Jarquis
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Take 6 wickets.
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slippyslip
U19 12th Man
You're impressed by 4 wickets @ 44? People are giving Johnson a bagging yet the guy managed 20 wickets @ 32.55.
Strauss 8.5
Cook 5. Would have looked a lot worse if Strauss didnt have such a strong series
Bopara 2
Bell 5.5 1st innings at the Oval was vital for England.
Collingwood. 5
Flintoff 6
Prior 7. I think he was solid behind the stumps*
Pietersen. 5.5. Head wasnt in the right place.Amateurish dismissal
Trott 7.5 About as high a rating you can give someone who played just one test
Broad 8. Bowling was weak first 3 matches but batted well and finished strongly.
Swann 7. Played well when England needed a spinner. Handy runs earns him a 7
Anderson 5.5 If the ball wasnt swinging was nothing but a stock bowler
Onions 6.5 Maybe unlucky to miss out on the Oval.
Harmison 5.5. Bland and boring as usual.
Panesar 3
Australia
Hughes. 4.5. Inexperience and found out but will learn from it is (hopefully)
Katich. 7. You can criticise him for not going on with it but a consistent opener is very handy.
Watson 7. Combined well with Katich.No collapse was their fault.
Ponting 7.5. Fell short of greatness
Clarke 8.5. Would have been 9 or 9.5 except for his failures at the Oval
Hussey. 5
North 6.5. Only scored runs when Australia was already on top.Failed in 2nd and 5th tests
Haddin 6.5.
Johnson 6. Bowled badly a lot of the time but still wickets.But wickets are wickets.
Siddle 6.5
Hilfenhaus 8.
Hauritz 6.5. Could have been 7 or 7.5 if he was picked for the 5th test.
S. Clark. 4.5. One good spell. Should have been dropped for Hauritz for the Oval.
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
Mindless reliance on bowling averages isn't enough.
At Headingley, Australia won the game on the first morning, and Clark's bowling was instrumental in that. England went to lunch at 72-6. Clark's figures were 7-4-7-3. He was absolutely outstanding.
His figures were dented in the 2nd innings when Broad, Swann and Harmison, with the pressure completely off, thrashed around and scored 56 irrelevant runs off his bowling. Without those, his series average (for what it's worth) would have been 30 and not 44.
He didn't have a great game at the Oval in conditions generally considered to be unfavourable to his style of bowling (as it happens, I thought the conditions ought to have suited him and I'm surprised he didn't take more wickets). But to suggest that this justifies a series rating of 2 is ridiculously unfair on a bowler who played a leading part in Australia's only win in the series.
Son Of Coco
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
It's saying something isn't it!
Son Of Coco
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
People keep saying this, I really don't think it's true. You could say that for nearly every bat to come after the openers in that case, as we collapsed twice.
What about his innings with Clarke to take us safely to the draw? What about his innings to get us a long way in front in the 4th test?
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
Agreed.
There was a thread a few weeks back about whether you'd rather have a player who made 40 in every innings or one who made 4 scores of 100 and 6 ducks in every 10 innings. People generally said they preferred the latter. There's an element of that in North, though, and he gets criticised for it. Unfairly, imo - he scored runs that hurt England this series; and he's a good player to watch too.
slippyslip
U19 12th Man
Right. Because England were powering on and dominating the Australian bowlers up to the point Clark started to bowl? Clearly it was impossible for Australia to win that game at all without Clark's Three wickets.
Three wickets
Three
3
Never in the history of cricket has three wickets been so overrated.
He got smashed. Smashed is smashed. Or should the record books put an * next to his 2nd innings performance saying "This performance (or lack thereof) doesnt count because "the pressure was off"? There was no pressure on Australia. The game was already won.
England had the brains to drop Onions (would have been better to drop Andersen), a similar style bowler to Clark and bring in Swann, even though Onion's series figures were far far superior to Swann's. Australia, still stuck in the 1960's thinking when it comes to selecting a professional sporting team, decided to stick "with a winning team" regardless of the evidence at hand.
England won.
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slippyslip
U19 12th Man
I didnt say he played badly. Just that he never made runs under a lot of pressure like Hussey did at the Oval.
And by the time North made those runs at Edgbaston the game was already heading to a draw. Only the most optimistic English fans thought they had a chance of winning.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
He was by far and away the pick of the bowlers in that 102ao. It's impossible to say what would have happened without that spell; sure we'd have still collapsed, but probably for a few more runs.
The fact that he wasn't up to much from the next innings onwards isn't really up for debate, but that spell alone should see him above a 2, the same way Flintoff and Anderson get 5/6
sort of ratings because althoguh they were largely quiet, they did turn in matchwinning performances at Lord's/
zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
In case you're having some kind of difficulty reading what's been written in this thread, no-one's actually said anything of the sort. What is being said by DCYE, GIMH and me is that a rating of 2 is ridiculously unfair on him. As you seem to accept yourself, since you've given him 4.5. Australia may well have won without him, but as Son of Coco put it, Clark put Australia in a winning position.
That's my point about blind reliance on bowling averages: they don't tell the whole story and can easily mislead the ignorant.
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Son Of Coco
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
The pressure of knowing you're going to get thrashed?
slippyslip
U19 12th Man
Australia were already in a strong position before Clark bowled his first ball. And it wouldnt have mattered if Clark played or not. Australia were always going to win that test.
England were 3 for 42 when Clark took his first wicket.
Obviously England were smashing Australia and without Clark's THREE wickets we would have lost that test.
Three for forty-two
Three wickets
Big, fat, stinking deal. Instead of winning of winning by an innings an 80 runs Australia might have only won by 10 or 9 wickets and had to bat again. What a disaster. I'm glad Clark was tehre to save Australia with his THREE wickets.
I mean Siddle cleaning up the tail, something Australia failed to do in 4/5 matches had nothing to do with. People go on about Clark's THREE wickets more than Siddle's five. Yeah, 4/5 wickets were tail enders. Someone remind me how the English tail performed at Cardiff please.
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zaremba
Cricketer Of The Year
You still seem to be conducting a lone tilt at the "Australia would have lost without Clark" windmill. Enjoy it!
Anyhow, think about the 2nd innings at the Oval - England 3 down for bugger all - Australia could have done with THREE more quick wickets at that stage, don't you think?
Anyhow, think about the 2nd innings at the Oval - England 3 down for bugger all - Australia could have done with THREE more quick wickets at that stage, don't you think?
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hitmanpaul
Cricket Spectator
matt prior only 5/10?!!!