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Mitch Marsh has captaincy experience... just saying.
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India were in on the conspiracy getting rolled for 36 without losing a single wicket to a non-NSW player.No mate the NSW mafia are only going to let Cummins do it if it's not Smith. Just like they keep picking Cummins and Hazlewood in the test team in front of guns like Riley Meredith and Gabe Bell.
Hard to captain from the stands, though.Mitch Marsh has captaincy experience... just saying.
As long as Smith openly covets the role it's going to be reoccurring news.Thread should have been locked long ago.
Thread should have been locked and his file stamped never to captain again, ever!!!As long as Smith openly covets the role it's going to be reoccurring news.
Thread should have been locked long ago.
Smith lost he right to captain Australia ever again, the moment he ignored finding out what the conversation was in dressing room between Warner and Bancroft. He showed he is not deserving of that role of such responsibility.
Batsman only and can offer tactical advice but captain role, has no right to it at all.
It is not a distraction. It happened. I've forgiven Smith. But I also think he forfeit any right to be captain from that mistake. It was not a minor mistake. It was massive. He just showed he was not captain material by those turn of events. You look for people that are captain material. He is not it and showed it by such a massive mistake. He is a cricket player only. Captain's are more than just players. Only a select few are capable of being captain. He clearly is not one of them.The SA issue is a distraction. If the debate is about what happened over there, then it is just about whether or not you think Smith should be forgiven for his role.
This.It is not a distraction. It happened. I've forgiven Smith. But I also think he forfeit any right to be captain from that mistake. It was not a minor mistake. It was massive. He just showed he was not captain material by those turn of events. You look for people that are captain material. He is not it and showed it by such a massive mistake. He is a cricket player only. Captain's are more than just players. Only a select few are capable of being captain. He clearly is not one of them.
It is not a distraction. It happened. I've forgiven Smith. But I also think he forfeit any right to be captain from that mistake. It was not a minor mistake. It was massive. He just showed he was not captain material by those turn of events. You look for people that are captain material. He is not it and showed it by such a massive mistake. He is a cricket player only. Captain's are more than just players. Only a select few are capable of being captain. He clearly is not one of them.
It is not an issue to me. It is an open and shut case that he not even be eligible to captain ever again because of it.But then the issue is simply a debate about whether what happened in South Africa should or shouldn't disqualify him from being captain.
ah do we like bowlers who have so much work to do to present as a leader... / ?.. can he operate equally as well 'throwing'/bowling the ball asI'd gladly support Australia with Cummins as captain
Steve Smith is tainted goods and the cricket team would be a laughing stock if he was allowed to be captain again.
ah do we like bowlers who have so much work to do to present as a leader... / ?.. can he operate equally as well 'throwing'/bowling the ball as
much as well as marshalling the troops? They either bowl the ball and then get stuck out in whoop whoop to save the four...
just saying...
yea haa.. get the horses tamed and the world set to rights and we will be a run to win..Lets get The Big Show in instead!!
Him being banned for a year was laughable, he should not have received any ban other than what the ICC handed out but he should have been sacked as skipper right away and told he wont be selected for that role again, terrible leader and tactically inept and more proof great players dont always make great leaders.
Yep they all knew what was going on , like you say Smith hung himself at his initial presser .I don't think Smith was a good captain but I do think he was unfairly thrown under the bus.
I'd happily bet money that the whole ball tampering thing was a team plan that Darren Lehmann was in on. Lehmann's whole playing dumb act juts doesn't add up with the way in which he went about speaking with Handscomb on the walkie talkie.
I'm certain Smith's punishment was specifically about his address to the media which was incredibly stupid and out of touch, putting the entire Australian Cricket Brand in jeopardy. Had he just gone out and said something similar to Faf in years gone by it would have been a non event after the series was over.
You'd have to be a complete moron to think Cummins, Hazlewood and Starc weren't in on it.