كان أحد الأشياء التي فاجأتني خلال المسلسل هو كيف قارن النقاد حراس الويكيت المعنيين - مع حصول براد هادن على صحافة جيدة, بينما حصل Matt Prior على تقييم سلبي بشكل طفيف. مما رأيت لم أكن أعتقد أن هناك الكثير للاختيار بينهما, لذلك اعتقدت أنني سأرى كيف تتراكم الأرقام. كنت أحسب أنني قد أفعل الشيء نفسه لبقية الأطراف ومعرفة ما إذا ظهر فريق من السلسلة يعكس مدى لعب الأفراد.
وبالتالي, يتيح صفقة مع تلك 2 men behind the wicket first
المصيد | [ستثمبينغس / عموميات تشغيل | نوبات | أشواط | Average | 50ق | 100ق | درجة عالية | لا عموميات | |
Matt Prior | 18 | 2 | 8 | 133 | 19.00 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 1 |
Brad Haddin | 28 | 0 | 10 | 206 | 22.89 | 2 | 0 | 71 | 1 |
Overall Haddin has the fractionally better batting average, and undeniably took a lot more catches behind the wicket. However, يمكنك التقاط فقط ما يأتي في طريقك, so a more telling number would be the number of missed opportunities. Missed opportunities are hard to quantify of course. The batting numbers aren’t different enough to justify picking 1 player over the other, and had Prior played 1 أو 2 المزيد من أدوار, وقدمت 50, the averages would be near enough equal.
Regardless of the views of the pundits, on balance I’d pick Prior. Firstly I have a sense that Haddin made more mistakes behind the wicket with a few missed chances. Secondly, I have a greater faith that Prior would be the man in a pressure situation — despite a good effort Haddin failed to see Australia through to victory in the first test.
الرماه
I’ve only included players who bowled at least 50 overs
المبالغ | أشواط | Wickets | Average | Economy | |
جرايم سوان | 249 | 755 | 26 | 29.04 | 3.03 |
Ryan Harris | 162.1 | 470 | 24 | 19.58 | 2.90 |
Stuart Broad | 185.5 | 604 | 22 | 27.45 | 3.25 |
James Anderson | 205.4 | 651 | 22 | 29.59 | 3.17 |
بيتر Siddle | 189.5 | 537 | 17 | 31.59 | 2.83 |
ميتشل ستارك | 120 | 357 | 11 | 32.45 | 2.98 |
تيم Bresnan | 91 | 296 | 10 | 29.60 | 3.25 |
Nathan Lyon | 118.1 | 303 | 9 | 33.67 | 2.56 |
James Pattinson | 91.1 | 307 | 7 | 43.86 | 3.37 |
Shane Watson | 85.3 | 179 | 2 | 89.50 | 2.09 |
أشتون آجار | 84 | 248 | 2 | 124.00 | 2.95 |
The numbers match up fairly well with who I’d pick for my team. Anyone who watched any of the series would be able to pick Graeme Swann, Ryan Harris & James Anderson without a hesitation, leaving the only question who the 4العاشر bowler would be. As the 3بحث وتطوير highest wicket taker, ويجري سهل جدا مع الخفافيش, Stuart Broad is the easy choice. He was also more economical than either Siddle or Starc. The final confirmation of these 4 هي أنها 4 ل 5 who had an average under 30 — Tim Bresnan being the only other bowler to achieve this.
كل طرف لديه 1 very good bowler who is unlucky to miss out — Tim Bresnan for England and Peter Siddle for Australia. Both players are hard working, لائق مع الخفافيش, and contribute well in the field. Bresnan took his wickets slightly cheaper, whilst Siddle was a bit more economical per over bowled and both picked up key wickets at key times. The choice between them would probably come down to the flip of a coin if a 5العاشر bowler was going to be picked.
The balance of the bowlers for varying conditions also works out very well. Swann is the best spinner in the world at the moment and Anderson is one of the top 2 bowlers outright with wonderful control and an ability to find swing in any conditions. Broad has the ability to both move the ball and bowl genuinely fast to pressure any batsman who struggles with short pitched deliveries. Harris is consistently accurate and has a skiddy speed which will unsettle even quality batsmen on good surfaces. Neither side has a really top class genuinely fast bowler which is the only chink in the quality of the attack.
المضرب
I’ve only included genuine batsmen, and have excluded a couple of the Aussie batsmen who only played in the first or second test (and didn’t do well)
نوبات | أشواط | Average | 50ق | 100ق | درجة عالية | لم يخرج | |
إيان بيل | 10 | 562 | 62.44 | 2 | 3 | 113 | 1 |
مايكل كلارك | 10 | 381 | 47.63 | 1 | 1 | 187 | 2 |
Shane Watson | 10 | 418 | 41.80 | 1 | 1 | 176 | |
كريس روجرز | 9 | 367 | 40.78 | 2 | 1 | 110 | |
كيفن بيترسن | 10 | 388 | 38.80 | 3 | 1 | 113 | |
ستيف سميث | 10 | 345 | 38.33 | 2 | 1 | 138 | 1 |
جو الجذر | 10 | 339 | 37.67 | 1 | 1 | 180 | 1 |
جوناثان تروت | 10 | 293 | 29.30 | 2 | 0 | 59 | |
Jonny Bairstow | 7 | 203 | 29.00 | 1 | 1 | 67 | |
اليستر كوك | 10 | 277 | 27.70 | 3 | 0 | 62 | |
David Warner | 6 | 138 | 23.00 | 1 | 0 | 71 | |
Usman Khawaja | 6 | 114 | 19.00 | 1 | 0 | 54 |
Picking a batting line up is far less straight-forward then a bowling attack. Ian Bell is the only batsman who can be picked without having to think. Michael Clarke also has a good average but is helped by 2 لا الرافضة (as a result of declarations). That said, Clarke is a world-class batsman and it would be pretty hard to justify leaving him out of the side.
