One day squad..No Maxwell????

[laj]

Starc's a good ODI bowler, a great finisher to the low order, but I think he's well away from where we need him to be when bowling to the top order.

Starc's figures are greatly bolstered by those cheap wickets he picks up at the bottom end of the innings. Not that isn't in someway valuable but the figures are distorted, when you drill down from the general match stats into the details this becomes quite apparent. Lots of those four wicket hauls are three tail enders.

We need another bowler or two that make it harder for the top order, for the tail end I'd back in most of our better ODI and 20/20 bowlers to clean up the tail if they were given the opportunity!

That lower order stuff is a myth. He gets alot at the top order too. Brendon McCullum will testify to that. In the preliminary game too he single handed near won the game for Australia after we only made 150. Good reason he was Man if the Series at the last World Cup. He has 141 ODI wickets, economy rate of 4.93 a strike rate of a very low 25 balls per wicket. You don't get that just bowling out the lower order.

Hate to say it but this pie chart makes you claims about Starc look very wrong. Bottom order wickets you say?...lol.

http://www.howstat.com/cricket/Statistic...yerID=3830