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Jake Fraser-McGurk: Australian dynamite opener!

Jake is looking good to be the next Warner (probably even better than Warner).

I think Australia have found a replacement for Warner.
 
sweep_shot said:
Jake is looking good to be the next Warner (probably even better than Warner).

I think Australia have found a replacement for Warner.
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He won't be the next Warner, he'll be his own thing.

Aussie players make a brand, they don't make gimmicks and copy cats.

Jake's playing style is completly different from warner's playing style. Warner loves the offside but also incorporates innovative stroke play such as his legside scoop to pacers.

Jake however seems to have mastered Lofted stroke play. His mindset is always ro hit a 6.
 
mominsaigol said:
He won't be the next Warner, he'll be his own thing.

Aussie players make a brand, they don't make gimmicks and copy cats.

Jake's playing style is completly different from warner's playing style. Warner loves the offside but also incorporates innovative stroke play such as his legside scoop to pacers.

Jake however seems to have mastered Lofted stroke play. His mindset is always ro hit a 6.
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Exactly

Warner was still very conventional in his general stroke play, McGurk is more of an Afridi style player. He’s basically Australia’s Shahid Afridi given full licence and backing to play like he does…unlike Afridi who had a thousand people in his head telling him to do things the way they thought best
 
Rana said:
Exactly

Warner was still very conventional in his general stroke play, McGurk is more of an Afridi style player. He’s basically Australia’s Shahid Afridi given full licence and backing to play like he does…unlike Afridi who had a thousand people in his head telling him to do things the way they thought best
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Warner is still a great player though, People forget that unlike Travis head and Fraser he comes from an older era hence why he's more traditional then the likes of salt and butler.

However traditional isn't a bad thing, He finds gaps, Punishes bad balls, Respects good length, Tries to disrupt line and length with that legside scoop, Has the cut shot, the sweep, straight drives, can come forward against spinners and smack that overhead or legside six.

He's still a GOAT opener and would be chosen as an opener in virtually every era.
 
Pat Cummins to unleash Jake Fraser-McGurk as he's been included in the playing XI for the 1st ODI against Pakistan.
 
DeadlyVenom said:
He won't score over 40 against Pakistan.

Overhyped player based on IPL bashing.
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He doesn't even average more than 31 in that low quality One Day Cup in Australia and Matt Short is similar.

The fear :warner has retired now and Travis Head and Mitch are on paternity leaves as well

The best bowlers of Champions Cup/PSL will be too much for these newbie Aussie bats.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
He doesn't even average more than 31 in that low quality One Day Cup in Australia and Matt Short is similar.

The fear :warner has retired now and Travis Head and Mitch are on paternity leaves as well

The best bowlers of Champions Cup/PSL will be too much for these newbie Aussie bats.
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Pakistans bowling will be competitive.

There is questions around the batting though.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
He doesn't even average more than 31 in that low quality One Day Cup in Australia and Matt Short is similar.

The fear :warner has retired now and Travis Head and Mitch are on paternity leaves as well

The best bowlers of Champions Cup/PSL will be too much for these newbie Aussie bats.
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Maaf kar bhai. Low quality one day cup? So what's champions one day cup? A high quality IPL standard tournament hosted by yours truly?

They ain't gonna struggle
 
mominsaigol said:
Maaf kar bhai. Low quality one day cup? So what's champions one day cup? A high quality IPL standard tournament hosted by yours truly?

They ain't gonna struggle
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India is not playing so IPL is irrelevant lil bro. Point is your best Top 3 is not available - Warner, Head and Marsh and the drop off in quality after that is huge.

The domestic batsmen are nowhere near that quality.

If you had those 3, they would've destroyed all PAK bowlers.

McGurk struggles against bowlers like Liam Guthrie.

Champions Cup had international players playing and it had 1 team less so yes it's the highest standard for List A cricket.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
India is not playing so IPL is irrelevant lil bro. Point is your best Top 3 is not available - Warner, Head and Marsh and the drop off in quality after that is huge.

The domestic batsmen are nowhere near that quality.

If you had those 3, they would've destroyed all PAK bowlers.

McGurk struggles against bowlers like Liam Guthrie.

Champions Cup had international players playing and it had 1 team less so yes it's the highest standard for List A cricket.
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We'll see tmr
 
He is proving to be a flash in the pan so far. Not impressive at all. No foot movement and more like a blind slogger.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
He doesn't even average more than 31 in that low quality One Day Cup in Australia and Matt Short is similar.

