I said in a thread that he is overrated, but it's crazy to see what people are saying. Stuff like dropping him and everything, that's madness. He just excelled against South Africa, in South Africa, and has dominated the Australia domestic scene. The kid is 20 years old. He should be given an extended run, regardless of his results. We should re-evaluate his position after about 15 tests, if he continues to perform poorly in the remainder of this series,
perhaps at the conclusion of the Ashes.
When will he produce a great innings in what we saw him do against South Africa and in county cricket?
Why is the poll multiple options? Next means the next one, not more than one, so it should be a single option poll.
Talk on the blogs of him being replaced by Watson third test.
I think he's been a bit unlucky tbh. If he had genuine technical weaknesses against short bowling he wouldn't have played so well in South Africa.
After the first Test there was talk of Watson replacing Hussey too.
And in any case, who do Australia replace him with? No spare opener in the squad, and putting Watson in that position would be absolutely laughable.
He has opened in First Class cricket for Queensland before, last season or the season before, if I recall correctly. He was diabolical for most of his time there, just started to get the hang of it before they moved him back into the middle order.