***Official*** Australian Domestic Season 2010/11

[NUFAN]

Good thinking Noble One, just 1 minute late.

Yeah so he's out now, I really want to see someone capable of making double tons, like Khawaja showed the other day.

You look at our batting lineup compared to England's and the major difference is the highest scores.

Ponting 257
Trott 226
Pietersen 226
Collingwood 206
Bell 199
Hussey 182
Strauss 177
Cook 173
Haddin 169
Broad 169
Clarke 168
Katich 157
Prior 131*
North 128
Watson 126
Johnson 123*

Highest Scores are not everything, but the ability of someone like Khawaja to make 200's excites me more than Ferguson who has now made 5 First Class tons with a highest score of 132.

 

[Jayzamann]

tbh the only player that I would have expected to pass 200 by now is Clarke, out of all those guys.

"Expected" really isn't the right word, but my mind is mush right now so I hope everyone gets my drift.

 

[howardj]

Where's Goffers Magoffin?

 

[robelinda]

Good thinking Noble One, just 1 minute late.

Yeah so he's out now, I really want to see someone capable of making double tons, like Khawaja showed the other day.

You look at our batting lineup compared to England's and the major difference is the highest scores.

Ponting 257
Trott 226
Pietersen 226
Collingwood 206
Bell 199
Hussey 182
Strauss 177
Cook 173
Haddin 169
Broad 169
Clarke 168
Katich 157
Prior 131*
North 128
Watson 126
Johnson 123*

Highest Scores are not everything, but the ability of someone like Khawaja to make 200's excites me more than Ferguson who has now made 5 First Class tons with a highest score of 132.

Great post. Something ive been saying for a few years, not many big scores comng from the Aussies, Punters 257 was 7 years ago, you'd expect guys like Clarke, Hussey and Katich to make some big ones, but it aint happening, and I dont see it happening.

 

[vcs]

I think Australian batsmen go on to make higher scores on average than English batsmen, though. Can't conclude anything based on one-off highest scores.

 

[Dasa]

Yeah I haven't looked into the figures but my perception is that the batsmen in the current English team tend to make 'small' 100s - getting out after passing 100 but not going on to 140, 150+. Anyway, I reckon the emphasis should be on 150+ rather than 200, in which case I'd think the Australians do rather well in comparison to England.

 

[Jarquis]

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Make of that what you will.

 

[lachlan43]

Looks like a recall for Gillespie and Hodge is in order.

 

[robelinda]

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[robelinda]

Massive knock today for Khawaja, coming in early at the gabba, if he makes a big score today i reckon he's a starter for the first test.

Really pleased for Blizzard, big 140 unbeaten, first ton in FC cricket. Tremendous hitter, great to see SA give the bloke a go, Victoria missed the boat there.

 

[NUFAN]

Yeah I agree Robelinda about Khawaja.

Hughes again made a low score, seriously if Katich's thumb injury ruled him out of the First Test, I wouldn't pick Hughes, I would move Hussey to opener and have Khawaja at 4.

 

[lachlan43]

I'd pick Klinger.

 

[robelinda]

Yeah I agree Robelinda about Khawaja.

Hughes again made a low score, seriously if Katich's thumb injury ruled him out of the First Test, I wouldn't pick Hughes, I would move Hussey to opener and have Khawaja at 4.

Yeah i might go with that you know, guys in form should be picked, Hughes hasnt done anything in any form so far this season. Hussey opening as a stop gap option aint a bad idea if they want Khawaja in, would love to see Ferguson or White in there by end of season too. But, if North has a killer series then count me a bigger fan, I like his style just not his failure rate.

 

[Prince EWS]

Yeah I agree Robelinda about Khawaja.

Hughes again made a low score, seriously if Katich's thumb injury ruled him out of the First Test, I wouldn't pick Hughes, I would move Hussey to opener and have Khawaja at 4.

Definitely taking that a bit far. It was his first Shield innings of the season so we're working off a very small sample size and the difference between Hughes and Khawaja definitely isn't enough to move two batsmen out of their normal positions just to get Khawaja into the team. If Hughes is going to be flown all over the world as a reserve batsman and miss Shield games because of it, he shouldn't fall out of the reckoning just because someone's scoring early-season Shield runs he doesn't have the opportunity to.

 

[robelinda]

Big Hughes fan here, would love to see him in the aussie side. But if a spot comes up and he has had full month of really low scores and others have made big ones then what? Show faith in Hughes still?

 

[Sylvester]

Yeah I agree Robelinda about Khawaja.

Hughes again made a low score, seriously if Katich's thumb injury ruled him out of the First Test, I wouldn't pick Hughes, I would move Hussey to opener and have Khawaja at 4.

Wouldn't need to move Hussey, Khawaja is a natural opener which hes been doing in 2nd 11 and grade cricket.

 

[NUFAN]

Prince, It's not as though I'm calling for the conclusion of Michael Swart into the Test team due to solid early season form.

Khawaja was flown over to England for the Pakistan series also, so the difference between our 7th and 8th best batsman (according to the selectors) is quite minimal in my opinion. Hughes hasn't made many runs in four day cricket for a while, he didn't do too well in County Cricket last season did he?

I don't think the move of Hussey to opener would really be moving 2 players out of position. Hussey is a genuine opener and I believe he could easily do a job up the top if Katich was not avaialble (I'm sure Kat will play at the GABBA, just talking in hypotheticals). 4 Clarke, 5 Khawaja or visa versa doesn't really bother me..

I'm looking forward to seeing how much influence Chappell has with selections..

EDIT - Sylvester, I didn't realize that Usman was previously an opener. He certainly looks like a top order bat and I would prefer him to start his Test Career in the middle order for Australia.

It's not as though Hussey is setting the world on fire in the middle order any more. Perhaps he's missing the new ball, I'm certainly concerned about Huss getting out to Swann early, edging to first slip or getting LBW again..

 

[Prince EWS]

Big Hughes fan here, would love to see him in the aussie side. But if a spot comes up and he has had full month of really low scores and others have made big ones then what? Show faith in Hughes still?

Well, he's made one low score all season. One day cricket's pretty irrelevant especially since he's never been very good at it. If he's had six Shield innings for an average in the teens then sure but he shouldn't lose his place based on one innings, particularly if it's an opening spot that's up for grabs.

 

[Sylvester]

Khawaja actually scored back to back 200 for NSW 2nd XI as opener so he certainly can do it. I'm confident he would go well where ever he is put, it would be more about Hussey. There are pros and cons for moving him up the order. The change would be a pro but moving up the order would more than likely mean he goes back to scoring at a strike rate of 20 odd. That is all well and good if you can back that up with a 100 but he seem to get to about 30, 40 or 50 then get out with that strike rate. So essentially the team momentum is stalled and our total has gone no where, see the 1st Test against India for an example. I prefer seeing him play like he does in ODI where he is continually rotating the strike, he did that in the 1st innings of the 2nd Test against India and it was the best he had looked in ages.

 

[NUFAN]

Usman is smashing around Walter so far he's made 24 runs off 17 balls bowled by him.

Sylvester, I think everyone who supports Aus, would prefer to see Huss bat like he did in the second Test over the first Test, I see no reason why he couldn't rotate the strike opening though.