Matthew Wade

[brisbane13]

Kamran Akmal is the Godwin's Law of wicketkeeping

didn't Akmal come under investigation for dropping catches for matchfixing?
Hartley reminded me of the victorian keeper Darren berry, who was considered to be the best glove man during his time, but his batting was often looked upon his weak point, but still did score several fc hundard's, but never got a go to play cricket at national level.

 

[tobsdad]

34 posts since 09 and you go and do this?

What's your point Gob?

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

34 posts since 09 and you go and do this?

Problem is, he's right (maybe not about Whiteman, who I've never seen so will reserve judgement on).
Wade was poor in the Australian summer. From what I saw he did better than I expected in Chennai, but was not good.

There are better glovemen around, but we are stuck with Wade for the remainder of the series so hopefully he gets it right in a hurry.

 

[Gak Attack]

Have to agree he looked very ordinary in the first test, dropped a lot of balls and you get the feeling with a better spinner and more chances he would of chalked up a few drops. With our spin stocks extremely low and given the conditions we really needed to send our best glovesman(Hartley) to make the most of every little opportunity. Wade was very poor as a keeper when he moved to Victoria and was told by both them and Tassie when he was there to give up the gloves and put everything into his batting, after ignoring that he did seem to improve up to the stage he was picked for Aus where I thought he was at least at a Haddin level(not the best but batting made up for it). However he seems to have regressed in the Aussie team, you would think the opposite would of happened with the extra people around to help him. At this stage whatever more he may make with the bat over the better keepers like Hartley, Paine or well anyone is in my opinion not more than he will cost us in missed wickets.

 

[Simple Jack]

However he seems to have regressed in the Aussie team.

This seems to happen alarmingly often.

 

[The Speaker]

This seems to happen alarmingly often.

Perhaps because it's international, rather than domestic.

 

[Underarm]

Have to agree he looked very ordinary in the first test, dropped a lot of balls and you get the feeling with a better spinner and more chances he would of chalked up a few drops. With our spin stocks extremely low and given the conditions we really needed to send our best glovesman(Hartley) to make the most of every little opportunity.

Lyon needs to be making chances for Wade to drop first. If he doesn't do that, whether wade catches the ball is arbitrary.
Wade did ok in the first test. He is not going anywhere. The hardest place to gain/lose in the Australian test side is Wicket Keeper, mainly because it is such an important role and relies alot on building relationships with the bowlers with experience, and that skill and form is very arbitrary and can't be judged on raw figures.

 

[Gak Attack]

Perhaps because it's international, rather than domestic.

In terms of batting and bowling it makes sense. In keeping and general fielding skills the opposite should be happening I would of thought.

 

[ajdude]

has a fractured cheekbone, CA reckon he should be right to play if there's no bruising/swelling overnight

 

[The_Reaper]

has a fractured cheekbone, CA reckon he should be right to play if there's no bruising/swelling overnight

Do we even have a reserve keeper in the squad?

Could we seriously end up selecting Hughes as our keeper?

 

[TassieEagle]

Do we even have a reserve keeper in the squad?

Could we seriously end up selecting Hughes as our keeper?

Hope like heck we bat first and hope to get to day two while Hartley/Paine fly over

It would seem in a huge touring squad that we would have a backup keeper.

 

[aussie1st]

Ah dam there goes the chance of SOK being sent over as they will send over a reserve keeper who should have been there from the start if you are picking such a massive squad.

 

[dan warna]

so the guy who batted with a fractured cheekbone and was the only substantive score besides the captain is wished out of the team ><
crikey, rough crew here.

 

[brisbane13]

Ah dam there goes the chance of SOK being sent over as they will send over a reserve keeper who should have been there from the start if you are picking such a massive squad.

SOK did nothing in the BBL & ryobi bup, has 17 wickets in the shield comp with 8 coming in one game. maybe that's why is isnt on the rader

Lyon needs to be making chances for Wade to drop first. If he doesn't do that, whether wade catches the ball is arbitrary.
Wade did ok in the first test. He is not going anywhere. The hardest place to gain/lose in the Australian test side is Wicket Keeper, mainly because it is such an important role and relies alot on building relationships with the bowlers with experience, and that skill and form is very arbitrary and can't be judged on raw figures.

we all know wade isnt the best keeper in the world & will drop his fair share of catches, but has any one been keeping an eye on Dhoni's keeping? its been average at best, specially yesterday continuously failing to cleanly take the ball from Sharma & Kumara

 

[JUBJUB]

we all know wade isnt the best keeper in the world & will drop his fair share of catches, but has any one been keeping an eye on Dhoni's keeping? its been average at best, specially yesterday continuously failing to cleanly take the ball from Sharma & Kumara

Mustn't be any Indians on this board.It's as though he's had Haddinitis.

 

[Caesar]

People who make matchwinning double centuries get forgiven for a lot.

*hint hint Wade*

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Mustn't be any Indians on this board.It's as though he's had Haddinitis.

I think I might have mentioned Dhoni's keeping a couple of times in the first session yesterday. "Sloppy" was one word.

Its not surprising that Australians focus on the Australians first though, and Wade has been poor all summer with the gloves. Any additional runs do not cover that loss.

 

[aussie1st]

SOK did nothing in the BBL & ryobi bup, has 17 wickets in the shield comp with 8 coming in one game. maybe that's why is isnt on the rader

And that is the logic which has us playing Doherty and Maxwell as spinners and why we are at our lowest point in 20 years.

 

[The Speaker]

And that is the logic which has us playing Doherty and Maxwell as spinners and why we are at our lowest point in 20 years.

Been and gone.

 

[aussie1st]

It's come but it sure as hell hasn't gone unless you count 47 all out as going up.

 

[The Speaker]

It's come but it sure as hell hasn't gone unless you count 47 all out as going up.

We are in a better state now that we were then.

We were a Faf away from being number one in the world only a few months back.

So much hyperbole about an India tour. Short memories.

 

[Mateyman]

We are in a better state now that we were then.

We were a Faf away from being number one in the world only a few months back.

So much hyperbole about an India tour. Short memories.

You're forgetting that when you take out all our good recent performances against good teams, we don't have many decent performances against good teams

 

[dan warna]

Thrashing the windians and lankans gave us a sense of security.
We aren't crap but we aren't quite in the league of where we were.

our batsman are adequate and our bowlers are either developing or solid.

People forget that Mcgrath, Warne and Gillespie are all time greats and the worst bowler in the line up were Lee, bichel, and Kasperwisc for various periods of time.

Under Waugh we had about 4 batsman averaging over 50 (hayden, punter, S.waugh Gillespie for much of his career). The worst batsman by return was mark waugh and the others were all mid 40s including BNG, lehmann, martyn amongst others.

I think our best home for resurgence comes from our fast bowling stocks. Would love to see a fit cummins and Pattinson serving chin music and swinging toe crunchers to the brits

 

[aussie1st]

We are in a better state now that we were then.

We were a Faf away from being number one in the world only a few months back.

So much hyperbole about an India tour. Short memories.

How exactly are we in better shape than we were in the Ashes? Pace attack I'll give you but our batting is miles behind where it was in the Ashes and we are no closer to finding a spinner.

 

[Caesar]

I don't think our batting is that bad really. Even in Chennai we put up respectable totals.