The Professor wrote:Matthew Wade is making it hard work for Western Australia and the Aussie selectors at the WACA
To the casual observer, one would be inclined to think the selectors are going to put the stats from this competition in the bin and set it on fire. Considering the sheer number of runs being scored by batsman who have proven to be well below the standard of test match batting on anything but the flattest of tracks, I would have to conclude the pitches and bowling are of an extremely low standard.
As a sort of benchmark, NSW have two batsman, one who batted at 8 in his short test career, another who batted 9 in his 2 ODIs and with an average until recently below 20 in 60 FC games, who have scored 1200 runs between them at 75. But then a couple of weeks ago they are confronted with a pitch that does a little of something, and a capable FC performer (Jackson Bird) takes 8/15 or some nonsense, and they get bowled out for 30.
Story of Aussie cricket in the last few years. Average bats piling runs up on dead pitches, same bats crumbling to dust when confronted with a ball that does anything against a decent bowler.
I mean, if the Aussie selectors are paying close attention, then the list of reject batsman from the last 5-10 years in Aussie cricket are all in the mix. But are the selectors really going to pick Renshaw, Handscomb, Marsh, Moises, Head or Harris again?