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Hall of Famer
Adam Dale.
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Adam Dale.
Undervalued as a cricketer, highly valued as a basketballer.Damian Martin from the same era rings to mine.
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Is Justin Langer undervalued?
He had a bloke called Hayden as an opening partner while a guy called Ponting followed him at 3.
Damian Martin from the same era rings to mine. Statistically in the top 10 batsmen of the modern era for Australia.
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Martyn had a knack for tough runs that didn’t fit the ‘talented but not dedicated’ narrative that surrounded his early career.
Superb player and simply amazing to watch
Hard to imagine anyone copping it more for a bad shot as a young cricketer than Martyn against SA. Plus it's not like anyone else were making runs either, they barely made 100.
He was batting with McDermott and scared to play a shot, that McDermott virtually had to do bulk of scoring himself.Hard to imagine anyone copping it more for a bad shot as a young cricketer than Martyn against SA. Plus it's not like anyone else were making runs either, they barely made 100.
He was batting with McDermott and scared to play a shot, that McDermott virtually had to do bulk of scoring himself.
Vinnige Fannie never bowled better than that day
I saw him play a domestic one dayer under lights in Jo'burg one time and he was swinging the ball round corners.I must admit I thought he was a bit average before that (well you may look average next to Donald), but that was unbelievable.
Just looking at the scorecard now, Donald still got three and they were M Waugh, Border and Martyn. Sorry I should mention that Martyn wicket shouldn't count of course, he more or less kicked his own stumps over apparently.
Nah, the point is about Martyn copping deserved s**t is he last specialist bat and was not willing to take on the job of being the main scorer in that partnership. Basically McDermott had to do all the work himself. Just as he almost incredibly did a miracle, Martyn all of a sudden plays about the only attacking shot he tried in a long time and hit the ******* ball straight to cover fielding leaving poor Billy high and dry with bloody McGrath the last man in, FFS!!!And that would be the point, why was McDermott in and not one of the other recognised batsmen?
Was inspired spell. He opened up the chance for South Africa and Martyn sealed our fate just when Billy almost incredibly got us out of it.Vinnige Fannie never bowled better than that day
Nah, the point is about Martyn copping deserved sh*t is he last specialist bat and was not willing to take on the job of being the main scorer in that partnership. Basically McDermott had to do all the work himself. Just as he almost incredibly did a miracle, Martyn all of a sudden plays about the only attacking shot he tried in a long time and hit the ******* ball straight to cover fielding leaving poor Billy high and dry with bloody McGrath the last man in, FFS!!!
I do not think it was unfair at all.Clearly he didn't bat well, I take your point. But he unfairly copped it
Nah, the point is about Martyn copping deserved sh*t is he last specialist bat and was not willing to take on the job of being the main scorer in that partnership. Basically McDermott had to do all the work himself. Just as he almost incredibly did a miracle, Martyn all of a sudden plays about the only attacking shot he tried in a long time and hit the ******* ball straight to cover fielding leaving poor Billy high and dry with bloody McGrath the last man in, FFS!!!
I do not think it was unfair at all.
He failed in his role big time when most needed. At that point in time banished from team was what he deserved.
Kudos to him for getting back years later and have a much better later part of his career.
Spare me the T20 nonsense. This was Test cricket which i value highly on getting in team. He had no right staying in team on back of that s**t showing in crucial moment. Having watched it live my anger was white hot at time and deserved what he gotNo it wasn’t.
imagine - not that it’s a test but still - if England banished Ben Stokes for being hit for four sixes by Carlos Brathwaite.
Spare me the T20 nonsense. This was Test cricket which i value highly on getting in team. He had no right staying in team on back of that sh*t showing in crucial moment. Having watched it live my anger was white hot at time and deserved what he got