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KiwiRoo

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Didn't matter in the first test but in a team of 11 it's rare you can carry someone who doesn't do much with bat or ball - our actual "all-rounders" now are guys like Starc who are picked because they are the best choice in one skill and good enough to back up and contribute in others.

Anyway. If our actual bowlers can comeback out today in good form, they could still be enough.

Exactly right. Should only select an all rounder if one of his skills would get him selected on its own. The best all rounder's were those who were batsmen that bowled or bowlers that batted
eg
Kallis
Imran khan
Sobers
Hadlee
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Exactly right. Should only select an all rounder if one of his skills would get him selected on its own. The best all rounder's were those who were batsmen that bowled or bowlers that batted
eg
Kallis
Imran khan
Sobers
Hadlee
Kapil Dev
You just wanted to post the name Hadlee.
 

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It seems to me, Mitch Marsh almost always gets out trying to defend, when he is a natural attacker of bowling, either Test cricket is not for him, or just tell him to back himself and destroy bowlers confidence with some power hitting.
 

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Exactly right. Should only select an all rounder if one of his skills would get him selected on its own. The best all rounder's were those who were batsmen that bowled or bowlers that batted
eg
Kallis
Imran khan
Sobers
Hadlee
Kapil Dev
I reckon you can count the true all rounders, who would be picked for their batting if they couldn't bowl and vice versa, on one hand.

Miller
Sobers
Botham
Kallis
Maybe Kapil Dev
Flintoff at his best, but I feel like his best wasn't sustained enough.

The rest are bowlers capable of the odd good knock. Imran, Hadlee, Pollock, Cairns, Benaud, Gilmour wouldn't have got a game if they couldn't bowl.
 

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This has been a great test match and the final innings will be incredibly tense. I genuinely believe Australia have been the better team during this match and hope it all doesn't come down to that toss of the coin back on day 1.
 

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