Phil Hughes - When do we drop him?

[Twizzle]

word on the street is he is not in the team

 

[El Diablo]

Mark my words, Hughes gets 100 and he will open the batting in the 1st test.

:-k

 

[BunniesMan]

Well he didn't get a 100 did he.

His time will come. He is like a piece of fruit being ripened just right.

 

[El Diablo]

you're the fruit

 

[TheParraboy]

Well he didn't get a 100 did he.

His time will come. He is like a piece of fruit being ripened just right.

He has already had 3 "times" or has it been 4? lol

 

[BunniesMan]

Just 3 times. And 2 of those times he did not deserve to be dropped. So he's only genuinely failed once.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Word on the street is that Fruity Phil mixes a mean Gatorade.

#12thman4life

 

[madunit]

Well he didn't get a 100 did he.

His time will come. He is like a piece of fruit being ripened just right.

Ripe fruit is the last stage before rotten fruit.

 

[El Diablo]

a lot of streets with a lot of different words

 

[JW]

His time will come.

How many times has his time come and how many times will his time to come?

:crazy:

 

[madunit]

Just 3 times. And 2 of those times he did not deserve to be dropped. So he's only genuinely failed once.

so he's a failure.

Why give a known failure another opportunity at something he has already failed at?

 

[Red Bear]

I liked BM claiming Rogers hasnt been in form the last 12 months. He's scored the same amount of test centuries as Hughes has in his career in the past eight test matches and been excellent in any other first class cricket in that time.

There is a reasonable argument for Hughes eventually coming back into the side. But deathriding batsmen who have performed very well is f**king lame.

 

[typicalfan]

Especially when it has been over 6 months since the last test.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

The issue with Phruity Phil is that like Ponting and Clarke before him he was recognised as a real talent early and brought into the side at a young age to cultivate that talent. Like Phruity Punting and Clarke were dropped. Unlike Phruity they made the absolute most of their chance once they came back, adapting and improving their games and being mentally tough.

Phruity has gone backwards in his game. He cannot play spin to save himself. I hope he gets another chance and makes the most of it but I believe that he's mentally fragile.

 

[BunniesMan]

http://instagram.com/p/urzLwlFZ5v/

Phil Hughes has the support of the captain. And his missus.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

:lol: Just like on the cricket field Fruity is a third wheel.

 

[TheParraboy]

He is going to the UAE before the rest of the team to have specialist 1 on 1 coaching with Murali. The selectors are putting serious resources into developing him as the man that replaces Rogers.

:lol:

 

[BunniesMan]

Of all my stupid posts to mock you mock one that isn't wrong?

 

[TheParraboy]

Of all my stupid posts to mock you mock one that isn't wrong?

I get the feeling Lehmann had a quiet word to Murali just before the first test regarding HAH.

I think Murali was brutally honest , ouch :lol:

Why else didn't he play? waste of resources and one on one time if you ask me

 

[BunniesMan]

What an idiot. He never went along as a first XI player. In an interview a while ago they said they see him strictly as an opener. He needs to get his eye in against quicks to be more effective against spinners. That's where he has had his unparalleled 1st class success.

When Rogers gets dropped or retires Hughes will be the replacement. That is what he is being groomed for. I could see that being as soon as this summer.