Has played pretty well.Better than nothing IMO. Luke Wright hitting well or getting lucky?
About 85-15 now.About 70-30.
You could say he's coming Wright and things are Luke-ing up for him.Has played pretty well.
You could say he's coming Wright and things are Luke-ing up for him.
Just looking over Elliott's record. While he did look pretty damn dire in his only Test, his numbers really back up his selection.
His career record is pretty average - 1173 runs @ 33.51 and 46 wickets @ 30.84 (5.12) in List A cricket. His List A batting average is worse than Hamish Marshall's and well, we've all seen him bowl.
However..
Since defecting to New Zealand, he's played 26 List A games. He started pretty poorly but the bat, but he still has a very impressive overall record. He has 645 runs @ 49.62 over three seasons. That's pretty awesome really. He averaged 64.6 in 10 List A games last season. He started pretty poorly with the ball since defecting as well, taking one wicket in his first season at 76. Again though, he's been pretty useful overall since the move, taking 35 wickets @ 24.58 in 26 games. Economy rate a little high at 4.9 but he's the fifth bowler and he's in the side for his batting primarily, so it's not awful.
Fair from the worst selection ever, really. He obviously wasn't much chop in SA but he's been one of the leading players in NZ domestic one day cricket.
What happened?Sounds an appalling ****-up on cricinfo.
What happened?
Oh and Styris bowling absolute garbage.
...cricinfo said:Vettori to Bopara, OUT, it's Keystone Cop stuff out there. Bopara pushed into the covers, attempted a single, turned back, and found Collingwood hurtling for the same end. There was never any doubt that a wicket had fallen, the question was who? After a long delay and several replays, Bopara is sent on his way