Shane Watson in the IPL ....

Mick, I know what you mean . . . I don't get excited by 50-over games, but even less so by T20 . . . which seems to me to have the same unrealistic appeal as Stickcricket . . .

Mick, I know what you mean . . . I don't get excited by 50-over games, but even less so by T20 . . . which seems to me to have the same unrealistic appeal as Stickcricket . . .

Henry wrote:

Marsh, Pomers, Watson, Voges, Hodge, David Hussey, Hopes, Ronchi, Hilfenhaus, Katich, Tait, White, et al knocking at the door

I'd say out of that lot Marsh, Pomersbach, D.Hussey and Hilfenhaus have a chance to do well at test level.

Hodge is old and crap, Voges is nothing special, Watson gets injured too often to be considered, Hopes is a bits and pieces player who isn't good enough with bat or ball for test cricket, Ronchi is a front foot slogger with a poor technique, Katich struggles against high class fast bowling, Tait is a wild maverick who has no idea where the ball is going, and White is a slogger with a pretty poor defensive technique.

There are many others with similar flaws who are already strutting their stuff in the text arena.

furriner wrote:IPL 2020 is going to stay boysies/ girlies. I seen it.

The key ingredients its needs are money (Indian thus far), crowds (Indian thus far), TV viewership (mostly Indian with a chunk of foreign interest, so I understand), and a high calibre of players (Aussie + Indians + SA mostly, with Windies, NZ, Pakistan thrown in).

All of these it has.

If the Aussies backed out it could have been farked, but that ain't the case. And except for Pietersen and Flintoff, I don't think there's anyone in the England set up (i.e. top 20 players) who would be considered a 'must have'.

And as for 50 over games, I think it will be an effort for me to watch those from here on.

These 2020 games were/ are fun.

noelene wrote:What an innnings that was by Sean Marsh last night.That young man has got it.I hope he can translate it to the international scene for Australia.Looks like he will become the most sort after player in the IPL if he keeps it up.

taipan wrote:

noelene wrote:What an innnings that was by Sean Marsh last night.That young man has got it.I hope he can translate it to the international scene for Australia.Looks like he will become the most sort after player in the IPL if he keeps it up.

Should walk straight into the test team.

Red wrote:

taipan wrote:

noelene wrote:What an innnings that was by Sean Marsh last night.That young man has got it.I hope he can translate it to the international scene for Australia.Looks like he will become the most sort after player in the IPL if he keeps it up.

Should walk straight into the test team.

As I said previously our depth is enviable. Marsh should end up superior to a large % of players already playing at test level.

Henry wrote:

Marsh, Pomers, Watson, Voges, Hodge, David Hussey, Hopes, Ronchi, Hilfenhaus, Katich, Tait, White, et al knocking at the door

I'd say out of that lot Marsh, Pomersbach, D.Hussey and Hilfenhaus have a chance to do well at test level.

Hodge is old and crap = VAUGHAN

Voges is nothing special = BELL

Watson gets injured too often to be considered = FREDDIE

Hopes is a bits and pieces player who isn't good enough with bat or ball for test cricket = COLLINGWOOD

Ronchi is a front foot slogger with a poor technique = for a keeper he does OK with the bat

Katich struggles against high class fast bowling = 99% of players to have played the game

Tait is a wild maverick who has no idea where the ball is going, = HARMISON

White is a slogger with a pretty poor defensive technique. = OK, you got me there.

taipan wrote:

Red wrote:

taipan wrote:

noelene wrote:What an innnings that was by Sean Marsh last night.That young man has got it.I hope he can translate it to the international scene for Australia.Looks like he will become the most sort after player in the IPL if he keeps it up.

Should walk straight into the test team.

As I said previously our depth is enviable. Marsh should end up superior to a large % of players already playing at test level.

You just don't get NSR, do you?

eowyn wrote:

taipan wrote:

Red wrote:

taipan wrote:

noelene wrote:What an innnings that was by Sean Marsh last night.That young man has got it.I hope he can translate it to the international scene for Australia.Looks like he will become the most sort after player in the IPL if he keeps it up.

Should walk straight into the test team.

As I said previously our depth is enviable. Marsh should end up superior to a large % of players already playing at test level.

You just don't get NSR, do you?

Surely that non-sarcasm recognition was pure gold?

JGK wrote:

Henry wrote:

Marsh, Pomers, Watson, Voges, Hodge, David Hussey, Hopes, Ronchi, Hilfenhaus, Katich, Tait, White, et al knocking at the door

I'd say out of that lot Marsh, Pomersbach, D.Hussey and Hilfenhaus have a chance to do well at test level.

Hodge is old and crap = VAUGHAN...But Vaughan already has more than 10 test hundreds.

Voges is nothing special = BELL. But Bell is 3 years younger than Voges and has already played 40 tests. Add to that, Bell actually DOES look special. He just needs to stop getting out like a tw*t.

Watson gets injured too often to be considered = FREDDIE. But when Flintoff plays, he is 10 times better than Watson.

Hopes is a bits and pieces player who isn't good enough with bat or ball for test cricket = COLLINGWOOD. I doubt very much that James Hopes will ever score a test double century. In fact I doubt he will ever play a test. Ever.

Ronchi is a front foot slogger with a poor technique = for a keeper he does OK with the bat. Ok yeah that's true. But he's a step down again from Haddin just as Haddin is a step down from Gilchrist.

Katich struggles against high class fast bowling = 99% of players to have played the game. But they don't look like a rabbit in the headlights as much as Katich does.

Tait is a wild maverick who has no idea where the ball is going, = HARMISON. And he's been dropped from the England team. He can at least claim to habe been world class for a short period of time.

White is a slogger with a pretty poor defensive technique. = OK, you got me there.

taipan wrote:

noelene wrote:What an innnings that was by Sean Marsh last night.That young man has got it.I hope he can translate it to the international scene for Australia.Looks like he will become the most sort after player in the IPL if he keeps it up.

Should walk straight into the test team.

noelene wrote:

taipan wrote:

noelene wrote:What an innnings that was by Sean Marsh last night.That young man has got it.I hope he can translate it to the international scene for Australia.Looks like he will become the most sort after player in the IPL if he keeps it up.

Should walk straight into the test team.

Nope,not yet.He will probably get into the ODI side first,assuming he stays away from pubs on nights before the game.