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[400notout]

How many people score runs when they are in bad nick? you can't single him out just because his technique isn't perfect. Also, surely the Saffa's would have seen that he looked weak on the front foot? They are international bowlers, surely they are clever enough to pick up and hone in on this so called weakness, however they didn't so they must have had quite a good reason not to? Going by all the video analysist software, someone would have picked up on his flaws, even in half an innings.

[slogger02]

international bowlers ought to be able to spot major flaws in a batsmen within a matter of overs.

[Outlaw]

Hughes is the second leading run scorer in Australian domestic cricket this season aged 20, I'm sorry but you don't score runs consistantly in the toughest domestic competition in the world if you dont have something about you. He doesn't look pretty but he will get the job done, people will say he will get worked out, if bowlers bowl good balls you wait for the bad ball and one thing he has got going for him is that he has a very very good eye. He will develop mentally the more he plays once he is adjusted upstairs there will be no stopping him. Current number one test batsman, I'm sure when he burst on the scene many people though, look at his technique he will get found out easily but no he makes the most of what he's got and combined with great mental strength has turned himself into a consistant world class performer.

[Sambo]

Geez, that brian lara didn't have perfect technique, look how well he did.

[sultanofswing]

if you all like we can get phil hughes to bend over, we can light a fire and blow smoke up his (No Swearing Please) all day...

[E-Unit]

wait till he fails, then everyone will shut up and start critising his front foot, in my opinion he needs to get a stronger front foot defenence, doesnt have to look pretty but at the moment it just isnt quite up to scratch..

[Johnny]

Quick, someone get on the blower to the ECB - we appear to have some fantastic batting experts here, maybe they can sort out the England top 6

[400notout]

Everyone's entitled to their opinion, and I think it would take a lot more than a few experts to sort out Englands selectors top 6

[sultanofswing]

i thought the subject was phil hughes, not the england top 6?

[slogger02]

he's just hit 115 against SA, he can't be as bad as some of you are suggesting!

[sultanofswing]

one swallow doesnt make a summer, or something to that effect

[Outlaw]

Scored his first hundred at a younger age than Bradman, not a bad effort! His innings today was a fine contrast from the scratchy 75 on debut.

[AtBalfour]

Great knock from what I have seen of it, great confidence in the nineties too!

[will5210]

Looked good to me but the SAF bowlers bowled poorly as a group. Nice to see an opener going along at a positive strike rate.
Re the ashes, i can't think of any of our bowlers who'd have the weaponry to cause him any more problems than steyn. Sidebottom on top form maybe? Could hughes be suspect against away swing?

[art]

I like the poor umpiring comment. there are two really difficult decisions in cricket. Seeing/hearing the faint edge onto the pad when the ball is over 145k's an hour and the other is a flick down the legside when the batsman is obscuring the view of the umpire. Even the square leg umpire often cannot help.

But to this simple umpire what it shows is that keepers and others behind the bat often have no idea what has happened during the journey of a ball. The non referral backs my statement up. But hey the experts will always start bitching if a decsion doesn't go their way because they know what happened. Lol.