Australia Day Weekend T20's

[lemmon]

Quite a new look squad, fair bit of experience, obviously hoping to reward Big Bash form:

Australia Twenty20 squad: George Bailey (capt), Ben Cutting, Xavier Doherty, James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Ben Laughlin, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Adam Voges, Matthew Wade, David Warner

I'm expecting a reasonable turn out to be honest, its a great time of the year and say what you want about the format but its a winner with kids and parents.

[LostDoggy]

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Good to see Laughlin in. I know it's the in thing to bowl three slow balls an over currently, but i haven't seen someone control them as well as him.

[bulldogtragic]

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4 openers. Interesting where they will all bat.

[Eastdog]

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20/20 cricket is definitely entertaining to watch and you get a result in a few hours. Imagine if you had a Viv Richards playing 20/20 cricket - that would be great to watch.

[GVGjr]

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I don't rate T20 as an International game but this looks to be a very a solid T20 side.

Marsh needs to make every step a good one. He must be on his final chance.

[lemmon]

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Most impressive thing has been the performance of Faulkner, very good short form bowler

[Greystache]

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Surely there's more capable death bowlers than Laughlin. He has 3 types of delivery only- Short and slow, half volley and slow, half volley and fast. Some of these trundlers that get games as limited overs bowlers are very very ordinary, 6 half track slower balls an over isn't bowling variety!

[lemmon]

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Surely there's more capable death bowlers than Laughlin. He has 3 types of delivery only- Short and slow, half volley and slow, half volley and fast. Some of these trundlers that get games as limited overs bowlers are very very ordinary, 6 half track slower balls an over isn't bowling variety!

I blame Bailey just as much, surely he realised after Sydney that he isn't a death bowler? He makes some seriously questionable calls as skipper

[GVGjr]

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Most impressive thing has been the performance of Faulkner, very good short form bowler

Do you think he could he transition into a test bowler?
He's been picked for the first two ODI's as Henriques replacement.

[GVGjr]

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Surely there's more capable death bowlers than Laughlin. He has 3 types of delivery only- Short and slow, half volley and slow, half volley and fast. Some of these trundlers that get games as limited overs bowlers are very very ordinary, 6 half track slower balls an over isn't bowling variety!

I haven't watched much of it but should he have been picked given his previous performance?

[Greystache]

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I blame Bailey just as much, surely he realised after Sydney that he isn't a death bowler? He makes some seriously questionable calls as skipper

It's hard to know whether Bailey has been told that Laughlin is the go to man at the death and he is to use him, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt there. But even if he has been told that, he could at least hide him from the final over. Bailey's fields were also pretty poor, it's hard when you've got a bowler that puts it in a spot that the batsmen can hit with power to virtually any part of the ground, but each batsmen has their "go to" area (such as backward of point to Jayawardene) and he didn't do anything to cover it off.

Terrible bowling and poor captaincy is a pretty bad combination.

[lemmon]

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Do you think he could he transition into a test bowler?
He's been picked for the first two ODI's as Henriques replacement.

I think he'll have a Luke Butterworth type career in that watching him he isn't all that impressive, not the quickest, doesn't do a heap with it through the air or off the seam but gets everything out of the deck down in Tassie. Ben Hilfenhaus suffered from the same syndrome for a while and the only way to get selected are results year after year. He's young and his numbers are promising but he is a long way back in the longer form with the current stable of quicks. I'm not particularly sold on his action either, falls over through the crease and is quite slingy, doesn't have the pristine action of someone like a Coulter-Nile.

The other thing is his handy batting but again its in the Luke Butterworth mold of being a test match number 8 and 'handy' but not a genuine all-rounder. All he can do is put up consistent number and take on more responsibility for Tassie, for the most part he has been behind Bird, Butterworth and Hilfenhaus when he has been down there, in the pecking order

[lemmon]

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It's hard to know whether Bailey has been told that Laughlin is the go to man at the death and he is to use him, so I'll give him the benefit of the doubt there. But even if he has been told that, he could at least hide him from the final over. Bailey's fields were also pretty poor, it's hard when you've got a bowler that puts it in a spot that the batsmen can hit with power to virtually any part of the ground, but each batsmen has their "go to" area (such as backward of point to Jayawardene) and he didn't do anything to cover it off.

Terrible bowling and poor captaincy is a pretty bad combination.

I think we're drawing a long bow if we're starting to suggest that Baileys bowling changes are anyone's other than his own, was the same in the World T20, specifically with Doherty and Gayle.

Finch fails again, looks overawed, as does Marsh

[lemmon]

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Have to love the ridiculous officialdom of cricket sometimes