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[Number4]

Surprised Handscomb has been doing well, he was bloody rubbish in county cricket. Still, if he settles in nicely and just doesn't like English bowling then suits us fine

An average of 44.55 for Gloucestershire in 2015 from 6 games is ok to me

[InternalTraining]

Yasir gets Maddinson. Right delivery for the right field.

[Number4]

Another great ton by Smith

[Felix Tito]

Say what you want about Steven Smith but the boy knows how to score Test hundreds!
90 innings and 17 hundreds. A century every 5.29 innings.

By comparison
Kohli 90 innings and 15 hundreds. A century every 6 innings
Williamson 104 innings and 14 hundreds. A century every 7.42 innings
Root 98 innings and 12 hundreds. A century every 8.16 innings.

[wasted_talent]

He does quite true, pitches are generally getting flatter round the world, apart from Bangladesh it seems 

We are a bit up our own bottoms in this country thou, we judge Asian players on how they do in England, but don't tend to judge our own players when they go abroad 'in foreign conditions'.

Quite how you pick the very best players these days is tricky.

You could be a bit more generous thou, a double ton in Australia is a double ton abroad. 

totally agree with these thoughts.
u cant have one way to judge Asian players ie how do they fair away from home
but then don't judge the non Asian sides by their records in asia

its double standards 

[wasted_talent]

Regardless of what people may think, Azhar Ali and Asad Shafiq have been 2 great finds for Pakistan in test cricket.

There is high hopes that Babar Azam will follow in their footsteps.

And then there is the small matter of finding replacements for YK and Misbah.

[procricket]

Another great ton by Smith

You simply can not find much fault with his run scoring good player world class player and fair play he must have worked bloody hard to get to the level he is at..

[wasted_talent]

Also, I would have liked to have seen Pakistan take these 2 tours a little more seriously.

The scheduling has been poor. When they came to England, they arrived 3 weeks early and played 2 warm up games v decent opposition.

They arrived in NZ, had one warm up game scheduled which was rained off. And I just feel they were undercooked as a result for the test series.

And now in arrival to Oz, they play one warm up game against very weak opposition and then agree to playing a pink ball test match first up? Seems odd to me. Even the Saffers played the pink ball test as the last one in that series.

[wasted_talent]

Say what you want about Steven Smith but the boy knows how to score Test hundreds!
90 innings and 17 hundreds. A century every 5.29 innings.

By comparison
Kohli 90 innings and 15 hundreds. A century every 6 innings
Williamson 104 innings and 14 hundreds. A century every 7.42 innings
Root 98 innings and 12 hundreds. A century every 8.16 innings.

Not bad for a guy who scored 556 runs only in his first 22 innings at 25.

Just shows what hard work can achieve.

[rickjames]

Would be interested to see what the MCG would be like without a drop in pitch that is subsequently a road

[ElPerro]

Watched a bit live last night and saw the day review on YouTube, Steve Smith just has the most ludicrous hand eye coordination going

It's enchanting at times to watch and boy he is in the runs lately

[Manormanic]

Smith is an absolute outlier.

Where most players find they have technical problems, they go away and work to resolve them.

Smith goes away and works out how to score runs despite them.  He still plays away from his body horribly, and open the face in a way that would scream tail end in normal circumstances.  But...he has learnt how to leave the ball, so the former is less of a problem, and uses the latter to play half-defensive shots that score, so it becomes a strength. 

[Number4]

Rain keeps on saving the Aussies Australians Pakistan

[rickjames]

Sohail should be playing for the Sydney Thunder with drops like that

[rickjames]

Starc > most BBL batsman