Pup has more brains than Hilditch

It's been mentioned elsewhere, but deserves its own thread.

Pup says p!ss me off now

"Australia Twenty20 captain Michael Clarke admitted his place was under threat after a poor run of form continued in a seven-wicket World Twenty20 final loss to England.
Clarke, batting at No 3, was involved in the run out of hard-hitting opener David Warner as Australia collapsed to 3-8 at the Kensington Oval.

He himself made just 27 - but that was still his best score of the tournament - in a total of 147 for six and Clarke ended the event with 92 runs at a meagre average of 15.33.

More powerful hitters in Australia's top order were largely able to cover for Clarke's lack of runs and with remarkable frankness, he said: "There's no doubt the selectors will need to have a look at my performances.

"I certainly know they haven't been up to scratch through this whole tournament and probably in Twenty20 cricket in general.

"I'm sure the selectors will sit down and have a look and if I'm not the right guy for No 3 and the captaincy then they'll make that decision," added the 29-year-old.

Clarke, the Test and one-day vice-captain, was the natural choice to inherit the leadership when regular skipper Ricky Ponting retired from Twenty20 international cricket."

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Now FFS Hilditch, Pup is happy to fall on his sword - let him.

Clarke's lack of aggression in T20s (and even in ODIs) is really surprising. Don't think he batted this slowly in the first 2-3 years of his career.

Aye, SG. He's completely lost the plot in both forms of one-day cricket. Can barely get it off the square.

Yet his test form has been outstanding for the same period.

So no complaints from me.

Yep.

He has been outstanding in tests. His averages of last 5 years,

72, 80, 51, 55, 75.

Thats enormous whichever way you look at it.

skully wrote:Aye, SG. He's completely lost the plot in both forms of one-day cricket. Can barely get it off the square.

May perhaps damage his chances to play the ODI WC which is barely 9-10 months away.

Clarke is like Laxman- Too orthodox to go the tonk and hit bowlers over the top consistently. Especially fast bowlers.

Henry wrote:Clarke is like Laxman- Too orthodox to go the tonk and hit bowlers over the top consistently. Especially fast bowlers.

Spot on. Now WTF can't the NSP see that?

Clarke is a batsman. Not a slogger. While some batsmen can slog, he can't.

He's probably flogging at the moment. Looked like he was keen to jump Ellyse Perry's bones yesty.

skully wrote:He's probably flogging at the moment. Looked like he was keen to jump Ellyse Perry's bones yesty.

creepy!

Trying to get on a winner?

I bet there was some rug creeping going on in the Windies last night.

Looks like Lara stole his Mojo......Tart....

So that'd be the only to friends she's got in the world then? Mo and jo?

I rather think that sheilas like her tend to make friends pretty quickly.

Furry muff.

lots of rug Munchausen by proxy going on ...

Oh dear. Clarke seemingly doesn't have the intelligence we were crediting him with. Or he's decided that being Ricky Ponting v2.0 is the way to go.

Clarke determined to stay on as t20 captain.

cricinfo wrote:Clarke has no intention of giving up his place as Australia's captain in the shortest format despite struggling to lift his scoring rate in the World Twenty20, where he led Australia to the final, which they lost to England. [snip]

after arriving home to Sydney, Clarke conceded he might have to dust off some of the more aggressive strokes he played as a younger man. [snip]

"For me my role is not the same as Dave Warner or Shane Watson. I always want to perform, I always want to score runs, it doesn't matter what form of the game I'm playing, but like I said in this game, sometimes you can't always make those runs."

Yeah, but scoring runs slowly in t20 is - 99 times out of 100 - useless.