Retirements That Hurt

[OverratedSanity]

We still haven't replaced Ganguly-

 

[Furball]

Yeah I guess I considered him replaced because your new middle order - Pujara-Kohli-Rahane-Rohit - has been fairly stable (in terms of the lineup not being constantly chopped and changed) hasn't it, even if Rohit's output has been pretty garbage.

 

[Daemon]

If we play a test match tomorrow I'm confident Rohit won't be at 6.

However, the fact that we don't play Tests for a long time makes me think they'll forget how poo he was and stick him in anyways.

 

[Captain_Cook]

Jonathan Trott's downfall after the Gabba hurt England in the short term. I reckon Sri Lanka wouldn't have beaten us at home if Trott had been there to plunder their mediocre pace attack at #3.

 

[Pothas]

Ballance actually replaced Trott really well initially.

 

[Athlai]

Steve Tikolo

 

[Athlai]

Steve Tikolo

Hurt so bad they recalled him from retirement when he was 41 a couple years later.

 

[Athlai]

Hurt so bad they recalled him from retirement when he was 41 a couple years later.

Though TBF to Kenya, the recall was totally justified when he top scored AND took the most wickets for them in the T20 WC Qualifier tournament 13/14.

 

[Immenso]

Surely John Wright and Bruce Edgar tops this. Well John Wright mostly as T Franklin plugged an Edgar sized home until Wright retired.

Since then we've never had a good opening combination, and only about 3 good individual openers in 20 something years since Wright, 30 years since Edgar.

 

[StephenZA]

Hugh Tayfield

Still haven`t found a decent spinner to replace him....

 

[Shady Slim]

brett lee from a finale match perspective

he had just bowls two dots (wickets) when there were tied scores and had the third set before henriques choked hard, i felt so sorry for him

 

[Furball]

If we play a test match tomorrow I'm confident Rohit won't be at 6.

However, the fact that we don't play Tests for a long time makes me think they'll forget how poo he was and stick him in anyways.

I actually reckon Sharma will come good if he's persisted with, 6 is a pretty specialist position.

You wouldn't bat Ben Stokes at 3, so I don't get why teams bat number 3 bats at 6.

 

[Burgey]

Ryan Harris retiring just before the last Ashes left a massive hole in Australia's attack.

 

[Pratters]

Retirements that didn't hurt - SRT, Healy.

 

[cnerd123]

I actually reckon Sharma will come good if he's persisted with, 6 is a pretty specialist position.

You wouldn't bat Ben Stokes at 3, so I don't get why teams bat number 3 bats at 6.

A lot of really good top 4 batsmen in the history of the game got their starts at 6 and did well enough to justify being promoted. 5 and 6 are relatively 'softer' spots in a batting lineup, usually because you get to walk in against a softer ball and more tired bowlers. There are things like reverse swing, second new ball, and batting with the tail to deal with, but tbf any decent top 4 batsman needs to be equally good at all of that, plus being prepared to set a platform against fresh bowlers and a newer ball. I think generally batsmen who do well in the Top 4 would do well at 6, but that wouldn't apply the other way around.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Shane Bond
Brendon McCullum
Michael Clarke
Brian Lara
Allan Donald (I know he was on a decline but still I felt really bad seeing him go)
Shoaib Akhtar

 

[Gnske]

Shane Watson, hurts even more knowing his time is nearly up in ODIs and t20s

 

[OverratedSanity]

Retirements that didn't hurt - SRT, Healy.

SRT retiring didn't really hurt the team much but it definitely hurt me. Him, Dravid, VVS, Sehwag all leaving within that span of a year was hard to take as a fan

 

[harsh.ag]

Honestly VVS's was worse. Seemed like the ideal sort of guy to marshal our lower order till 2016.

 

[Pratters]

SRT retiring didn't really hurt the team much but it definitely hurt me. Him, Dravid, VVS, Sehwag all leaving within that span of a year was hard to take as a fan

Yeah..