You really do love to take things out of context. Test Cricket's the highest form of fc cricket but you trying to justify that Chris Swan and John Hastings are better than Sreesanth, Gul and others based on their fc average is ludicrous.
You're saying they're better because they have actually played test matches. I'd take my boys everyday of the week infront of the terrorist mother ****ers.
It's interesting that Cribb seems to rate Sreesanth and Nel reasonably highly as opening bowlers. I think they're both pretty average.
Van Wyk and Cutting added. Benny Cutting's a potential star if he gets his injuries in order. Leading wicket taker in last season's Sheffield Shield.
Surprised you've not picked a proper reserve batsman yet. I suppose you can always shunt Prior up to 6 and bring one of the all rounders in.
Styris is a proper reserve batsman tbh. His First Class batting average is dragged down by his games as specialist bowler at the dawn of time which won't mean much.
Martin Love's been snapped up. If nothing else he'll provide the side with a good physio. He's only been retired for 18 months though and he had no drop off in form before retiring. I know that he went shit last cpl but I think that that was more luck. as a back up option, I think that he'd still go well.
Even though I'm fully expecting the first trial to be at least 4 months away, I think that I'll be looking at something like the following: 1. Andrew Puttick 2. Salman Butt 3. Martin Love 4. Mat Sinclair 5. Dave Hussey 6. Scott Styris 7. Morne Van Wyk+ 8. Nathan Hauritz 9. Brett Lee 10. Brett Geeves 11. Ben Cutting I'm not going to bother playing Cooper in any trials because I don't realistically see a point in the tournament where he will be getting used. I'd sooner play Van Wyk and use Prior as a specialist batsman.
Chris Rogers 5998 @ 60.58 Andrew Puttick 2404 @ 53.42 Salman Butt 1692 @ 39.34 Shane Watson 2544 @ 46.25 - 61 @ 25.32 Mathew Sinclair 1941 @ 60.65 - 15 @ 40.73 David Hussey 2766 @ 54.23 Matt Prior 3531 @ 44.13 Ryan Harris 457 @ 19.87 - 77 @ 24.28 Brett Lee 274 @ 15.22 - 50 @ 35.02 Ajantha Mendis 191 @ 12.73 - 85 @ 26.89 Mark Davies 143 @ 8.93 - 71 @ 22.59 Reserves: Nathan Hauritz 881 @ 32.63 - 96 @ 36.42 Scott Styris 554 @ 39.57 - 1 @ 165 Brett Geeves 483 @ 30.18 - 58 @ 25.06 Ben Cutting 378 @ 19.89 - 55 @ 28.72 Morne van Wyk 1080 @ 30 Martin Love 842 @ 52.62 Tom Cooper 429 @ 30.64
haha. I was halfway through doing this when you posted. Thanks. Lee's figures look pretty shit but it must be taken into account that those games were all at test level or on touring sides. I think that he's well and truly shown in the recent oders that he's still got what it takes. Obviously he was always better at od cricekt anyway but he should be able to do a pretty good job for me. The batting is where the real strength is. Butt's the odd man out but it's mostly at test level that he has yielded that average so I'm not too concerned.
Two pretty comprehensive wins in the trials. Stats from the Trials: Batting Averages: Rogers: 24 Puttick: 66 Watson: 89.5 Sinclair: 54.75 D Hussey: 17 Styris: 52.25 Prior: 50.25 Harris: 38 Lee: 42 Davies: 30 Mendis: 30 Butt: 25.25 Hauritz: 36 Love: 19 Geeves: 9.5 Cutting: infinity (41* and 12*) Bowling: Lee: 8 wickets @ 15.25 Watson: 7 wickets @ 24.42 Geeves: 7 wickets @ 20 Harris: 5 wickets @ 31.6 Mendis: 2 wickets @ 65.2 Cutting: 4 wickets @ 39.25 Hauritz: 3 wickets @ 72 Davies: 1 wicket @ 103 Styris: 1 wicket @ 65
