36 yesterday with an unbeaten knock of
75* this afternoon, in an unbroken 148*-run stand for the sixth wicket with Abbas.‘
The selectors have to be smart enough to realise that. Apparently they aren’t. Probably rigidly sticking to ‘pathways’ rather than using a bit of nous. The bloke couldn’t help being injured.He was so unlucky to be injured last season & miss the NZ A stuff. If he did even half of what Kuggs did in those series, he'd have made this squad easily. Who knows? He might've taken 6-fer against Australia.
I think you're barking up an irrelevant tree with this "coming in earlier" theory anyway tbh but if it's for your own interest i wish you the best of luckPreconceptions are there to be challenged, particularly when the evidence is readily at hand. The data could easily have suggested that he was coming in just as early against Pakistan and therefore completely annulled any argument about the openers.
I learnt that when my kids read the "Mighty Mitch" book series supposedly about him as a kid. Also read the "Kaboom Kid" ones (little Davy Warner)Different circumstances but Mitchell Starc was a wicket-keeper at junior level.
on this as well, Mitch Starc played as a WK-bat in the juniorsTrent Copeland started his grade career as a keeper at St George.
Sounds great:I learnt that when my kids read the "Mighty Mitch" book series supposedly about him as a kid. Also read the "Kaboom Kid" ones (little Davy Warner)
There's a new kid in town and he wants Mitch's wicketkeeping spot. The gloves are on! Get ready for a mighty Clash of the Keepers! Mitchell Starc and Marshall Spark have got loads in common. They both like keeping. They both like opening the batting. Even their names sound the same! So what's driving Mitch bananas? * Marshall is completely, totally, epically ANNOYING! * Mitch's mate Josh has a PRANKING PLAN (which will probably get Mitch in trouble too) * Someone in the team has BANANA GLOVES . . . and it's really gross! * The Wombats have ONE LAST CHANCE to make the semi-finals Can they do it? Or will they muck it up BIG TIME?! Find out in this action-filled, hilarious new book created by cricket superstar Mitchell Starc!
If we knew it was going to spin - not so much the spin, more so the bounce - Santner would have played," he said. "We got that wrong...
But the way he [Phillips] trains, he's certainly a full-time spinner in our eyes.
"He's very early in his career still. [I'm] looking forward to seeing how he keeps developing.
"He has a thirst for knowledge and wants to keep learning to get better."
Australia probably wouldn't have read it that way either, they just back their spinner and always select em.Stuff
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That's right. GP ended the Head & Warner Show, then took Smith too. In fact, he was the reason Australia didn't reach 400, going at 3.7rpo when everyone else on both sides went at 6rpo at least.Still don't understand why Phillips didn't get a single over in the 1st innings with all the lefties (including most importantly Hazelwood) in the Aussie team. He also got his 3/37 against them at the World Cup.