The fear :warner has retired now and Travis Head and Mitch are on paternity leaves as well

The best bowlers of Champions Cup/PSL will be too much for these newbie Aussie bats.
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Didn't watch his IPL inningses, but good call on JFM so far
 
I can see him doing well on flat roads. But on proper pitches against property pace attack, he’s going to struggle.

This is a great example of what Pakistan shouldn’t do. We don’t need one dimensional players
 
You got to have 100/100 hand eye coordination when you dont have footwork.

Guys like Sehwag and Dilshan where exceptions, not all can be god gifted with this skill.

Even in T20s he is not gonna survive much vs better sides.
 
Be very careful what you wish for boys.

Trust me, you really better hope he doesn’t get going in this series.
 
Rana said:
Be very careful what you wish for boys.

Trust me, you really better hope he doesn’t get going in this series.
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They don't want him to get going that's the thing.

If you're a supporter of a side. You never want a certain player to kick off if their dangerous.

That's why Indian fans are always so fearful of Travis head.

Head has proven 2 things. Either he's getting out early or it's game over for the opposition. Their is no in-between.
 
mominsaigol said:
They don't want him to get going that's the thing.

If you're a supporter of a side. You never want a certain player to kick off if their dangerous.

That's why Indian fans are always so fearful of Travis head.

Head has proven 2 things. Either he's getting out early or it's game over for the opposition. Their is no in-between.
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They don’t want him to get going because it makes RizBar look like important T20 players :ROFLMAO:
 
Hellion said:
That's alright. He can still take consolation from the fact he outscored the combined efforts of 4 PSL hacks in Rizwan, Babar, Usman and Irfan.
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LOL... Sure. whatever can console him after his multiple failures.
 
Jake Fraser-McGurk in his debut IPL season

Runs 330
AVG 36.67
SR 234.04

His recent form has been poor - will he be picked in the IPL auction?
 
He is a great prospect but hasn't been at his best in international cricket.

Maybe he needs more time.

Australia shouldn't discard him too quickly.
 
FearlessRoar said:
Jake Fraser-McGurk in his debut IPL season

Runs 330
AVG 36.67
SR 234.04

His recent form has been poor - will he be picked in the IPL auction?
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In IPL all 4 of his fifites came at Delhi stadium. They relaid the pitch there for world cup 2023. It was a belter. Traditional Delhi pitch would be very hard to score runs. After world cup it became a belter. Remember SA scored 400 in world cup and Srilanka almost hunted that down. Batsmen enjoy Delhi pitch these days. With short boundaries and belter of a track it suited JFM. He needs to adapt himself better.
 
Jake Fraser-McGurk has been struggling in T20s since his brilliant season in the IPL 2024. The right-hander has managed just 249 runs in 19 innings at an average of 13.1 since then.

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Think he will end up as Chris Lynn 2.0 and become a T20 mercenary.

But who cares he will end his career as a multi millionaire!
 
neonoir said:
Think he will end up as Chris Lynn 2.0 and become a T20 mercenary.

But who cares he will end his career as a multi millionaire!
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Still 100% better than everyone in Pakistan’s T20 side and probably outside of it too.

I would pick a one legged, one eyed, one handed McGurk over a fully fit and health Babar and Rizwan at least. I would never consider those two curses in T20.
 
was a flop in this years bbl but played a blinder today against a good bowling lineup 95 off 46 deliveries:aag
 
The quality of bowling must be a joke when this rubbish hack is scoring runs. Then again, the way Smith is batting in this tournament says a lot about the standard of bowling in this joke competition.

BBL is one of the T20 competitions in the world and always has been. It is even worse than the Bangladesh and Sri Lankan tournaments.
 
Mamoon said:
The quality of bowling must be a joke when this rubbish hack is scoring runs. Then again, the way Smith is batting in this tournament says a lot about the standard of bowling in this joke competition.

BBL is one of the T20 competitions in the world and always has been. It is even worse than the Bangladesh and Sri Lankan tournaments.
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BBL is the only league which actually produces talent. IPL curates video game roads. Psl is a joke competition where usman khan and usama mir end up leading the charts. BPL or any other other low level league isn't worth discussing.

BBL is the only legit league.
 
