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Anyone else think Harris is a very good chance of making the test party to go to New Zealand if Hilfenhaus isn't fit? Think he'd be seen by Ponting and the selectors as a bit of a like-for-like replacement, bowls at a similar pace to Hilfenhaus and with the same 'heavy ball', and he also offers similar control and can move the ball away from the right handers.
NUFAN
Y no Afghanistan flag
He's bowling beautifully so I wouldn't mind him on the tour at all.
Only issue is that Harris has only played one first class game this season.
Hilfenhaus was up to 146kph at times during the Ashes and South Africa tours....majority of both their deliveries seem to be about 138-143 though...much like Siddle, don't think there's much between those three in terms of pace.
I don't think his lack of FC cricket this summer will count against him too much it he keeps bowling like this for the remainer of the one dayers. That said I must admit I've never really seen him bowl with the red ball, as Fox Sports stopped broadcasting shield cricket around the time he suddenly went from a very average FC player to an exceptional one.
Noble One
International Vice-Captain
Loving the form of Harris. Never expected him to be this good, thought he would play a couple of games and return figures of 1/40 odd, solid but unspectacular, much like his entire career. Why couldn't he be this awesome 5-6 years ago?
Having watched afair bit of Harris both for SA and for Queensland, he is comfortably bowling at the peak of his career. Has nearly everything going for him at the moment, nipping pace, touch of swing and he isn't spraying the ball about. Hope he maintains this and can create a spot of his own in the ODI team. Nathan Bracken will never return to Australian colours again considering the depth and performance of some of our backup seamers.
Johnson
Siddle
McKay
Lee
Bracken
Harris
Geeves
Tait
Nannes
Bollinger
You could mix and match a combination out of any of those bowlers. Even those beyond the above names such as Cutting, Hastings, Rimmington would hardly be horrible. To think a cricketer such as Noffke would now be about 15th/16th in line for ODI duties. That is depth.
Having watched afair bit of Harris both for SA and for Queensland, he is comfortably bowling at the peak of his career. Has nearly everything going for him at the moment, nipping pace, touch of swing and he isn't spraying the ball about. Hope he maintains this and can create a spot of his own in the ODI team. Nathan Bracken will never return to Australian colours again considering the depth and performance of some of our backup seamers.
Johnson
Siddle
McKay
Lee
Bracken
Harris
Geeves
Tait
Nannes
Bollinger
You could mix and match a combination out of any of those bowlers. Even those beyond the above names such as Cutting, Hastings, Rimmington would hardly be horrible. To think a cricketer such as Noffke would now be about 15th/16th in line for ODI duties. That is depth.
Johnners
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It's kinda funny that tonights bowling attack was IMO missing our 3 best OD bowlers (Lee, Dougy & Mitch)
Nate
You'll Never Walk Alone
Streetwise
Banned
What a game by Hauritz.
53* off 40 odd balls including 4 6's, stood up at the right time for Aus a great effort for this alone.
Bowled OK and took a wicket, Perth is not a good wicket for a slow bowler.
Held onto a catch and produced a run out.
Great cricket and good to see him play such a good game after the crap he has copped.
(Trivia; Hauritz debuted in the first ODI Ponting was captain of Australia 203 matches ago.)
(Trivia2) In his last 7 ODI innings Hauritz has scored 110 runs without getting out.)
53* off 40 odd balls including 4 6's, stood up at the right time for Aus a great effort for this alone.
Bowled OK and took a wicket, Perth is not a good wicket for a slow bowler.
Held onto a catch and produced a run out.
Great cricket and good to see him play such a good game after the crap he has copped.
(Trivia; Hauritz debuted in the first ODI Ponting was captain of Australia 203 matches ago.)
(Trivia2) In his last 7 ODI innings Hauritz has scored 110 runs without getting out.)
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Tait was a crazy good ODI bowler too. Depth is one area where Australia still ****s all over the rest of the world in cricket.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Wouldn't call Tait "crazy good", could bowl some absolutely unplayable stuff but was also prone to sending down plenty of garbage that was there for hitting.
Have to say I do like that type of bowler in ODIs though, you're never safe against them. Makes for excellent viewing.
Have to say I do like that type of bowler in ODIs though, you're never safe against them. Makes for excellent viewing.
Nate
You'll Never Walk Alone
No-one's doubting his ability to score late runs and field well. It's the part where he conceeded over a third of the runs @ 6 an over that's of concern.
Come to think of it, he hasn't really copped any crap about his OD cricket, at least not on CW. But considering his bowling average is 50 this series and he's going for 6.25 rpo, maybe he should be.
Matt79
Hall of Fame Member
Wow, great effort from the guys last night. Harris is a total revelation for me at least. He looked so good yesterday - I can't imagine that that was a typical couple of spells from him or else the selectors want to be keelhauled for not having in him the team for a long time. But if (and given I'm talking about form shown in just two ODIs over the space of a week, it is admittedly a big "if") he can continue to bowl like that, I'd say he's in our best ODI XI.
Loved Haureh's cameo with the bat as well, obvs.
Loved Haureh's cameo with the bat as well, obvs.