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Peter Sullivan (51)
He has been opening the batting for the last 12 months ;-) the way out top order has being going thats is.
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If he can learn the skill of playing his eye in first he,ll be very good. He and our Levy have the same problem.Warner is such a fast scorer that if he can bat for a whole session in good batting conditions he will score close to 100. It would seem to me that guaranteeing that half his first innings' are in the opening session on the first day which is one of the most difficult times to bat isn't the best way to maximise his input.
If he can learn the skill of playing his eye in first he,ll be very good. He and our Levy have the same problem.
Plus he is a LH batsman. His biggest problem is the arrogance. Only need to pull his head in a bit and understand working harder on his batting dissplines and he'll be an all time great.Tend to agree Paarl. Part of the maturing process for a batsman (or a playmaker in rugby) is knowing when it's "on" and when it's not. Warner has a tonne of talent, great timing and a good eye, but he sometimes chases deliveries that he shouldn't be. He'll eventually come to realise that he can still be successful without trying to hit the cover off every ball he faces.
Hussey is averaging 44 this year.
I like this order.Looks like Hughes has first crack. We want Hussey higher, and Watson and Warner lower.
Hughes
Cowan
Hussey
Watson
Clarke
Warner
An experience head at No3 is pretty important and Huss and Clarke are the only two you could say have it. Put the best in the most important spots and 3 & 5 are it in my view.
It's an interesting argument. A lot of older blokes (e.g. Andy Roberts and Jeff Thompson) say bowlers aren't bowling enough and other sports medicine folks say the opposite. I don't know for sure myself, but I'd like there to be some definitive science done on it, because it's becoming a real problem.
In my time being involved in athletics I saw a lot of our elite or near elite athletes develop more and more injuries. A view began to form among a lot of people that our runners in particular were over training and under competing and also training in a "high impact" manner, on rock hard tracks. I noticed it in myself too and ended up doing less in terms of hours but higher intensity. It seemed to help. The superstar coaches who came in from overseas just seemed to be flogging these guys until they broke down.
Maybe the best way to get fit for bowling is to actually bowl and spend less time in the gym or pounding the pavement? I don't know the answer to that, but I'm sure someone is attempting to find out.