Sport The Hangar Cricket Thread IV

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India are going to smash the ODI's. Really barren squad. Very disappointing that Jon Holland missed out on selection. I guess the side will be:

Finch
Warner
Smith
Bailey
Maxwell
M Marsh
Faulkner
Wade
Richardson
Paris
Hazlewood

Boland
S Marsh

I like the Richo selection, but would slide Boland and Paris out for Holland and Behrendorff personally.
 

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Why would Bailey get a gig ahead of Lynn/S Marsh? Ridiculous. Love Marsh or hate him he is easily one of the top one day batsmen in the country.

In any event, there is no point going back further than the current Big Bash form especially since T20 and 50 over Cricket are more or less the same in terms of the qualities you look for in players and their performances.

Wade has been jerking it with the bat for the last few months, too.
 

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you could play them all in theory. If we're basically treating this as an A series we may as well go the whole hog and tank it to blood some young blokes and get a bit of match practice in. We'll lose, but at least I'll be intrigued

Finch
Burns
SOS
Bailey
Lynn
M.Marsh (Or Maxwell if he needs a hit)
Wade
Agar (or Faulkner if he needs a hit)
Pattinson
Sandhu
Paris
 

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Why would Bailey get a gig ahead of Lynn/S Marsh? Ridiculous. Love Marsh or hate him he is easily one of the top one day batsmen in the country.

In any event, there is no point going back further than the current Big Bash form especially since T20 and 50 over Cricket are more or less the same in terms of the qualities you look for in players and their performances.

Wade has been jerking it with the bat for the last few months, too.
George Bailey has an ODI average of 42.
you could play them all in theory. If we're basically treating this as an A series we may as well go the whole hog and tank it to blood some young blokes and get a bit of match practice in. We'll lose, but at least I'll be intrigued

Finch
Burns
SOS
Bailey
Lynn
M.Marsh (Or Maxwell if he needs a hit)
Wade
Agar (or Faulkner if he needs a hit)
Pattinson
Sandhu
Paris
Burns is a horrid OD player. Also would have Handscomb in there, very good OD player.
 

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You are to never again suggest Handscomb be a back up keeper at the higher level.

His keeping has been pedestrian borderline u14 backstop
Let's say we have this XI:

Warner
Burns
Smith
Lynn
Handscomb
M Marsh
Nevill
Starc
Pattinson
Lyon
Hazlewood

and Nevill goes down injured during the match and subsequently cannot keep. Who do you propose takes the gloves for the rest of the match? How do you fail to understand that this was what I was talking about? Not that he should be the second in line keeper on the tour?
 

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Maybe they mean full blooded?

I dunno, but it's extremely poor wording at best.
as Phone said, there's a distinction between genuine black africans and other coloureds as far as south african sport is concerned, and off the top of my head the i reckon there's not more than a half dozen that have played test cricket for south africa.

Ntini, Tsotsobe, Rabada, Bavuma, 'All hands' Zondeki, has Phangiso played a test?
 

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Ignorance on my behalf. Obviously Prince isn't of full African stock like, say, Ntini was but I still thought he was classified as African.

I knew Gibbs and Duminy are coloureds.
 

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Let's say we have this XI:

Warner
Burns
Smith
Lynn
Handscomb
M Marsh
Nevill
Starc
Pattinson
Lyon
Hazlewood

and Nevill goes down injured during the match and subsequently cannot keep. Who do you propose takes the gloves for the rest of the match? How do you fail to understand that this was what I was talking about? Not that he should be the second in line keeper on the tour?
Different situations!!

I have seen (possibly on the cricket board itself) you advocating Handscomb as a back up keeper in the squad. If he is good enough to be in the team, it is as a batsmen, NOT as a reserve keeper. It has been shocking..
 

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Different situations!!

I have seen (possibly on the cricket board itself) you advocating Handscomb as a back up keeper in the squad. If he is good enough to be in the team, it is as a batsmen, NOT as a reserve keeper. It has been shocking..
Never as a back up keeper in the squad. Just in that situation. It's purely your misinterpretation.
 
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