Phil Hughes - When do we drop him?

[jargan83]

Phil Hughes is back. Automatic next in line to be picked.

No and No

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Phillip again proves that he's a flat track bully who can score runs when the conditions are good but is too mentally fragile and technically unsound to take the next step up.

Congrats Phil, you're the Dirk Welham of the twenty first century.

 

[hineyrulz]

The odds of SA winning were virtually zero after WA batted for almost 5 sessions. It was all about not losing and getting 1st innings points.

He has now got his first career 200. Phil Hughes is back. Automatic next in line to be picked.

:lol: keep shifting those goal posts Atard. Bagged Trott for the same thing and called him selfish.

 

[umina panther]

Good signs from Hughes. Two or three years of this and he can have another shot at the test team

 

[lockyno1]

Pity he can only score runs when the ball doesn't move or spin, modern day flat track bully! Another innings on the road that is the Adelaide Oval!

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Yet people still keen to see 31 year old George Bailey slot in to the test side with a career FCA of 38.28 - 14 100s and 30 50s from 172 innings. Oh but wait, he's a 'good bloke'.

 

[snoozer]

tsunami alert!!

the rod will be polished till it outshines the sun.

 

[BunniesMan]

Hughes is a flat track bully? Again, tell me about all the other batsman who got 200 in this match?

And lol @ mocking Hughes for being a flat track bully when Bailey is a no track bully at 1st class level.

:lol: keep shifting those goal posts Atard. Bagged Trott for the same thing and called him selfish.

Trott was batting with England 300 runs ahead in a very winnable Test. For SA the best realistic scenario was 1st innings points and not losing. For Hughes to rush would have done nothing for his team.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Yet people still keen to see 31 year old George Bailey slot in to the test side with a career FCA of 38.28 - 14 100s and 30 50s from 172 innings. Oh but wait, he's a 'good bloke'.

Happy to give him a shot. HAH has had 3 and failed them all.

As for being a flat track bully, HAH is the best credentialed batsmen playing in that shield match on a road. Prime conditions to show the world what he can do on a pitch doing nothing, zero swing and no decent spinner in the opposition line up.

 

[BunniesMan]

Happy to give him a shot. HAH has had 3 and failed them all.

As for being a flat track bully, HAH is the best credentialed batsmen playing in that shield match on a road. Prime conditions to show the world what he can do on a pitch doing nothing, zero swing and no decent spinner in the opposition line up.

3 failures? More like 1 at most. The first time he broke records a couple of tests before he got dropped. The third time he scored runs in tough conditions in 3 out of 4 tests before getting dropped.

He did not fail 3 times. It isn't his fault he has been messed around with by stupid selectors.

 

[jargan83]

What's does HAH average with the bat since being recalled against Sri Lanka?

Hughes is about as tough as a kitten hence why the selectors opted to shield him from South Adirca last summer

 

[BunniesMan]

He wasn't shielded from anyone. He wasn't ready to play Test cricket at that point, against anyone. He scared more runs, Quiney failed, he got picked for Sri Lanka. No conspiracy.

He has more toughness in his pinky than Warner, Johnson and Watson have combined.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

f**k up gimp.

 

[TheParraboy]

He wasn't shielded from anyone. He wasn't ready to play Test cricket at that point, against anyone. He scared more runs, Quiney failed, he got picked for Sri Lanka. No conspiracy.

He has more toughness in his pinky than Warner, Johnson and Watson have combined.

soft

National selector John Inverarity revealed Hughes had essentially been protected from facing the Proteas' formidable attack, with a recall against the less imposing Sri Lankans considered a more appropriate setting to re-establish himself.

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket...m-proteas-says-inverarity-20121206-2ayia.html

 

[BunniesMan]

That's media putting words in the mouths of selectors. And even if it was true he should not be blamed for another example of selector geniusation. Why would any sane person shield him against the attack where his best ever cricket was played.

And again, he isn't soft. He is a tougher man and tougher player than Watson, Warner and Johnson combined.

 

[Dutchy]

:lol:

 

[El Diablo]

That's media putting words in the mouths of selectors. And even if it was true he should not be blamed for another example of selector geniusation. Why would any sane person shield him against the attack where his best ever cricket was played.

And again, he isn't soft. He is a tougher man and tougher player than Watson, Warner and Johnson combined.

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket...m-proteas-says-inverarity-20121206-2ayia.html

''We did feel that throwing [Hughes] into a Test against the world No.1 with their attack was probably not the ideal set of circumstances for him"

 

[BunniesMan]

Alright then, it's an example of extreme selection stupidity. It does not say anything about Hughes.

When Katich was needlessly dropped that said a lot about selectors and nothing about the player himself.

 

[some11]

''We did feel that throwing [Hughes] into a Test against the world No.1 with their attack was probably not the ideal set of circumstances for him"

Pfft, just words on a screen.

 

[BunniesMan]

Yes I was mistaken. Silly me for not believing a story of extreme selector incompetence.