That means aus should not have picked Labuschagne who scored more than 1000 runs this season! We have seen how good he is. And we know that the county stint played a huge role in performance. Most of the time he came very early in the innings. Almost playing as if he was a opener.
....I’ve already agreed with your point about Malan deserving a game given that he has previous international experience and has been much better in English conditions at the moment. Not sure why you have quoted my erroneous response again.
As for Marnus, I was initially against him being picked purely on the basis of second division stats but he has proven me wrong and shown that there is a quality player in there after all who was aided by the county experience. The point is that county stats aren’t a true indicator of a player’s ability at all times, Pujara for example couldn’t buy a run last year in county cricket while he was decent in England and the star in Australia later. Similarly, Bancroft was good in the same second division and yet was very poor with the bat in the Ashes.
Without doubt.
Untill they lose the next series of course.
Lets hope so. The current Bairstow is more suitable for limited overs.
Yep. Although I feel a little bit like I'm throwing stones from a glass house, because he'd get into the Irish Test side in such a role because we really aren't very good, and our awful funding is really making it tricky to build up a first-class competition of any value for highlighting our best batsmenBairstow a specialist batsman? In a test match?
