Lightning McQueen wrote:amber_fluid wrote:Lightning McQueen wrote:Head (A+)
Hunt (A)
Carey (A)
Lehmann (A)
Kerber (A)
Nielsen (B+)
Weathers (B-)
Hunt done very well in the toughest position, hard to judge Kerber on one outing but you can only make the most of your opportunities, Nielsen showed promise for a developing player, hopefully he continues to grow as we'll see less of Carey before too long.
Lehmann had a nice return but batted when the heat was out, would love to see him with them returns batting at 4 or 5.
The bowling numbers are embarrassing, we need a Siddle or Bird to spearhead our attack. On a bright note, at least the bowling returns were poor across the board.
You’re too generous mate.
They finished bottom not top.
I know it was mainly our bowlers but stats don’t show when batters made their runs.
Not enough runs when the heat was on.
Probably, I'm in a good mood atm, it won't take long to be driven into the round and pummeled like a $20 hooker.
I don't think you're being generous because the stats show that SA was the second highest scoring team this season and the stats would show when batsmen make their runs, you'd just have to really look into it and come up with a way of showing the stats in a way that showed the batsman didn't make runs when they really need to (maybe making a low score when chasing a target compared to the team making a 300 plus score or something like that, first and second innings runs difference) but runs are needed all the time in cricket so to suggest they didn't get runs when needed is an inaccurate view IMO because teams ALWAYS need runs no matter what situation of a match. Sometimes players make runs and sometimes they don't, that's cricket and consistent is obviously something they all strive for.
The Sheffield Shield ladder on MyCricket worked for me this morning, I'm not trying to defend the batsmen here I'm just trying to show runs or batting weren't the issue for South Australia this season, clearly it was not taking wickets.