There is a method in selection of Australian players by Australian selectors, For example Brad Hodge has best first class record comapred to Simon Katich and Michale Clarke but what is his performance for Australian team, Australian selectors selected Michal Clarke as future captain of Australian team and he is goin to succeed Ricky Ponting :-)
S.Katich First class record M - 205 Avg. - 54.55 100s - 47 HS - 305
M.Clarke first class record M - 107 Avg. - 45.07 100s - 25 HS - 201
Now compare who is better. Both players have equal test record. But Ponting destroyed the career of a talented batsman. S.Waugh gave Katich chance in middle order.
Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by Bhasmasur Rakshas on Aug 04, 2009 04:09 PM
Simon Katich is a good sold batsman but on difficult pitches and in difficult conditions, Australia hev been extricated out of a tricky corner by Michael Clarke...not once but several times.....
Michael Clarke has temperament and talent both.......Katich has talent but lacks temperament at the highest level to be called a great player...i would put him is the same league as Damien Martyn...solid and workmanlike with talent but lacking in big match temperament.....
Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by Forrest Gump on Aug 04, 2009 04:00 PM
Katich is just a 50s man in international ckt,....while Clarke has already saved Aus one test in recent ashes and almost won them one test in the series....clarke has much more talent which u can see in his performances in international cricket all around the globe.
Re: Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by Anurag Rathore on Aug 04, 2009 04:02 PM
How do you see both players performance against SA where Australia was struggling?
Re: Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by sati savitri on Aug 04, 2009 04:09 PM
Wha about abusing legends like Amitabh Bachhan and insulting @Indian @gods....and praising SRK bigger than @god (source: your posts in other articles)...
y did u replied my posts...don't bother about it...I am able to make my both ends meet.
Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by nitin patidar on Aug 04, 2009 03:56 PM
anurag how can ponting destroy career of katich ,its depend on board who will play or not , not like indian board , where player play on basis of politics
Re: Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by deewaker pandey on Aug 04, 2009 04:05 PM
selectors select last 15 players bt thereafter its up to team mgmt to decide who wll play n who wll nt. here captain has a major role.
Re: Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by Anurag Rathore on Aug 04, 2009 04:01 PM
If Katich is in 15 then he must be in playing X1 but he gave chance to P.Jaques but not Katich.
Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by Sachin zindabad on Aug 04, 2009 03:56 PM
Who cares about first class record, If u go on basis of first class record MS Dhoni should not have been selected in the Indian A team also :-)
Re: Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by Anurag Rathore on Aug 04, 2009 03:58 PM
It's about Aussies domestic cricket which is 100 times better than Indian domestic cricket.
Re: Re: Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by Sachin zindabad on Aug 04, 2009 04:02 PM
There is a method in selection of Australian players by Australian selectors, For example Brad Hodge has best first class record comapred to Simon Katich and Michale Clarke but what is his performance for Australian team, Australian selectors selected Michal Clarke as future captain of Australian team and he is goin to succeed Ricky Ponting :-)
Re: Re: Re: Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by Anurag Rathore on Aug 04, 2009 04:08 PM
Thats why Aus is struggling nowadays. They don't have captain like S.Waugh who backed B.Lee, D.Martyn, Langer etc.
Aus selectors have gone mad and result Aus is going to loose against Eng.
Re: Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by Sachin zindabad on Aug 04, 2009 03:57 PM
There is no need to destroy the career of the laziest cricketer or for that matter sportsperson in this world, Even if he bowls 10 overs Munaf Patel will not play for 3 years :-)
Re: Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by Anurag Rathore on Aug 04, 2009 03:59 PM
Ponting not onle destroyed the career of Katich, he also destroyed the career of Bracken, Gillespie, I.Harvey, S.Tait and the new name is Symonds.
Re: Re: Re: Re: S.Katich VS M.Clarke
by Sachin zindabad on Aug 04, 2009 04:05 PM
There is no need to destroy a person who is carrying a atom bomb in his chadd-i :-)
Recently there was an article in TOI which compared Irfan's avg to rest of the current seamers of India.....funny thing was all of them had averages above 33 and Strike Rates above 40 in ODIs in last 10 matches...compare that to Agarkar who was dropped uncremoniously from ODIs when he was having average less than 30 and SR less than 35 in his last 20 matches....still he can outdo these seamers in ODIs....unless politics by Srikanth and co is involved, i don't see any other reason for keeping out Agarkar considering none of the current pacers are doing well....
