Sam Konstas: Are you on board with him?

[PhatBoy]

I really do love your work mate.

Back at you brother

 

[pebblesofsand]

Entertaining but not sustainable so I'll reserve judgement for the moment.

Sam Konstas vs Yashasvi Jaiswal - Players Comparison

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[sr36]

Entertaining but not sustainable so I'll reserve judgement for the moment.

Sam Konstas vs Yashasvi Jaiswal - Players Comparison

Compare Sam Konstas & Yashasvi Jaiswal - Stats, Achievements, Performance. Who excels in batting, bowling, fielding, and more

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Jaiswal is the brightest young batting star in the world - by a big margin. He's on a fast track to greatness. A comparison with him is a bit silly.

 

[PhatBoy]

Jaiswal is the brightest young batting star in the world - by a big margin. He's on a fast track to greatness. A comparison with him is a bit silly.

Agreed but I reckon there’s a young bloke from England* who won’t be far behind him soon which I didn’t think I’d be saying after looking at his barely believably ordinary domestic numbers before his test debut


*Barbados

 

[cats_09]

Agreed but I reckon there’s a young bloke from England* who won’t be far behind him soon which I didn’t think I’d be saying after looking at his barely believably ordinary domestic numbers before his test debut


*Barbados

Would this happen to be one young Jacob who finally put it together in his final BBL game

 

[sr36]

Would this happen to be one young Jacob who finally put it together in his final BBL game

I assumed Harry Brook.

 

[cats_09]

I assumed Harry Brook.

Except that Brook isn't from Barbados

 

[sr36]

Except that Brook isn't from Barbados

Good point. I didn't pick up the asterisk.

 

[PhatBoy]

Good point. I didn't pick up the asterisk.

And isn’t THAT young anymore. I mean he’s still young but 25 compared to Jaiswal who’s what, 21 or something.

 

[PhatBoy]

Would this happen to be one young Jacob who finally put it together in his final BBL game

He did ok in 3-4 of the junk league games

 

[cats_09]

He did ok in 3-4 of the junk league games

He had some good starts, but that last match he really showed how damaging he can be

Bring on The Ashes

 

[Bedi]

I voted tone it down, but more so his fielding than batting. His antics from him in Melbourne were as aggressive as i've seen. Walking in each and every ball from square leg to berate the batsman definitely achieved its goal in getting under the opposition's skin. And this is a 19 year old on debut ffs. I guess it's pretty funny i suppose, but yeah prob needs to reign it in a bit. If he keeps it up he's going to be very disliked among opposition players and fans, so hopefully he has a thick skin. Which from the two games so far – both which he's created headlines – it looks like he does.

 

[sabso]

Sammy K has taken on a role like a duck to water and should be a lock for the ashes. England are going to keep chucking gimmicky fast bowlers into tests over the coming year in addition to praying for archer/wood/stone/tongue to be fit, so they won’t have a set bowling unit and konstas can get in their faces. He’ll be given out to the spinners second ball but it’ll get overturned on drs and he’ll twat the spinner for a good 30-40 runs in 20 balls.

Keep faith in him if only as an ashes instigator.

 

[PhatBoy]

Sammy K has taken on a role like a duck to water and should be a lock for the ashes. England are going to keep chucking gimmicky fast bowlers into tests over the coming year in addition to praying for archer/wood/stone/tongue to be fit, so they won’t have a set bowling unit and konstas can get in their faces. He’ll be given out to the spinners second ball but it’ll get overturned on drs and he’ll twat the spinner for a good 30-40 runs in 20 balls.

Keep faith in him if only as an ashes instigator.

Honestly I thought Carse was going to live up to 80 per cent of his name but he was fantastic in NZ and Atkinson has a great combination of skill and mongrel; I think they have the genesis of a really good combination there. If you put a fit Wood into that mix that’s a dangerous group.

It’s a long shot now but if Stokes was ever at full fitness as a back up seamer and you started picking a proper spinner it would give you a small chance of winning out here

 

[sr36]

Honestly I thought Carse was going to live up to 80 per cent of his name but he was fantastic in NZ and Atkinson has a great combination of skill and mongrel; I think they have the genesis of a really good combination there. If you put a fit Wood into that mix that’s a dangerous group.

It’s a long shot now but if Stokes was ever at full fitness as a back up seamer and you started picking a proper spinner it would give you a small chance of winning out here

THey've got a really exciting group with both bat and ball - need one of the express bowlers to get on the park though.

 

[Voice of the G]

I voted tone it down, but more so his fielding than batting. His antics from him in Melbourne were as aggressive as i've seen. Walking in each and every ball from square leg to berate the batsman definitely achieved its goal in getting under the opposition's skin. And this is a 19 year old on debut ffs. I guess it's pretty funny i suppose, but yeah prob needs to reign it in a bit. If he keeps it up he's going to be very disliked among opposition players and fans, so hopefully he has a thick skin. Which from the two games so far – both which he's created headlines – it looks like he does.

