Sam Konstas: Are you on board with him?

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[Swanny69]

Casual fans are all about that sweet career average though. Score a triple ton in your first Test and the Australian setup will carry you in the Test team for at least a decade even if you never pass 50 again.

Or if you just look the part ie. “dream team complex” .. its not all about being young, 6’6”, athletic looking but I’m sure someone like Buck Rogers was starting from a long way further back and had less house money day 1

 

[Rabish Binney]

19 years old.

The media has basically ruined him. They’ve salivated over the debut and the narrative was that that would be rule, not the exception. The punters have followed the media and formed their opinions. Inevitable.

Probably won’t peak at test level until much later. We will see the best of him at 23-24 onwards.

How many 19 year old kids are facing Bumrah on debut? The same Bumrah that Ponting, yes the Ricky variety, said could be the best.

The kid can play. It’s ok to fail and get found out for a while.

McSweeney. Picked to open even though he is not an opener.

The cricket public torched him.

 

[Rabish Binney]

It was one bad test he had. 1 and was hardly on his own.
Everyone needs to chill. He earnt his call up last year with a solid debut.
Recalled after an absence. At least give him the series. Then if he needs to work on his game by all means he is young enough to come back.
Ponting s Waugh Martin were all selected round his age dropped and came back better.
He seems confused at the approach to take.
He had a unconventional yet successful approach boxing day everyone lost their shit so is now confused how to play. Went too defensive this test. And was hesitant.
Let's see how he goes next 2

No such leeway given to McSweeney?

 

[jannissary]

McSweeney. Picked to open even though he is not an opener.

The cricket public torched him.

bitter irony in that. the pass is given to konstas (young, playing in position, with a single innings of note and otherwise little impact on tests) vs. someone playing out of position

 

[Run n Spread]

No such leeway given to McSweeney?

Nope. But why compound 1 mistake with another.
I'd drop Green and give Mcsweeny a go at 3. Isn't he in England playing? Fly him over and get him in the side.
Khawajas position also shaky.
Bancroft Patterson and maybe Hunt could be in the hunt for Ashes.
Konstas should be given another test but he needs to produce a ton or possibly 2 50s in next 3 innings to be retained.

 

[corbies]

Nope. But why compound 1 mistake with another.
I'd drop Green and give Mcsweeny a go at 3. Isn't he in England playing? Fly him over and get him in the side.
Khawajas position also shaky.
Bancroft Patterson and maybe Hunt could be in the hunt for Ashes.
Konstas should be given another test but he needs to produce a ton or possibly 2 50s in next 3 innings to be retained.

No. He's about to go into bat in Darwin against Sri Lanka A.

 

[Run n Spread]

No. He's about to go into bat in Darwin against Sri Lanka A.

Wonder how he is with jet-lag

 

[dogs105]

No. He's about to go into bat in Darwin against Sri Lanka A.

How'd he go?

 

[ioppolo]

How'd he go?

85* off 63

 

[Retzlaff]

Or if you just look the part ie. “dream team complex” .. its not all about being young, 6’6”, athletic looking but I’m sure someone like Buck Rogers was starting from a long way further back and had less house money day 1

Buck wasn’t 6’6”, but had 12”. Very important for dressing room cred

 

[Kappa]

Mentally he is completely cooked and the selectors have seriously damaged their reputations by constantly picking him.

Finished at test level for a while until he puts in an elite shield season

 

[Westend]

Stick with him

 

[Redline]

In any other era I'd drop him but I would give him the 3rd test. He needs some shield cricket though.

I would drop Khawaja before Konstas

 

[Sea fog]

We need youngsters coming through but he was over-hyped.

 

[ioppolo]

We need youngsters coming through but he was over-hyped.

Was always going to happen after what he did to Bumrah.

 

[Black Diamond]

The dropped catch in the slips and subsequent LBW dismissal today are both linked to the split grip.

 

[sherb]

We need youngsters coming through but he was over-hyped.

The way the media blew the smoke up his arse didn't help him one bit.

 

[Black Diamond]

The way the media blew the smoke up his arse didn't help him one bit.

Every time I see him it gets harder to believe he scored two centuries in a Shield match.

 

[Freezin]

The way this match is going, Aust could begin their 2nd innings under lights on day 2, not ideal for the young fella and his current woes. Be nice if Uzzie could take some heat off Konstas, by batting with a tad more urgency, taking the Uzzie slowproach, probably forces Konstas into pushing harder sooner for runs......on a hiding to nothing me thinks for the young fella.

 

[iDon]

Any believers think he should be here test 1 ashes still ?

 

[BarneyBent]

I'm on board in the medium-long term, but atm he's reminding me of when we kept selecting Smith at 7 while he was horribly out of form.

Let him go back to the Shield, work on his game, peel off a bunch of tons and bring him back once he's in form.

 

[Rabish Binney]

Every time I see him it gets harder to believe he scored two centuries in a Shield match.

That 60 he got against India - he could have been out 3 times in the first over.

Papered over some cracks I would think

 

[Lia]

Will be dropped pretty quickly and will come back 3-5 years later with more experience, and will be a player from then on.

Sticking with this for Sam, back to the Shield and some County Championship if he can get a gig and hone his craft.

 

[Cmarsh]

Any believers think he should be here test 1 ashes still ?

My prediction is he will be dropped, then score decent runs in the Shield before being picked as opener for the first Ashes test.