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Message: [QUOTE="Fitzy, post: 3584413, member: 9881"] Look up Charlie Wakim (fucken sucks). He is our only other batter. Don’t see how you can remotely question his place in the team when he was in an undefeated team before being dropped where only Jimmy Peirson and Max Bryant were behind him (neither can play his role at 3) and now that the team is very different there is literally nobody else (except Charlie wakim). Still averages mid 20’s in t20 cricket. He is a great player to have in our previous full strength environment but in a shit side he isn’t going to do much for you but neither is anybody else in our side currently. Nobody has even remotely suggested that McSweeney is a gun t20 player, ever. But why drop your number 3 when your 5 has done **** all and the bloke taking his spot is only there for a game. You are relying on someone to bat 3 and captain the side and you dropped him a game before he had to step up and become a much more integral part of the side in an uncomfortable format for himself. That was the point at the time more so than look at this gun. Nobody other than Munro at the time had been all that good with the bat so weird decision to not play the blokes you needed to win come crunch time. The glaring issue is that the openers both these last 2 games have not even remotely given a platform for McSweeney and Renshaw who will kick on at the 25 - 30 ball mark each. They are the only 2 imo capable of winning it for the heat (with other cameos) and they aren’t given the remotest of chances due to the start. They are disgracefully behind before they even get in let alone getting there eye in and having 30 balls to manipulate fields, knock some 1’s, 2’s & 3’s and get the odd boundary and then go from there. It’s been piss poor all around on the batting front but the openers have been fucking abhorrent and embarrassingly poor for a professional level. Like **** me Mitch Swepson has scored at an incredibly greater rate than those 2 have over the last 2 games. Not good enough at the top and it has translated to not outstanding t20 players at this level having to try perform in a non-preferred and unnatural scenario in relation to there approach to this format. Sure we can bunger on about Nathan’s batting which still wasn’t good enough himself (as was everybody’s) but the blokes up top are better off getting a quick 10 each than chewing up half the balls for **** all output. I’d nearly argue we are better off just chucking Nathan and Matt out there to open and just fucking pray to god they stay in long enough that there is something for Brown, Peirson, Bryant, Walter and Neser to salvage at the end instead of praying to god Brown and Peirson just get out and being 2 batters short of value already. [/QUOTE]

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