Australia's approach with all-rounders in LOIs

[Texan]

It seems like Australia is packing their LOI teams with all-rounders, which looks like a good idea to me. 

 Mitch Marsh, Cameron Green and Marcus Stoinis are all fairly capable in both areas and then you have Mitch Starc and Abbott, who are primarily bowlers, but who can also bat. A good All-rounder is worth its weight in gold and at least at the moment, and having these 3 gives them the flexibility to play different combinations of batsmen and specialist bowlers. Your thoughts?

[vvvslaxman]

We also have a all rounder :) 

 

[Nikola]

Even maxwell can bowl 5-6 overs and specially in indian conditions he will do well but i still think they will play 3 pacers + zampa.

[Bigg Brother]

The WC in India will be Australia's to lose. England will give decent competition otherwise it is Australia.

[vvvslaxman]

32 minutes ago, Bigg Brother said:

The WC in India will be Australia's to lose. England will give decent competition otherwise it is Australia.

 

It is hard to predict as sometimes toss plays a major role. Either way India will get their clock cleaned. With no Bumrah death bowling is sh**e. We haven't gotten the chance to witness that yet. Same way in recent times India was in pole position to score a  massive score by 35th over only to end up with lower score than the projected score. Death over batting/bowling are major concerns. Then we have this left arm seamer upfront. Too many holes in the ship. It is going to sink very badly.

[cowboysfan]

IMO Australia are by far the favorites to win the WC,they got all bases covered,India are in a state of flux and i feel if ICC prepares flat wickets we are are not going to win the WC,

[tapandrun]

This is one way for strengthening of batting, In BBL they have taken the route of big power hitter in the batting.

So if this is the style they are going to pursue then they will need batter who can bowl to lengthen the batting incase playing expensive shots costs the quick wkts.

 

Samething  eng is doing in different style where they are employing high percentage of modern shots sweeps/reverse/laps etc.. , When playing high % game teams needs some cushion.

 

Ind batting is in disarray donot have power hitters or who can play modern style shots.

 

 

[Majestic]

Mitch Marsh doesn't bowl nowadays.

 

Stoinis is bits and pieces in ODIs.

 

Maxwell is exciting but non reliable.

 

Green can be dangerous.

 

I still feel it is not a great idea to leave 20 overs for them. But then their specialist batsman Labu has barely done anything in ODIs.

 

Warner

Head

M Marsh

Smith

Carey(wkt)

Stoinis

Maxwell

Green

Starc

Hazelwood/Cummins/ S Abbot

Zampa

 

I think they can play one bowler instead of Stoinis.

 

[Vijy]

4 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

It is hard to predict as sometimes toss plays a major role. Either way India will get their clock cleaned. With no Bumrah death bowling is sh**e. We haven't gotten the chance to witness that yet. Same way in recent times India was in pole position to score a  massive score by 35th over only to end up with lower score than the projected score. Death over batting/bowling are major concerns. Then we have this left arm seamer upfront. Too many holes in the ship. It is going to sink very badly.

1st round exit likely, much like 2007 WC. good legacy for vada pavman

[Vijy]

3 minutes ago, Majestic said:

Mitch Marsh doesn't bowl nowadays.

 

Stoinis is bits and pieces in ODIs.

 

Maxwell is exciting but non reliable.

 

Green can be dangerous.

 

I still feel it is not a great idea to leave 20 overs for them. But then their specialist batsman Labu has barely done anything in ODIs.

 

Warner

Head

M Marsh

Smith

Carey(wkt)

Stoinis

Maxwell

Green

Starc

Hazelwood/Cummins/ S Abbot

Zampa

 

I think they can play one bowler instead of Stoinis.

 

mitch marsh does bowl; it's just that he is not doing it in the past several months because of injuries. having enough ARs means that some bits and pieces players are fine.

 

Eng ARs - only stokes is great (and that too, not so much in ODIs), the others like rashid, livingstone, moeen, curran bros, jordan, archer, willey are either bits and pieces or good primarily at one discipline.