Re: New Zealand in Australia
This isn't "cotton wool treatment". This is sensible player management with an eye to the future. Warner has shown that he has the ability to make big scores very quickly against world class attacks. He is capable of scoring anywhere on the ground (despite what some on here have claimed, while cow-corner is his favourite area, he is also very good at dropping and running, and he can drive all around the park, cut, glance and play orthodox pull shots as well). His problem is putting it all together on the big stage, and the only way to do that is through match practice on the big stage.
If, by the end of the series, he hasn't impressed much, fine, don't pick him for our next ODI series. But to drop him mid-series when no other openers are really pushing to get a spot in the side after what has not been a particularly disappointing set of performances so far (2 very good innings in the T20 and ODI formats, and one very unluckily cut short in which he was looking fantastic, and a few early failures), would not be smart player management in my humble opinion.
namdarb;322586 said:
This isn't "cotton wool treatment". This is sensible player management with an eye to the future. Warner has shown that he has the ability to make big scores very quickly against world class attacks. He is capable of scoring anywhere on the ground (despite what some on here have claimed, while cow-corner is his favourite area, he is also very good at dropping and running, and he can drive all around the park, cut, glance and play orthodox pull shots as well). His problem is putting it all together on the big stage, and the only way to do that is through match practice on the big stage.
If, by the end of the series, he hasn't impressed much, fine, don't pick him for our next ODI series. But to drop him mid-series when no other openers are really pushing to get a spot in the side after what has not been a particularly disappointing set of performances so far (2 very good innings in the T20 and ODI formats, and one very unluckily cut short in which he was looking fantastic, and a few early failures), would not be smart player management in my humble opinion.
