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***Official*** Super Series
- Thread starter Toecrusher
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Geraint Jones only let 4 byes through when Lara scored 400, and that was off the last ball of the innings. A feature of massive scores is that not many balls actually go through to the keeper.Woody_cloudofsm said:
Obviously Afridi should be the supersub rather than Pietersen. Especially if he's going to bat no6/7.
aussie
Hall of Fame Member
1. Its debatable whether Gayle should of been in over Viro but i agree with Sehwag's decision personally in the ODI sqaud as wellWoody_cloudofsm said:
2. That test side u picked their looks strong but i disagree because its on batsman too many plus having Dravid opening is a bit weird.......
Magrat Garlick
Rather Mad Witch
Hussey has played 10 innings, actually. Though he needs to average 63.4 in the next five to keep his average above Pietersen's.Woody_cloudofsm said:
marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
In ODI Cricket that is very very debateable.
Actually, looking at the stats, it's not even debateable.
Amazingly both have played 121 ODI's, batted 118 times and been not out 6 times.
That's where the similarity ends.
Gayle has 4362 runs against 3581, he has 34 50+ scores against 24 and 11 tons against 7.
Admittedly neither are that good against Australia, but he still has 303 @ 30.30 compared with 270 @ 24.54.
It's a no brainer decision, but the selectors appear to have no brain.
Actually, looking at the stats, it's not even debateable.
Amazingly both have played 121 ODI's, batted 118 times and been not out 6 times.
That's where the similarity ends.
Gayle has 4362 runs against 3581, he has 34 50+ scores against 24 and 11 tons against 7.
Admittedly neither are that good against Australia, but he still has 303 @ 30.30 compared with 270 @ 24.54.
It's a no brainer decision, but the selectors appear to have no brain.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
My two major gripes are mainly Kumble and Sangakkara not making the team. Now the Sangakkara decision was always on the cards with him not being selected for the test squad in the first place, but Kumble? That came out of left-field, and I'm a huge Vettori fan. But IMO Kumble's past 2-3 years, overall and against Australia warrant an automatic selection without question. Vettori's batting would be handy, but when you have the likes of Sehwag, Dravid, Lara, Flintoff etc. etc.in your batting line up, the batting ability of the strike bowlers shouldn't be a big issue at all, certainly not a deciding factor between Kumble and Vettori.
Another thought of mine was having Vaughan open the batting, and take on captaincy. I'm sure there will be a real argument for this if he goes on to lead England to an Ashes series win. I am a big fan of Smith's, and often defend him on this board but Vaughan's record against Australia (especially in Australia) and his great captaincy had me hoping he'd be in there, but I'm not that fussed. Like I said, big fan of Smith and it'll be interesting to see how he bats alongside Sehwag.
Inzy, Vaas, Gayle and Dravid not making the ODI team is a quite disappointing as well. I would definitely of had them in my final 14, with Gayle and Inzy definites.
Another thought of mine was having Vaughan open the batting, and take on captaincy. I'm sure there will be a real argument for this if he goes on to lead England to an Ashes series win. I am a big fan of Smith's, and often defend him on this board but Vaughan's record against Australia (especially in Australia) and his great captaincy had me hoping he'd be in there, but I'm not that fussed. Like I said, big fan of Smith and it'll be interesting to see how he bats alongside Sehwag.
Inzy, Vaas, Gayle and Dravid not making the ODI team is a quite disappointing as well. I would definitely of had them in my final 14, with Gayle and Inzy definites.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
You're not alone.aussie said:ok you win, but i just rather sehwag......
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/story/216822.html
Sehwag was extremely popular in the cricinfo poll for the ODI team. He beat Tendulkar, Lara, Kallis and Inzy, only falling behind Flintoff in 1st place and Murali in 2nd.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
The bottomline is that Kumble has done better than Vettori in the past 12 months against Australia both home and away and therefore, he deserves to be there ahead of Vettori in the books of anyone who actually knows how to select a side.shaka said: