softest current players in test cricket - in decline

well... looks to me like test cricket is toughening up and that there are fewer softies around..

surveying the field the only softies I can see in the top 3 are

Saffies - Snorkel, Duminy
Oz - Schoolgirl
Poms - I Ron Bollard

of the rest the Banindian xi feature - 'cept for Ashtray...and I guess minus the incomparable Shiv so do the windies

Most of the Snoozies seem hard core as do most of Lankans and Stannies and even the zimbos have toughened up and punch above their weight..

What do others think

mentally or physically soft ?

I'd still have Johnson in the mentally soft category

Johnno is just mental

I am talking mentally soft

Duminy? Really?

Would have thought there were others ahead of him.

shhh....horrie is trying to bait a meerkat

ssshhh....think he agrees with me....lets sit quietly until he emerges from his burrow and see what he does

Sorry, but when I saw the thread heading, I was simply unable to look beyond Twatson. Full stop.

embee wrote:shhh....horrie is trying to bait a meerkat

Actually saw it earlier MB and my first thought was has anyone had more failures with attempted wind ups than horrie? Even Bucky has a better hit rate.

hehe...actually Skully, I agree with you...it was thinking of the dreaded schoolgirl this morning that made me wonder if there was anyone (even Bell) approaching his softness...my conclusion watson .....daylight....more daylight....before anyone else

Hughes should be in there somewhere.....or he will be if he ever gets selected again.

Cook.
Far too "nice" a lad.
Softcock.

Is de Kock soft?

WideWally wrote:Is de Kock soft?

I think he stood up to the occasion.

Big Dog wrote:

WideWally wrote:Is de Kock soft?

I think he stood up to the occasion.

He's a bit up and down isn't he?

JGK wrote:

Big Dog wrote:

WideWally wrote:Is de Kock soft?

I think he stood up to the occasion.

He's a bit up and down isn't he?

More like in and out, I'd say.

Cook, for his crying to the public over Warne's fair criticism.

Fluffy de Pillowsis

Pup, because his little, ickle poorly back will give way any time soon.

Monty. Weak as.

lardbucket wrote:Monty. Weak as.

  

Basil wrote:Pup, because his little, ickle poorly back will give way any time soon.

Actually think he's played through the pain pretty well. You can hardly tell he's hindered. Bad backs ent nuttin ta fock wid.

and I defend monty.... not in the last 5-0 but the previous 5-0 whitewash, Monty along with flintosser and Colly were the ones who had a go when everything had goan to crap...Monty left that tour with head up knowing he had given his best - as opposed to weazels like I Ron B who remain in the team to this day

Brass Monkey wrote:

Basil wrote:Pup, because his little, ickle poorly back will give way any time soon.

Actually think he's played through the pain pretty well. You can hardly tell he's hindered. Bad backs ent nuttin ta fock wid.

So to speak.....

horace wrote:and I defend monty.... not in the last 5-0 but the previous 5-0 whitewash, Monty along with flintosser and Colly were the ones who had a go when everything had goan to crap...Monty left that tour with head up knowing he had given his best - as opposed to weazels like I Ron B who remain in the team to this day

Bell pretty much won an Ashes series off his own bat a year ago. Stats showed that he was quite literally the difference between the two sides.

I Ron Bellard remains the most over rated English player by English fans ...

he was a frightened weazel here in the 5-0 whitewashes and has never really copped a comeuppance


By contrast Monty has performed wholeheartedly (inc in the face of certain defeat) in losses and wins and outperformed the over rated Chinhead a number of times when they were both selected... Monty remains an unfullfilled talent who I expect will never play for the Poms again