Chrish Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Every team does some form of ball tempering.. He wasn't the first and won't be the last. Ankit_sharma03 and GoldenSun 2 Link to comment
putrevus Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 19 hours ago, vvvslaxman said: We are watching a legend in action. Let us hope we produced a consistent clutch Test performer. I don't any team has produced batsman of this caliber.Aussies have produced two Bradman and now Smith. Link to comment
putrevus Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Steve Harmison is a bitter loser by bringing up Sandpaper gate and calling him cheat. Anyone who calls him a cheat need to get their heads examined, every team has tampered with the ball at some point.He was punished much more than he deserved, leave this guy alone. Link to comment
Nikola Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 32 minutes ago, putrevus said: Steve Harmison is a bitter loser by bringing up Sandpaper gate and calling him cheat. Anyone who calls him a cheat need to get their heads examined, every team has tampered with the ball at some point.He was punished much more than he deserved, leave this guy alone. Eng have accepted they tampered the ball in 2005 ashes in which harmison himself played. Idk why he is crying now. Ankit_sharma03 1 Link to comment
Chrish Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 I am not convinced about his ability against quality pace attack considering his performance in past two series against SA. Hope he proves me wrong as I really want to believe that I saw a batsman who didn’t have any weakness. Link to comment
rtmohanlal Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 i have my reservations w.r.t him when pitted across eras. .... 80s & 90s era <25 averaging bowlers .... to assume that just because he averages so highly against this era set of bowlers doesn't automatically mean he would have done the same against those era bowlers. Keep in mind the Saffers have tamed him almost sucessfully. Even in the previous series in India his first inns of 109 had some 5 or 6 lives . So what might had been at the most a 62 average ended up in 71 avg: . Rarely a batsman gets such large number of reprieves thru an inns . So that was an exception. Herath tamed him in SL. What not ,even in the single warm up game the Aussies played among themselves in this Ashes, he got out for 2 single digit scores against Cummins & Siddle each . That being the case, to average the same 65 against the variety of <25 averaging deadly bowlers ranging from Lillee to Pollock of the previous eras as he has done till now .... is a bit stretching it too much . One debutant Jofra Archer send him to a state of concussion .So to expect him surviving against the likes of Marshall, Holding, Ambrose,Akram, Donald ,Patterson,Croft etc etc with this weird technique and average the same 65 is a bit too much for me. Link to comment
Chrish Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 (edited) Almost any big inning is favored by dropped catches/ misfield etc. It shouldn’t be brought in the argument. Smith’s performance in India was godly.. Edited September 9, 2019 by Chrish Link to comment
Chrish Posted September 9, 2019 Share Posted September 9, 2019 Also he took his revenge on Archer this last game. Yes, he was down on pace but it’s not Smith’s fault. Archer should have been able to deliver after those hot press conferences. Link to comment
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