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Trescothick is overated.

marc71178

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Eclipse said:
Do you really think he would make the Australian team?
I didn't say that. I asked if you would bring this up if he were an Aussie with those stats. I don't think you would've done.


Eclipse said:
Any way I am happy for him I have nothing against him at all I just though it would be a good topic to bring up considering he had really been struggeling at the time.
I wouldn't have said he was really struggling before this game anyway. He wasn't in the greatest of touch, but he'd got 2 previous half centuries in the series and was consistently getting a start at the top of the order (into double figures 25 of the last 33 innings)
 

gibbsnsmith

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Re: Re: What the hell

Craig said:
How much of cricket do you know of? From what I have read, not a lot.
how the hell do you show sarcasm in text, well except using "[!]" but that kinda sucks
 

Mr Mxyzptlk

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Craig said:
If he does, I will change my name to Buddhika Fernado (my user name on cricket web).
Lol. This should be fun.
Originally posted by masterblaster
So he can score 200 runs and take 10 wickets against the Kiwis.
Notice he never said "in one Test" and he also never said "in Tests (or ODI alone)" therefore AA technically has all series to score a total of 200 runs and take a total of 10 wickets. ;)

Buddhika has a nice ring to it...
 
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Neil Pickup

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Mr Mxyzptlk said:
Lol. This should be fun.

Notice he never said "in one Test" and he also never said "in Tests (or ODI alone)" therefore AA technically has all series to score a total of 200 runs and take a total of 10 wickets. ;)

Buddhika has a nice ring to it...
You still think he'll make that?!
 

Eclipse

International Debutant
marc71178 said:
I didn't say that. I asked if you would bring this up if he were an Aussie with those stats. I don't think you would've done.
Why not I brough up a topic like this on about Brett Lee or did you forget that ??

I wouldn't have said he was really struggling before this game anyway. He wasn't in the greatest of touch, but he'd got 2 previous half centuries in the series and was consistently getting a start at the top of the order (into double figures 25 of the last 33 innings)
Depend's witch way you look at it and I looked at his last 10 matches and at the time of the post he had just 3 50's and an avrage of 29 in those matches.
 
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Tim

Cricketer Of The Year
Nah..Trescothicks innings was on a road against a fairly weak bowling attack so IMO it wasn't that big a deal.

sorry I was just replying from when Marc said Stephen Fleming's 274 in Sri Lanka wasn't that big a deal because the Sri Lankan attack was poor.
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
Tim said:
sorry I was just replying from when Marc said Stephen Fleming's 274 in Sri Lanka wasn't that big a deal because the Sri Lankan attack was poor.
I think the only time I've mentioned that the SL attack is poor is when discussing Lara at home a couple of months earlier?
 

Tim

Cricketer Of The Year
The Sri Lankan attack is pretty much equal to that of the Sri Lankan attack at the moment with Pollock & Ntini equalling out Vaas & Murali.
 

Neil Pickup

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Pollock and Ntini = Vaas and Murali... just about

Kallis, Hall and Adams vs Fernando, Zoysa and Dharmasena is another story entirely however.
 

Anna

International Vice-Captain
Well, Trescothick is my Godmother's sister-in-law's cousin so I think of him as family (laughs at self - that sounds stupid, but hey? :lol: ). He may be inconsistent but, using the words of Simon Barnes in The Times this morning, I'd rather he were inconsistant than consistantly bad. And he plays for Somerset (who are dire, but I have to remain loyal!). Oh well. I just hope he takes his form from the 5th Test match into the tours this winter.
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
Tim said:
The Sri Lankan attack is pretty much equal to that of the Sri Lankan attack at the moment with Pollock & Ntini equalling out Vaas & Murali.
Assuming you mean SL vs. SA, I'd still disagree.

Murali is a one off, but Pollock is just as effective, and Ntini is a far superior bowler to Vaas.

Then you look at back up (as Neil pointed out) and it's no contest!
 

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marc71178 said:
Then you look at back up (as Neil pointed out) and it's no contest!
I beg to differ. They both have a very similar average but Vaas is more economical. Also, Vaas get the ball to swing quite prodigiously at times. I would put Vaas and Ntini on the same level.
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
Misquote perchance?


Seriously I think Vaas gets the volume of wickets he does because there's no seamer in SL to support him (think Heath Streak)
 

Mr Mxyzptlk

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marc71178 said:
Misquote perchance?


Seriously I think Vaas gets the volume of wickets he does because there's no seamer in SL to support him (think Heath Streak)
But in that case it's totally hypothetical, so we will never know unless Pollock and Hall retire effective immediately. :D
 

Tim

Cricketer Of The Year
Honestly are Hall & Adams that great? no..they're in & out of the South African side all the time.

Lets not forget that Jayasuriya is rated as one of the best all-rounders in the world..he seems to do the trick with his bowling so I still think both attacks are fairly even right now.
 

marc71178

Eyes not spreadsheets
Come off it Tim.

The Sri Lankan back up to Vaas and Murali just doesn't exist.

SA have the likes of Adams, Hall, Kallis, not to mention Hayward, Pretorius, Zondeki etc.

All of those would walk into the SL line up ahead of the current crop.
 

Tim

Cricketer Of The Year
Zondeki, Pretorious, Hall, Adams etc..all of who you were rubbishing before the Eng/S.A series..
 

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