General cricket thread.

& that goes back to the point of yesterdays post. Using the stats, which by 1990-2015/20 standards are pretty ordinary stats, BUT if you compare to the games he has been in they're fine & he is in the conversation of playing for Aust. 

& wow comparing it England where they are complaining they are playing on roads, there is blokes scoring double centuries over there who are nowhere near the England team. So to compare to whats happening over there is ludicrous. 

Bethell hadn't scored a century btw! Look what he did V Australia. 

 

Did he outperform 31yo Weatherald during this period? Yes he did. Yet the 31yo was given games for Australia when the 20yo wasn't. 

Weatherald was selected in the hope he could be a Chris Rogers or even a peak Ed Cowan.

You've mentioned Head opening at least 7500 times now, you're starting to sound like a small child who needs praise daily for being able to go for a wee by themselves. 

Thx uzzie and S.Smith's stepson........

It's been suggested Weatherald's been a failure, however despite the disparity below at least K has his whole future in front of him. 

Test Average 1st class Average

Weatherald 22 37

Green averages 33 in tests but only due to significant scores against very ordinary Kiwi and WI attacks, and his bowling average in both tests and 1st Class is extremely ordinary.  That said he's probably entitled to remain in the squad given his age and the fact the next two serious series are against South Africa and the Kiwis.   

Marnus is only 31 so suspect there's a place for him going forward.

Still probably leaves a spot.

I could see them going with Renshaw to open, Patterson at 3 if he continues to show form and either McSweeney at 5 or stick with Weatherald opening with Head dropping back to 5.

Head had a tremendous at home, averaging 53.5, but he averages 32.5 outside of Australia, with only 1 of his test hundreds outside Australia (in the WTC final vs India) the averages are nearly identical home and away for ODI, as are his hundreds, so surely its only a matter of time before he rectifies that in red ball cricket, I guess the selectors and himself need to decide if he'd be best placed to do that up top or at 5.

Konstas has the 4th most runs in shield this season. 2nd of those with a strike rate above 50. 

It's easy to cherry pick statistics, Renshaw has played 8 Shield innings this season to Konstas 18, Renshaw has averaged 25 more per innings this season than Konstas.

Sam Harper has a career first class average of 27.6, thats even worse than the golden boys Konstas and Kellaway.

Looking at this realistically, Australia's batting looks like a house of cards at present, there isn't even a Jimmy Maher coming through the ranks.

Harper's average shows he could just be having an outlier of a season.

Konstas numbers are worse than Tim Ward and that guy has never been near the Australian side conversations.

Renshaw's numbers in every aspect are far superior to Konstas, career mark in both first class and test cricket and his current season in the Shield, it shouldn't even be a contest.  Konstas needs to start making consistent scores in Shield cricket, at least in the 50+ range before he should be considered, he is showing limited form in Shield cricket and except for that deer in the headlights 60 on Boxing Day, his test record is nothing more than pathetic.

Kellaway is another, some have him in the Ashes side in 2027 yet he is averaging below 25 at Shield level.

FWIW I wouldn't be surprised if they keep both Webster and Green in the test side and move Carey into the top 6, Head will open with Renshaw, Smith at 4, 3 will be between McSweeney (only because I think they feel they owe him another chance) Labuschagne and Patterson.