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If the crowd are booing Clarke, what hope does cricket have to raise the dwindling crowds?

It's no longer about Clarke's ability, it's about his popularity!

:eek:
 
Crowds (and viewership) have generally been excellent this year (yes, it's been an Ashes year, but it's still encouraging).

He would have got some people back on side with his solid performance with the bat today, and his captaincy in the field has been very good. As long as his performances with the bat improve he should definitely take over from Ponting in the One day arena after the World Cup (which will give us the interesting scenario of having three different incumbent captains for the three different forms of the game).
 
Scaley mate #4 said:
If the crowd are booing Clarke, what hope does cricket have to raise the dwindling crowds?

It's no longer about Clarke's ability, it's about his popularity!

:eek:
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What's the world come too. The public deciding our skipper.

First question is how many runs, wickets, or decisions do the idiots in the crowd make?

You pick the best captain available to win games of cricket, nothing more, nothing less. That's all that counts, the job on the ground, winning games of cricket. It's not a popularity contest. I don't want some numbnut as skipper because he's popular with people, alot of whom are simple thinking twats, who don't have the ability to separate perception from reality. The day we are guided by public perception picking our leaders will be the day the whole games loses it's credibility and we go completely down the toilet.

While his batting sucks at present, and that won't be forever, we have a captain finally doing a terrific job, being a great on-field leader. The last time we saw that were the days Gilchrist filled in for Ponting.
 
Jimthegreat said:
What's the world come too. The public deciding our skipper.

First question is how many runs, wickets, or decisions do the idiots in the crowd make?

You pick the best captain available to win games of cricket, nothing more, nothing less. That's all that counts, the job on the ground, winning games of cricket. It's not a popularity contest. I don't want some numbnut as skipper because he's popular with people. The day we are guided by public perception picking our leaders will be the day the whole games loses it's credibility and we go completely down the toilet.

While his batting sucks at present, and that won't be forever, we have a captain finally doing a terrific job, being a great on-field leader. The last time we saw that were the days Gilchrist filled in for Ponting.
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At the end of the day, they make all of them.
 

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Brown n Gold said:
Im not going to bust out a calculator and start working out his average since returning from India. He has had a rough trot particularly in the test arena, however he wasn't on his own there.
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well u had no trouble busting them out to suit your argument and try and shut me down because our opinions differ
 
Jimthegreat said:
What's the world come too. The public deciding our skipper.

First question is how many runs, wickets, or decisions do the idiots in the crowd make?

You pick the best captain available to win games of cricket, nothing more, nothing less. That's all that counts, the job on the ground, winning games of cricket. It's not a popularity contest. I don't want some numbnut as skipper because he's popular with people, alot of whom are simple thinking twats, who don't have the ability to separate perception from reality. The day we are guided by public perception picking our leaders will be the day the whole games loses it's credibility and we go completely down the toilet.

While his batting sucks at present, and that won't be forever, we have a captain finally doing a terrific job, being a great on-field leader. The last time we saw that were the days Gilchrist filled in for Ponting.
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Agree with all of this. Fantastic post :thumbsu:
 

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Brown n Gold said:
Im not going to bust out a calculator and start working out his average since returning from India. He has had a rough trot particularly in the test arena, however he wasn't on his own there.
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power09 said:
well u had no trouble busting them out to suit your argument and try and shut me down because our opinions differ
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Michael Clarke's batting averages since returning from India:

Tests - 21.44 (9 innings)
ODIs - 32.28 (8 innings)

Found easily through the 'reverse cumulative' feature on his CricInfo profile.
 
Katich is the best captain in Australia. He should be captain of the test team.

One day - Watson or Clarke. Clarke has the experience. But please don't include these games v England in any analysis. England have given up.
 
The Big Steele said:
Katich is the best captain in Australia. He should be captain of the test team.

One day - Watson or Clarke. Clarke has the experience. But please don't include these games v England in any analysis. England have given up.
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Katich is perfect but too old. He'll probably retire in 2 years anyway. Id still persist with Clarke as captain and it looks like his getting better with bat
 
IMO Clarke's captaincy is pretty good.
He's shown some nous in this series and has got the players up and about after a dismal test series.

His form is the problem though. If he can get back to his best, then yes, he definitely should be the captain.

He has a World Cup to play and after that will possibly be up for the ODI captaincy. We still have a little time up our sleeves before deciding on the next test skipper (possibly after the next home series).
 

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The Big Steele said:
Katich is the best captain in Australia. He should be captain of the test team.

One day - Watson or Clarke. Clarke has the experience. But please don't include these games v England in any analysis. England have given up.
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Didn't England win the previous game? Doesn't sound like they've given up.
 
Clarkes captaincy in the test was also quite good from what i saw, but the captain can only do so much (as Ponting has discovered) if the bowlers bowl like spuds. Clarkes setting of fields for spin is far better than Punters however.
 
Clarke should be captain, but being captain should not mean he has unlimited failures, if things dont turn around a new plan will be needed.

Wait for this tread to turn into, White should be captain, followed by Dussey should be in the test team and Hodge is the unluckiest player ever..... 22 posts without a mention must be setting records.
 
England are preparing for the World Cup just like us, so I'd say they're far from having "given up" in this series. They want to be in form and ready just like every other nation leading into the tournament. Judging by Andrew Strauss' comments after each England loss, he seems quite annoyed that they haven't continued their Test dominance in the ODI arena.
 

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