The remaining 4 are trickier to select. Shane Watson is useful with the ball and made the 3بحث وتطوير highest average, but he has a tendency to make runs when they don’t matter, and get out when a score is needed. I also haven’t yet picked any openers, and Watson didn’t play well as an opener (and isn’t consistent enough) والواقع انه استغرق فقط 2 wickets means he’s not going to make the team. Chris Rogers surprised me and had a much better series than I expected him to. He improved as the series went on and he was a very calm and consistent player — ideal as an opener. As a result he makes the team.
كان بيترسون وهو أقل بقليل من سلسلة الاسمية, however he had to find form early on having just returned from an injury he was clearly still carrying throughout the last test. His ability to make game changing runs, وليسجل عندما تشتد الحاجة أشواط (and his sheer entertainment value) definitely gets him a place.
I still need another opener and the remaining choice is between the “bar fight 2”. The numbers make this easy, and Root’s reasonable average is particularly impressive given the pressure he was under making his opening debut in such a key series. He is also a much more careful player than Warner which is better suited to test cricket, and he showed he is a quick learner by improving his technique as the series went on.
This leaves just a final batsman to pick. The numbers say Steve Smith but I wasn’t at all convinced that he was a test batsman. Without his 1 high score and his “not out” innings enhancing it, his average would be under 21 which is a more accurate reflection of the series he had. Khawaja had a very poor series and is out of the picture so that leaves the choice of Trott, Bairstow and Cook. Despite his disappointing series with the bat it’s easy to pick the Ashes winning captain as the captain for the whole team, especially if he were a touch down the order to relieve the pressure that opening and being captain brings.
The numbers and my line up aren’t quite a match, ولكني قد التقطت 5 من أعلى 7 by numbers and added in Alastair Cook, who despite his disappointing series would be hard to leave out. The 2 who miss out — Shane Watson and Steve Smith have both managed to produce numbers that very much flatter the reality of how well they played. This is doubly so when you consider that the 2 players I have picked instead (طبخ & جذر) both had to face tougher conditions as opening batsmen.
النهائي خط المتابعة
- كريس روجرز
- جو الجذر
- اليستر كوك (ج)
- Kevin Pieterson
- مايكل كلارك
- إيان بيل
- Matt Prior (ث)
- جرايم سوان
- Stuart Broad
- Ryan Harris
- James Anderson
This is a very strong but somewhat unbalanced side, مع فقط 3 Australians compared to 8 Englishmen. However, England have just won 3–0 and were good money for that scoreline. No-one would have blinked if a similar “best of” team from the 90’s was largely Australian, لذلك دعونا نستمتع الآن أن الجداول تحولت.
أعتقد أننا فقدنا شيء ما? دعنا نعلم بتعليقك بالأسفل. إذا كنت ترغب في الاشتراك يرجى استخدام الرابط الاشتراك في القائمة في اعلى اليمين. يمكنك أيضا مشاركة هذا مع أصدقائك باستخدام الروابط الاجتماعية أدناه. في صحتك.
Cook’s career record isn’t in doubt but his performance in this series doesn’t merit selection in a combined eleven in my view. I’d want Watto in my eleven for his all round options, batting at 3 or 6.
I know what you mean, J A Scaife, re Cook’s record. It has been poor by his lofty standards. But Watson would be the last man on any team sheet for me. I know it’s hard to evaluate all the gossip coming out of dressing rooms but it would appear he isn’t a ‘team’ player. The ‘homework’ scandal and a devotion to trying to save his own skin by referring almost every decision against him all point to this. And his series was dominated by one big innings — scored when it didn’t matter when two debutants were bowling against him. He does bring a useful back up seam option to the side — but for me it’s not enough for him to get in.
I picked Cook primarily as he got a lot right as Captain. I’m not sold on Michael Clarke as a captain — he can’t keep his players under control , whereas the England players apparently love Cook and did the business under his stewardship.
If Captaincy weren’t an issue then I’d probably go with Steve Smith rather than Watson. If we exclude Watson’s 176 on a sunny flat track against 2 debutants Smith would have scored 100 more runs, and he took more wickets as well.
When it came down to it though I just couldn’t pick Smith — he just isn’t test match class for me. I was picking the players I’d want for the next match, not just the top 11 from the stats.
If it came down to Cook or Smith for the next match it wouldn’t take a split second to choose Cook, regardless of his form in the series.