Coming back to cricket: Why Australia will miss David Warner and Steven Smith in the next 12 months

[MenInG]

 

[Cozyrensetter]

How far ahead they are from the est shows their class

 

[aniket1911]

Goes to show how reliant Australia has been on these stalwarts given their fragile and inconsistent batting lineup particularly outside home. Australia has dug themselves a deep hole, depth of which they don't understand currently.

 

[Hasan123]

Australia will miss them. Don't see anyone who can take their place. They are going to even more reliant on their bowlers now.

 

[jadaja]

How far ahead they are from the est shows their class

No it shows how awful other batsmen in the team are and how much Australia is dependent on them.

 

[MenInG]

Well. good chance for other teams to make use of this period.

 

[kingusama92]

Yeah, it's a massive dent.

Leading run scorers vs SA (2018)

Cameron Bancroft: 223 Runs (51.74 AVG)
David Warner: 217 Runs (36.16 AVG)
Mitchell Marsh: 172 Runs (28.66 AVG)
Tim Paine: 146 Runs (48.66 AVG)
Steve Smith: 142 Runs (23.66 AVG)


That's 3 of the top 5 scorers and let's be honest Smith would be right at the top of the list if it weren't for a small patch of bad form!

They've completely destroyed their batting order.

 

[Savak]

Nah, those cheats wont be missed.

 

[WildSwing]

How far ahead they are from the est shows their class

No, it shows Australia's over dependency on just two batsmen

 

[Fire Bird]

Australians will miss Smith for sure. Warner not so much. Renshaw might become the opener they are looking for. Reliance on Warner shows how weak they are in batting. Age of Waugh brothers, Ponting, Clarke, Martyn, Gilly are long gone.

 

[hadi123]

They will definitely be missed. I can see this being a bad year for Australia, they should count themselves lucky there's no world tournament this year as they wouldn't stand a chance without Warner and Smith.

 

[soso_killer]

Yeah, it's a massive dent.

Leading run scorers vs SA (2018)

Cameron Bancroft: 223 Runs (51.74 AVG)
David Warner: 217 Runs (36.16 AVG)
Mitchell Marsh: 172 Runs (28.66 AVG)
Tim Paine: 146 Runs (48.66 AVG)
Steve Smith: 142 Runs (23.66 AVG)


That's 3 of the top 5 scorers and let's be honest Smith would be right at the top of the list if it weren't for a small patch of bad form!

They've completely destroyed their batting order.

I'm sure the quality of the bowling attack has something to do with that form. He was scoring for fun against the English a few months prior.

 

[hk031992]

I'm sure the quality of the bowling attack has something to do with that form. He was scoring for fun against the English a few months prior.

maybe. But he did well vs SA a few years ago vs an equally good attack.

 

[Abdullah719]

"It’s already been enough for these guys (Smith & Warner). They’ve suffered enough" : Waqar Younis

David Warner might be banned from holding a leadership position ever again in Australian cricket, but he’s about to make an immediate return to captaincy in Canada.

Former Pakistan great and Winnipeg Hawks coach Waqar Younis will name Warner captain for the rest of the fledgling T20 tournament and declared he will have no hesitation doing so after Dwayne Bravo flew home last night.

“I’m sure he’s going to be a good leader when it comes to captaincy,” Younis told The Daily Telegraph.

“(Warner) is a leader. He’s a team man.

“I’ve seen him in IPL and I’ve seen him as a leader. He’s up there, he’s upfront and he likes to give whatever his knowledge is, he’s always there.”

Steve Smith is barred from holding a leadership position in Australia for two years, but Warner was given life because CA underpinned their entire investigative findings on the belief that he was the mastermind of the sandpapergate scandal.

However, some leading figures like Younis and others in the Australian system believe such a restriction is counter-productive to the potential value Warner can put back into the game, particularly at domestic level.

Younis has extensive coaching experience and said he had no issues turning to Warner despite what happened in Cape Town.

“It’s already been enough for these guys. They’ve suffered enough and not only financially but mentally and it’s not easy,” said Younis.

“People make mistakes and we move on. It’s not the first time it’s happened (in world cricket) and it’s not the last time obviously.

“Let’s back these guys. They’re talent. People want to see that. World cricket want to see that.”

Smith and Warner both fizzled in their highly-anticipated match-up yesterday morning in Toronto as serious questions emerged about the safety of the local pitch.

Warner was run-out for one — his third low score of the fledging Canadian T20 tournament — but Smith fell victim to a nasty spell of fast bowling that fed off the up and down nature of a misbehaving wicket. There are still two weeks of matches to be played on the one square, and organisers will have a hard time keeping the torrid conditions for batting in check.

Warner experienced the unpredictable bounce in his first two dismissals of the tournament but the conditions were at their worst this morning when Smith copped a couple of vipers ripping up at his gloves and ultimately couldn’t keep one down and was caught in the gully for three.

Smith was one of three Toronto Nationals wickets to fall in the space of seven balls and that was the difference as Winnipeg’s target of 165 proved more than enough.

Privately, players are saying the pitch is getting dangerous.

Without Warner firing — albeit his run-out was down to brilliant fielding — Bravo was the hero for Winnipeg, smashing 41 off 31, including four booming sixes down the ground off a brutal Smith over of leg-spin.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sp...k=077158e8dd9ea4e0ea2bcd03ae950bfd-1530628329

 

[Hasan123]

1 year ban was riddicoulous. Agreed they have suffered a lot. A shame we won't see them for a year.

 

[Abdul]

1 year ban was riddicoulous. Agreed they have suffered a lot. A shame we won't see them for a year.

Why is it a shame?