Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[ElwoodBlues1]

Khawaja averages 63 in Australia and has been in brilliant form for Queensland. No way you play Lehmann ahead of him.

Agree...think Khawaja will do well against the English bowlers on our wickets, he has been in form and is a bit different to our other batters
in that he can occupy the crease, work the ball, and be a solid player to build around , something we miss when Rogers retired.

[flyboy77]

Agree...think Khawaja will do well against the English bowlers on our wickets, he has been in form and is a bit different to our other batters
in that he can occupy the crease, work the ball, and be a solid player to build around , something we miss when Rogers retired.

he's a bloody good player is Usman.....as good as any of the Englishmen imo.

[malo]

Agree...think Khawaja will do well against the English bowlers on our wickets, he has been in form and is a bit different to our other batters

Oh no, not you too EB !  They are Batsmen !!!!!  This is not baseball.  I cringe everytime I hear Michael Clark or Smith or one of the other current generation use this term.  Why ?

Batter is what comes cooked with my piece of flake !

[ElwoodBlues1]

Oh no, not you too EB !  They are Batsmen !!!!!  This is not baseball.  I cringe everytime I hear Michael Clark or Smith or one of the other current generation use this term.  Why ?

Batter is what comes cooked with my piece of flake !

Fair call there Mal...I dont like the americanization of Aus and here I am using their terminology :-[..batsman it should be....

[malo]

Fair call there Mal...I dont like the americanization of Aus and here I am using their terminology :-[..batsman it should be....

ha...no probs mate !  It just a bugbear of mine......of course it is entirely fair to use this term for womens cricket if that's preferred to batswomen (which is a bit unwieldy) no problem with that at all.

[Inboltswetrust]

he's a bloody good player is Usman.....as good as any of the Englishmen imo.

Until the ball spins......

[laj]

Until the ball spins......

No problem with a spinning ball here, just the sub continent.

[ElwoodBlues1]

No problem with a spinning ball here, just the sub continent.

Be interesting to see if England get the courage to play Mason Crane...a Warnie clone who played in NSW and I think played some state cricket.
Leaks some runs but can spin the ball and bowl teams out...big risk though on the spin unfriendly Aus wickets.
Reckon the English will be negative and bowl Ali and Root as their slow bowlers with packed leg side fields......maybe Crane might get a game in Sydney...

[malo]

They certainly won't play him in the first couple of tests.....if they find themselves 2 down early on, or having to win the last test they might give him a go.

I'll be very interested to see how the Aussies go at Ali.  He's been allowed to get off very easy for a modest spinner in the past.  They need to target him the way they did Graham Swann last time.  Make it harder for the Poms to keep selecting him for his batting......which will be very useful for them.

[LP]

No problem with a spinning ball here, just the sub continent.

I think Khawaja's  problems over on the sub-continent were as much to do with the variable lack of bounce as anything. He is a strong square of the wicket player and Aussie square of the wicket players always struggle over there, the sub-continent players tend to be far more wristy and can deal with late ball movement far better.

In fairness to anyone, the wickets that the games were played on in that sub-continent series were no even suitable for under age cricket let alone test matches. If a school offered that sort of wicket locally the game would be canceled due to OH&S concerns.