Haarithan;3526470 said:
Meh I wasn't "qualifying" anything at the first place. Agreed '12 tests' isn't anywhere close to a huge sample space, but that is exactly what I meant initially and I know that for myself, so it's really only up to you to believing it. I honestly don't care.
Anyway I think you lot should be moving Watson down the order. Honestly looks shocking as an opener against the new ball. Exposed wayyy too many times by the English seamers. Especially those LBW dismissals.
We've tried Watson down the order many times and he is far and away at his best opening.
He is best when the ball comes on to the bat, and playing straight through the line.
The issue is, Anderson gets it reversing after about fifteen overs **ahem** sugary mint saliva **ahem**, and he also has developed a rather large flaw of falling across his wickets for an LBW.
Moving him down finely definitely isn't the answer though. Tried that before and it really didn't work. As an all rounder, we would prefer him further down, but unfortunately it just wasn't working.
We just need batsman who are willing to dig in and try and play through the tough periods. Phil Hughes did it in the first test. Khawaja looked like he was doing it this test. And apart from that, we've been gutless.
This last test we were atrocious. We were out played completely.
That said, the umpiring hasn't been great, the DRS calls this test against Agar and Hughes were terrible. Rogers was very unlucky first innings (the ball was missing a mile - he should have disputed) and Haddin was unlucky too. We'd have lost anyway, but it doesn't help us build any confidence or momentum. Funny how when you're down, everything starts going against you
(Btw you were qualifying - by qualifying I mean putting criteria on a specific point to make it true - eg. "I'm the best admin on SG, that lives in Sydney". Even if your initial intention was exactly as you tell me, 12 matches, you have qualified the sample space down to such a small size that the initial point was rather meaningless)
