backfootpunch wrote:Making_Splinters wrote:rich1uk wrote:Making_Splinters wrote:Well I hope this might let Bell open against the Windies in the ODI series, probably be either Hales or Kieswetter though.
please not bell back in the ODI team
Why not he's easily one of the best limited overs top order batsmen in the country.
im not sure a top 3 of cook,bell and trott is whats required in modern odi cricket
Yeah, never mind the fact that Cook and Trott are two of England's three highest averaging batsmen ever in ODIs (KP being the third), and have strike rates of 81 and 78 respectively, which are perfectly adequate in ODIs. Never mind the fact that England's ODI team is probably the most successful it's been since 1992.
After all, we all know that If you don't have a strike rate of over 90, you'll never succeed in ODI cricket.
After all, the following, all of whom have a strike rate of less than 81, were all terrible ODI batsmen and would never make it anywhere their respective countries' all-time ODI sides:
Michael Bevan
Michael Clarke
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting
Sourav Ganguly
Inzamam ul Haq
Rahul Dravid
Brian Lara
Kumar Sangakarra
(and many, many, many more highly rated ODI batsmen)
But hey, why let the facts get in the way of a dig at England, eh?