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You must be looking at a different cricketer than the one I’m seeing Maxwell is a flat track bully nothing more. Great ball striker i’ll Give you but you cant build a test side around more than one of these in the line up.
 
Mappa said:
You must be looking at a different cricketer than the one I’m seeing Maxwell is a flat track bully nothing more. Great ball striker i’ll Give you but you cant build a test side around more than one of these in the line up.
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Maxwell oozes talent. You cannot play the range of shots he has without a great eye and great footwork. He seems to be developing the application/mental side of his game. If he puts it all together look out, agree with spook he has more talent than most other cricketers in oz. Or the world for that matter.
 
Mappa said:
You must be looking at a different cricketer than the one I’m seeing Maxwell is a flat track bully nothing more. Great ball striker i’ll Give you but you cant build a test side around more than one of these in the line up.
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You mustn't have been looking at his batting in the India Test series earlier this year.
 
Maxwell has a very good technique, old if not better than Hodge, he also has a better eye, is a better fielder & pretty handy spin bowler. All told he is a damn fine cricketer who deserves to be in the National Test team.
 
The thing is with cricket selectors is that they purport that there’s criteria for selection and players must meet that criteria eg go back to state level and make runs/take wickets.

When in fact they just select the 12 they want and the previous criteria is thrown out the window and new criteria is bought in to justify selection.

And some times it works and some times it doesn’t.
 
With a bowling line up like we have , I don’t think it matters who else plays against the Poms, though they may improve in time they’d have to be close to the worst side they have sent out since they stopped coming on boats.
 
TT33 said:
Maxwell has a very good technique, old if not better than Hodge, he also has a better eye, is a better fielder & pretty handy spin bowler. All told he is a damn fine cricketer who deserves to be in the National Test team.
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Maxwell reminds me of Andrew Symonds, not entirely sure what his role is in the test side, and not given a sustained run at it.
Once Symonds got in and stayed in he developed into a decent test cricketer. Maxwell needs the same opportunity.
 
bigwow said:
Maxwell reminds me of Andrew Symonds, not entirely sure what his role is in the test side, and not given a sustained run at it.
Once Symonds got in and stayed in he developed into a decent test cricketer. Maxwell needs the same opportunity.
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Another thing they have in common is fielding, 2 of the best I’ve seen.
 
Brodders17 said:
Another failure by S. Marsh. true to form.
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If you define failure as not reaching 50, even Bradman failed in 50% of his innings. Smith has failed in 60% of his. The team added 69 runs while Marsh was in. That's a good - not great - partnership.

Tigers of Old said:
Yet another 100 for Smith..
Best since Bradman? Now in the conversation.
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He's incredible.
 
pete and tys said:
Just saw a Tigers singlet at the WACA when Smith got 200. Very appropriate.
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I second that, I saw it too. We are everywhere and always have been.
 
Has anyone ever started their test century career with a double? I feel sorry for Handscomb.
 
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