It's also been the way he's gotten out too. I would hazard at a guess that 80% of his dismissals have been (1) bowled through a huge gate from a quick bowling around the wicket (2) a really ****ing stupid shot, usually falling into the most obvious trap in the world. Those aren't good modes of dismissal to be known for.
Wasn't the India tour before the Bairstow incident too? He's been shocking for a while now.
Yep, I've got a fair idea. No doubt Jesse had some issues to overcome, he grew up in a rough house, slept on the floor in the garage, was around drinking consistently, started himself early, it was written in the stars that he would grow up an alcoholic. So you feel like he had a lot to overcome through no fault of his own.
Yeah, it was.
Thinking back to that match, just underlines how pivotal that Green wicket on the final day was. He looked totally solid until his somewhat unlucky dismissal and then the rest of the batting looked totally vulnerable.
C ucked
What/who are you comparing that to ? What do you think your wicketkeepe Number 7 should average with the bat ?
I remember bagging the selection when people bought it up after that India tour, but I wonder if Australia should try and move Head to open, Smith to 4 and Green to 5. Certainly as things stand the top order seems too defensive and the middle order are the sort of guys that either get bowled out for 10 or make a crucial aggressive innings.
I'd expect an average of 30+. Carey was definitely delivering that for a while but in recent times he hasn't.
I think this is a tad reactive
Agree he's out of form with the bat, but he's not alone there. Could almost say that about the entire top and middle order right now.
I suppose it comes down to your own personal outlook as to whether you feel Jesse Ryder was 'dudded' or not. Perhaps my own background and politics prevent me from seeing this as clearly as you do, which is why I'm just banging on in an obscure forum and no one with any clout cares what I think.
And happily.
What Kuggeleijn did was so heinous by his own admission that it kind of obviates the point of comparisons tbh. Yeah pretty much anything else is going to look bad in comparison because there's no way to make "we're running a protection racket for a guy who admitted to having *** with a woman without her consent, and he isn't even that good" look good. So it doesn't really have any bearing either way on whether Ryder was treated properly or not.
Also Carey isn't that good with the gloves. He's good, and excellent against spin - though still not in Foakes's class, for example - but not flawless. To even have a prayer of justifying his place with his current batting contributions he has to be completely impeccable and he just isn't - he still has that issue where he doesn't transfer his weight properly onto his right foot when Starc especially is bowling over the wicket and it causes him to miss catches or even ignore catches to his right. It's a somewhat of a nitpick criticism but you know what, when "I'm the best keeper" is literally all you have going for you, even nitpicks can become serious problems.
He's be more valuable if he played for an Asian team tbh because of how many more difficult chances off the spinners come to the keeper in those conditions. Needs more runs to justify selection for a SENA team.