Jack Frasee McBurst , a tuller getting exposed North to South, his supporters still blatantly glorify him
 
mominsaigol said:
BBL is the only league which actually produces talent. IPL curates video game roads. Psl is a joke competition where usman khan and usama mir end up leading the charts. BPL or any other other low level league isn't worth discussing.

BBL is the only legit league.
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I can guarantee you Babar or Rizwan will not score a 46 ball 95 in the BBL against any of the bowling. They might just score a 46 ball 50.

These clowns simply cannot digest the fact that those two frauds are not T20 batters. Anyone who tries to play this format in a proper way, they will do their best to bring them down.
 
Rana said:
I can guarantee you Babar or Rizwan will not score a 46 ball 95 in the BBL against any of the bowling. They might just score a 46 ball 50.

These clowns simply cannot digest the fact that those two frauds are not T20 batters. Anyone who tries to play this format in a proper way, they will do their best to bring them down.
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Because t20 is a format for hacks. You go bang bang in this format.

I don't enjoy the t20 format as for me odi and test are better. They are strategic formats however Babar and rizwan have further killed my interest for t20.

This is a format for hacks since you simply have to play reckless cricket in such a format.

Proper batters like root, Steve smith, Williamson don't have a place in such a format.

Ofcourse outliers like travis head, kohli(prime), KP, Chris Gayle, Warner do exist, but 90% of the time people like sky, finn Allen, Jake fraser etc will benefit from this format.

The problem is pakistan plays these 2 in such a format. And what's even worse is that they are more insufferable then Williamson, root and smith in such a format since those 3 know how to loft while rizwan and babar don't even bother.
 
mominsaigol said:
Proper batters like root, Steve smith, Williamson don't have a place in such a format.
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They know they don’t, but they also know that if they want to play it, it cannot be in their conventional way.

I have respect for Root and Smith who are at least trying to reinvent themselves to make themselves valuable for this format.

Root score a 28 ball 50 today as an opener, he was striking at 180-200 in the powerplay. He was trying to hit sixes and not looking for singles. He was doing his best with his limited striking ability to maximise.

Do you ever see this approach from Babar or Rizwan?
 
Rana said:
They know they don’t, but they also know that if they want to play it, it cannot be in their conventional way.

I have respect for Root and Smith who are at least trying to reinvent themselves to make themselves valuable for this format.

Root score a 28 ball 50 today as an opener, he was striking at 180-200 in the powerplay. He was trying to hit sixes and not looking for singles. He was doing his best with his limited striking ability to maximise.

Do you ever see this approach from Babar or Rizwan?
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I have huge respect for root and Smith as well. If push comes to shove they'll get out of their comfort zones. Their in o mood to accumulate and adopt @daytrader level mindsets of being a liability at the top and having your middle and lower order do the heavy lifting all so they can say, Look we got you in a 36 of 18 position.
 
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I don't know when & how I developed the taste of nuance in cricket so flat track bullies like McGurk who play cricket like it's stick cricket do not appeal to me anymore. He can score a hundred on 17 balls & I'd still not care about him or his ilk.

Make the pitch a bunsen or a mamba & make this tullas face Bumrah or Sajid in a 4th innings to see how they fare. If they score a gritty 40 facing 200 balls to save their team the test, or win, I'd be their number 1 fan. Gulli danda cricket on teeny tiny fields with dead pitches don't impress me no more.
 
Australia ODI captain Steve Smith speaking during a presser:

“Yeah, look, he’s obviously a very aggressive player.”

“He’s got all the shots around the ground, and yeah, I think it’s just picking them to play at the right time and he hasn’t quite got going here."

“But he played a couple of nice shots out there and we know the talent that he possesses so that’s why he’s in this squad."

“He’s dangerous, I think the wickets in Pakistan potentially suit him so yeah I think he’s going to learn a lot just being around the group, continuing to work with all of us as the coaches and just talking about the game and yeah, you’ll definitely take a lot out of that.”
 
Rana said:
The point is,

A cricket bhikari shouldn’t comment or mock cricketing elite talents.
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Sharjeel khan, Imad Wasim , Usman Khan , Shan Masood well not much worth in the list.

Though I still believe JFM will do better than these hacks :sehwag
 
Comparing JFM with Rizwan is like comparing a striker with a GK , insanity has no limits :ibutt
 
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