Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Reply #686 –
Aus have always had this allrounder fetish to find ourselves a Botham to play at No 6...tried for years with Watson to no avail and seem destined to keep trying with M. Marsh..
That is the issue....it was re-inforced when Flintoff did the job on the Aussies in 2005 as well. Trouble is, he was an elite fast bowlers who was good enough to bat at #6. We cannot keep trying bit part players who could not get a gig at one or the other. Gilchrist didn't even bat at 6 in his career....and he was the one keeper who could have. But how devastating for the opposition was it for him to listed at #7 !!!