Australia v Sri Lanka; 2nd Test @ Manuka Oval Feb 1-5.

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Just let him make his ton ffs.

We will declare and wrap it up in 60 overs and be finished before Day 5 either way.

Time is not an issue.
I don't get why we wouldn't just allow the batsmen to stay out there. Any form that we can get with the bat right now is a good thing. Getting a big individual score after a lean summer will do Khawaja's confidence the world of good, too.
 

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I will say this about Head, he's only ever been dismissed in single figures once so far and it was his first innings of test cricket.

If he somehow manages to come out of England unscathed, we will have a legit gun middle order player who's only 25 years old.
 

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"Chanceless average" was a useless made-up statistic I thought of yesterday
Its not that useless, but would it include the whole innings or only up until the first chance offered?

e.g. if dropped on 5, dropped on 30, but score 210 before getting out; would that count as 5 and one chance, or 210 and three chances when calculating the average?
 

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My preferred made up statistic is balls faced per match. Shows the genuine test match players

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Seriously, that has value, but doesn't really tell us in isolation how well someone is actually scoring, though. You could just be eating up balls struggling to get it off the square.

Removing not outs from the equation and working out what someone really averages each innings gives us a clearer picture of someone's abilities, and removes false hype and exaggeration and small sample size theatre, eg. Adam Voges really averaged 47.90 runs per innings, rather than the 61.87 "traditional" not-out-boosted average.

I don't think it should replace the traditional average metric, but I think it should become a more readily available (without having to calculate it yourself, out of your own curiosity and interest) stat, along with balls faced per innings, and balls per boundary (in all formats).
 

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Its not that useless, but would it include the whole innings or only up until the first chance offered?

e.g. if dropped on 5, dropped on 30, but score 210 before getting out; would that count as 5 and one chance, or 210 and three chances when calculating the average?
Runs scored up until the first chance offered was my thinking
 
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The issue is that England know we'll just take our best 3 quicks in Australian conditions so they prepare pitches that suit Anderson and Broad (and our attack is blunted). Rather then adapting and mixing it up with at least a couple of bowlers that will be suitable, we're too scared to drop one of them and like last time, wait until a dead rubber before trying someone different like Siddle.

We can prepare all we look with Aus A vs Aus games over there but if we aren't prepared to make the hard calls to get the most suitable team on the park it's not going to matter.
We need to take Worrall and Pattinson. I’ve got no issue rolling with Richardson, Cummins and Starc. Hazelwood I am over.
 

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I will say this about Head, he's only ever been dismissed in single figures once so far and it was his first innings of test cricket.

If he somehow manages to come out of England unscathed, we will have a legit gun middle order player who's only 25 years old.
Head has suffered a bit from the South Aussies are shit partial truism held by many in Australian cricket.
 
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