Zinzan
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I suppose you've got to laugh, otherwise you'd cry
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***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2017
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hendrix
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Have you watched this morning? He's been incredibly unlucky.
Would you rather we play Sodhi?
Zinzan
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Watched on & off this morning. In terms if who else, the point is they're all mediocre at Test level sadly, whether it's Craig, Sodhi or Patel, so I'd probably look at potential. My point about Patel is that in spite of all the talk about him being this new improved bowler... he's basically the same guy he was before his county stink... a 45-50 Test average spinner.
wellAlbidarned
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patel is going to tear sa a new one next session
straw man
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Tbf it's a little better if you give him the lbw he should have had here, and the one dropped edge he had in India.
Zinzan
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Tbf, if we played that game with all bowlers, there'd be a lot more sub 25 average test bowlers around
All bowlers have chances missed/ decision turned down. Part of Test cricket, the cream always rises to the top in spite of some bad luck here and there.
straw man
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Sure, though over a tiny sample size it's disproportionately large to lose 20% of your wickets to bad luck.Tbf, if we played that game with all bowlers, there'd be a lot more sub 25 average test bowlers around
All bowlers have chances missed/ decision turned down. Part of Test cricket, the cream always rises to the top in spite of some bad luck here and there.
Prince EWS
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Yeah.. sometimes it takes longer than two and a half Tests though.
Zinzan
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Mainly.
wellAlbidarned
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definitely time for some santa
Zinzan
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I'd say 15-20% should be built in for any bowler for bad luck. It's rare bowlers get every half chance/close call translated to a wicket.
But even granting you Patel those 2 (which other bowlers don't get granted), he's still averaging over 40.
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Yup, Santa will offer a little more I'd say.
I am glad in a way we did give Patel this little comeback chance though. Saves us hearing about 'what could have been', had he not played again.
wellAlbidarned
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wags with another cheap declaration wicket
hendrix
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when the ball is hitting the stumps like that (2/3 of the ball smashing the stumps) I don't understand why it's "on field call". I thought that was less than 50%?
Goes along with the problem where if the ball is just missing, it shouldn't be overturned because the same confidence interval is not being applied.
Goes along with the problem where if the ball is just missing, it shouldn't be overturned because the same confidence interval is not being applied.