Re: What is happening with Agarkar
by Sachin zindabad on Aug 04, 2009 03:52 PM
How long will Ajait Agarkar rest on his past laurels, Earlier he has best strike rate of 28 now it has come down to 35,How long will u talk about his performances when he was a youngster, What about his performances now-a-days, Even local players are smashing him to all corners of the park, Even his performance for Mumbai is absurd, Even a medium talented bowler like Dhawal Kulkarni is dominating him in Mumbai Team :-)
Re: Re: Re: What is happening with Agarkar
by Sachin zindabad on Aug 04, 2009 04:21 PM
Is there any meaning in comparing a gr8 player like Viru Sehwag who has scored 2 300's to that of a Ajit Agarkar who scored 7 golden ducks in Australia, Ajit Agarkar was known more as a bowling all-rounder but his batting was doin more talk than his bowling, Same case with other m0r0ns like Irfan Pathan, Praveen Kumar and Ravindra jadeja :-)
Re: What is happening with Agarkar
by deewaker pandey on Aug 04, 2009 03:52 PM
india never had dominating pacer except kapil. so ys the bowlers who r in the team right nw r nt consistent. no doubt. so if agarkar is doin well , he mst b given the chance in ODI. he has gud recrd in ODI.
Re: Re: What is happening with Agarkar
by Forrest Gump on Aug 04, 2009 03:59 PM
well said pandey...agarkar deserves a chance again considering his ODI record...thats all my point...he can contribute at least till 2011 wc....
Re: Re: Re: What is happening with Agarkar
by kalpesh shah on Aug 04, 2009 04:12 PM
if agarkar get chance than forget to win a club or galli match. 20 failure with bat ball and feilding after 1 success.
Re: Current Aus line-up.....
by Anurag Rathor on Aug 04, 2009 03:43 PM
What are you talking, man? Do u have any idea .... With Ponting, Hussey and Clarke you go and choose Katich?
Re: Current Aus line-up.....
by NoxiusGassius on Aug 04, 2009 03:47 PM
Basically, the captain of winning ashes team sh**ts into the urn, once it is dry it is burnt to ashes. These ashes are never thrown away it just keeps piling up. This has been going on for 127 years the reason for the odd number(ashes are played once every 2 years) is that one year the winning captain was constipated and could not give his bit and hence the ashes had to be postphoned ... they are big on tradition! The other interesting fact is that is predicted that the urn will be full of sh**t by 2019 which has all elders in MCC quite worried as you can well imagine!
When the urn was built a 127 years ago it was predicted to last till 2015 but a couple of years extra was added because of the constipated captain, the other 2 years was added because of a similar reason ... when Australia defeated Jardine's English team the aussie captain's ahole had become so tight from clenching it every time Larwood threw down a bouncer that he did not have very much to give at the end. The preciseness of the english on display again ..offcourse we in India have been privileged to see this preciseness all around us, wow!
Re: Current Aus line-up.....
by Sachin zindabad on Aug 04, 2009 03:43 PM
iI=I think Michale Clarke is their best batsman coz he has played tremendous knocks both times in pressure situation, He deserves to be captain of Australian team after Ricky Ponting is saked as captain of Australian team after this ashes :-)
Re: Re: Current Aus line-up.....
by deewaker pandey on Aug 04, 2009 03:49 PM
he wll b captain after ponting. no doubt. bt ponting wll b captain till WC 2011. CA has declared 30 possible players for WC widponting captain. clarke will probably cm after tht.
Re: Re: Re: Current Aus line-up.....
by Sachin zindabad on Aug 04, 2009 03:54 PM
Ricky Ponting may have been appointed captain till 2011 but once Australia lose this ashes, The Australian selectors will press panic button and make Michale Clarke as next captain :-)
Shame on those guyz who r admiring Aussie team and Ricky Pointing. Recently all @Indians at Australians hv gon through Racial and aubsive attacks and still u r adoring them. Shame on u.
how early u can forget the torture and treatment all Indians hv got from Aussies. Adding woes to that they not taken any strigent steps to prevent those miscreants. They want to show us our place and realise that @we r @beggars and @we enjoy it @humiliating ourselves.
Re: Re: Shame
by sati savitri on Aug 04, 2009 03:57 PM
Wha about abusing legends like Amitabh Bachhan and insulting @Indian @gods....and praising SRK bigger than @god (source: your posts in other articles)...
y did u replied my posts...don't bother about it...I am able to make my both ends meet.
I feel Micheal Clarke will be the player to watch in next 2-5 years....Ponting is on the decline...once Sachin retires from ODI format after 2011 WC,he will focus just on tests and at that time will score one hundred after the other in tests till 2013....
Re: Micheal Clarke is more talented than Ponting
by Sachin zindabad on Aug 04, 2009 03:46 PM
Michale Clarke will be captain of Australian team after this ashes tour coz Ricky Ponting will be sacked as captain :-)
Re: Re: Micheal Clarke is more talented than Ponting
by Forrest Gump on Aug 04, 2009 03:53 PM
ponting has already been reinstated captain till 2011 wc...
