Comments on: Fawad Ahmed and Australian spin belief

By: daneel

daneel — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 18:07:25 +0000

In reply to awbraae. People always get better when they aren't in the team, didn't you know? Michael Beer will be back soon. Or Steve O'Keefe will get picked.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 08:55:57 +0000

In reply to awbraae. This is exactly it. They believe that there's something better out there, despite there being no evidence whatsoever that that's the case.

By: Tybalt

Tybalt — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 04:57:39 +0000

In reply to awbraae. I think the same way, Lyon deserves his chance, but he's not getting it as he's been dropped in this Test for Xavier Bloody Doherty.

By: awbraae

awbraae — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 03:51:36 +0000

I struggle to see what is so awful about Nathan Lyon too, he has a test average of 33 and he is 25. Are those numbers really so terrible given that Aussie pitches tend not to suit spinners?

By: The Smudge

The Smudge — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:43:35 +0000

In reply to The Smudge. I realise I am being caddishly unjust to Tahir by the comparison and for that matter to South Africa. They've more decided as they are the best team in the world they really ought to find a decent spinner, rather than the Aussies who, on pretty flimsy evidence,feel that they have a God given right to one. However I do feel that Tahir's importedness has given a him cachet that other out of their depth players would lack.

By: King Cricket

King Cricket — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:56:15 +0000

In reply to The Smudge. And Tahir has a cracking first-class record. We were going to go into that in the article but then decided it was already too long and too boring.

By: The Smudge

The Smudge — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:28:17 +0000

Having no top class domestic spinner so assuming that an ex-Pakistani must be the answer to their prayers is working out well for South Africa.

By: sam

sam — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:44:50 +0000

He bowls to the left…

He bowls to the right…

That Fawad Ahmed…

He’s not yet qualified to play international cricket for Australia

By: Deep Cower

Deep Cower — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 16:00:55 +0000

They are looking to construct a fairy tale. Might well happen, who knows? I saw a youtube video of Fawaz, and he comes across a nice fellow. So good luck to him.

Australia seem to want to make all spin decisions before/during a tour to the sub-continent. So they pick some guy who duly gets plastered by Sehwag and co. This makes him appear worse than he actually is, and instead of giving him an extended run, they rinse and repeat. They should take a good, long look at these figures:
45-7-150-1 – that was Warne’s debut against India. It would’ve been worse if it was in India. Much worse.

By: Bert

Bert — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:37:58 +0000

In reply to Ged.

“Under wordy ICC rules…”

So when can he play?

Dunno, have you read the ICC rules?

Here they are, let’s have a go – Should a player who is not a national of that country but who has been granted residency in that country… Jeez, I’m not reading all of this, there’s more than six lines of it!

OK, put February then. Who’s gonna know?