3राख 2013: मालिका टीम

मालिकेदरम्यान मला आश्चर्यचकित करणारी एक गोष्ट म्हणजे पंडितांनी संबंधित विकेट कीपरची तुलना कशी केली - ब्रॅड हॅडिनला चांगली प्रेस मिळाली, जेव्हा मॅट प्रायरला थोडेसे नकारात्मक एकूण रेटिंग मिळाली. मी पाहिलेल्या गोष्टींमधून मला वाटले नाही की त्यांच्यात बरेच काही आहे, म्हणून मी विचार केला की हे कसे दिसते ते मी पाहू शकेन. मला वाटले की मी उर्वरित बाजूंसाठी देखील असेच करावे आणि मालिकेतून एखादी टीम उदयास आली की ती व्यक्ती किती चांगल्या प्रकारे खेळली हे प्रतिबिंबित करते.

त्यामुळे, त्या करार करू देते 2 men behind the wick­et first

Over­all Had­din has the frac­tion­ally bet­ter bat­ting aver­age, and undeni­ably took a lot more catches behind the wick­et. How­ever, आपण फक्त आपल्या मार्ग येतो काय पकडू शकता, 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 किंवा 2 अधिक डाव, एक आणि केले 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.

गोलंदाज

I’ve only included play­ers who bowled at least 50 overs

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 4^व्या bowl­er would be. As the 3^व्या highest wick­et taker, फलंदाजीतही तेही सुलभ जात, Stu­art Broad is the easy choice. He was also more eco­nom­ic­al than either Siddle or Starc. The final con­firm­a­tion of these 4 ते आहे 4 या 5 who had an aver­age under 30 — Tim Bresnan being the only oth­er bowl­er to achieve this.

प्रत्येक बाजूला आहे 1 very good bowl­er who is unlucky to miss out — Tim Bresnan for Eng­land and Peter Siddle for Aus­tralia. Both play­ers are hard work­ing, फलंदाजी सभ्य, 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 5^व्या 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.

फलंदाज

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)

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 नाही-आऊट (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 3^व्या 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) आणि खरं तो फक्त घेतला 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.

Pieterson एक किंचित खाली भाषेचा मालिका होती, 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, आणि धावा सर्वात आवश्यकता असते तेव्हा धावा (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, पण मी उचलले 5 वरच्या 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 (कूक & मूळ) both had to face tough­er con­di­tions as open­ing batsmen.

अंतिम ओळ-अप

1. ख्रिस रॉजर्स
2. ज्यो रूट
3. चेंडू ए एन कुकला (क)
   
4. Kev­in Pieterson
5. मायकेल क्लार्क
6. इयान बेल
7. Matt Pri­or (वाईड)
   
8. ग्रॅमी स्वान
9. Stu­art Broad
10. Ryan Har­ris
11. James Ander­son

This is a very strong but some­what unbal­anced side, फक्त 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, त्यामुळे सपाट दगडी पाट्या चालू आहेत की आता ते आनंद द्या.