rod_rooster wrote:Squids wrote:Here are some players averaging more than Marsh in the shield this season
North, Pomersbach, Ferguson, Voges, Carters, Hughes, Lynn, Forrest, Whiteman, Cooper, Burns, White, Hartley, Neville, Quiney, Head, Cowan, Dunk
Interesting that one of those in that list is a guy who despite being possibly the best pure keeper in the country, isn't considered to be good enough with the bat to be a chance of the keepers spot in the Test side (albeit Haddin has it stitched up for the time being). All whilst racking up better numbers than a bloke who just fails year after year to translate the hype into runs against the red ball.
I'd really like to hear the reasoning behind the Marsh selection. In the past when players were dropped they had to go back to first class cricket and make a mountain of runs to even get spoken of again. Seems that no longer applies.
You have rightly been telling us for years that Marsh is not up to it at Test level
You have convinced enough of us over the years, but not the selectors mate
Yes he is batting well currently in the ODIs v England
The reason why he succeeds in ODIs is the friendly bowlers he faces from about the 15-20 over mark
He faces guys like Bopara , Root, Tredwell
Facing those yummy bowlers is not a recommendation
Marsh is a lovely player of friendly bowlers
He faces them with no slips most of the time , and picks them off scoring easy runs via singles
Imagine Marsh batting 3 again in South Africa
3 -4 slips,1-2 gullys and facing Steyn Philander and Morkel
Those guys wont give him too many cheap runs , and on what I've seen all 3 will dismiss him for too many low scores