Not sure Konstas when fielding was walking in to berate the batsman,perhaps you have gone a little overboard with that comment.Where he has got under their skin is the way he batted especially day 1 Melbourne where he was prepared to take Bumrah on with aggressive shots.

 

[PhatBoy]

THey've got a really exciting group with both bat and ball - need one of the express bowlers to get on the park though.

100 per cent.

If Australia turned out the pitches they did this summer maybe they could get away with the attack they have at the moment without Wood or Archer etc and with maybe a Robinson or Potts as the third seamer behind Atkinson and Carse but if they reverted closer to the norm pitch wise I don’t think they could. Wood is such an x-factor at his best and although he just isn’t capable of a long burst you know that if you toss him the ball he is going to give you his absolute maximum for whatever length of time he can. I don’t imagine a still-out-of touch Khawaja or Marnus etc would fancy it much.

 

[sabso]

100 per cent.

If Australia turned out the pitches they did this summer maybe they could get away with the attack they have at the moment without Wood or Archer etc and with maybe a Robinson or Potts as the third seamer behind Atkinson and Carse but if they reverted closer to the norm pitch wise I don’t think they could. Wood is such an x-factor at his best and although he just isn’t capable of a long burst you know that if you toss him the ball he is going to give you his absolute maximum for whatever length of time he can. I don’t imagine a still-out-of touch Khawaja or Marnus etc would fancy it much.

Khawaja and marnus might be out of touch next year but you’d almost guarantee they’d each put together a match-defining innings at least

Smudge will be massive as he always is against the country he could have qualified to play for once upon a time and would have got a single game as a leggie/no 9 at the end of a losing ashes.

Sam can get comfortable in this line up.

 

[Bedi]

Not sure Konstas when fielding was walking in to berate the batsman,perhaps you have gone a little overboard with that comment.Where he has got under their skin is the way he batted especially day 1 Melbourne where he was prepared to take Bumrah on with aggressive shots.

That too, but I watched him very carefully at the ground and he did it every single ball. Commentators on ABC mentioned it too. He is a pest, there's no two ways about it, but characters are good for the game.

 

[sr36]

100 per cent.

If Australia turned out the pitches they did this summer maybe they could get away with the attack they have at the moment without Wood or Archer etc and with maybe a Robinson or Potts as the third seamer behind Atkinson and Carse but if they reverted closer to the norm pitch wise I don’t think they could. Wood is such an x-factor at his best and although he just isn’t capable of a long burst you know that if you toss him the ball he is going to give you his absolute maximum for whatever length of time he can. I don’t imagine a still-out-of touch Khawaja or Marnus etc would fancy it much.

I think we'll be in trouble if they serve up the Indian pitches, but win comfortably if they serve up more traditional Aussie pitches.

 

[Voice of the G]

That too, but I watched him very carefully at the ground and he did it every single ball. Commentators on ABC mentioned it too. He is a pest, there's no two ways about it, but characters are good for the game.

Fair call,you were at the ground I watched on TV.Needs to get that out of his game,Labuschange is bad enough with that nonsense.

As for Konstas from memory when he got the ton for Australia A against India A it seems he got a bit of verbal stuff from the Indian fieldsman,perhaps he has fallen for the trap of returning it back.Best he ignores.

 

[jannissary]

I voted tone it down, but more so his fielding than batting. His antics from him in Melbourne were as aggressive as i've seen. Walking in each and every ball from square leg to berate the batsman definitely achieved its goal in getting under the opposition's skin. And this is a 19 year old on debut ffs. I guess it's pretty funny i suppose, but yeah prob needs to rein it in a bit. If he keeps it up he's going to be very disliked among opposition players and fans, so hopefully he has a thick skin. Which from the two games so far – both which he's created headlines – it looks like he does.

cricket’s just as much a mental game as it is a physical game. you can’t let the opposition get in your head as easily as he did for the entire squad. mightn’t have been pretty, nor “gentlemanly” but it certainly was effective in what (hopefully) were his intentions

 

[Soggy2112]

I voted tone it down, but more so his fielding than batting. His antics from him in Melbourne were as aggressive as i've seen. Walking in each and every ball from square leg to berate the batsman definitely achieved its goal in getting under the opposition's skin. And this is a 19 year old on debut ffs. I guess it's pretty funny i suppose, but yeah prob needs to reign it in a bit. If he keeps it up he's going to be very disliked among opposition players and fans, so hopefully he has a thick skin. Which from the two games so far – both which he's created headlines – it looks like he does.

Personally I don’t, and nor should Sam, care at all what the opposition thinks of him. As long as he does the right thing by his teammates and behaves in a way that as Australians, we can be proud to have him represent us, then he can be as big of a pest to the opposition as he wants.

 

[jannissary]

‘I’m a bit rattled by that innings’: Konstas’ wild knock comes to ugly end as big concerns emerge

‘I’m rattled by that innings’: Konstas’ ugly end to wild knock as big concerns emerge

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lol

 

[Mr5000]

"but its the way he plays"