By Decentric - 10 Aug 2016 12:03 PM
One website which has a lot of excellent articles explaining detailed answers to questions I've asked on here is Cricinfo.
I know Draups also uses it too and speaks highly of it.
There are some very good articles on spin bowling in Australia compared to the Subcontinent. Nathan Lyon is also very candid discussing his own lack of efficacy on the Subcontinent.
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By grazorblade - 19 Aug 2016 8:06 AM
ok so your saying that inflated shield averages are not a prediction of easy batting pitches. I don't know how that can be sustained (harder pitches means shield averages eventually go up? Really doubt that) but if it can, surely a prediction would be that foreign teams would dominate here too. They don't. In Australia you need incredible technique to handle the bounce, picking the pitch early, having a large contrast in your footwork etc. Another prediction would be that the gaps between career averages and averages in tough conditions have a big gap. I gave more examples before but the gap is normal, its just that apart from smith and warner this is a mediocre team to begin with.
by the way steven smith has an average of 60 in SA, 42 in asia and 43 in England
warners is 37 in England 90 in SA and 33 in asia. The gaps between these performances and their averages are about normal (mark waugh averaged 9 in sri lanka and 32 in asia I wrote a list in another thread). Mitch Marsh and Peter Neville average in the low 20s internationally and thats our lower middle order.
I'm not against any player improving their technique any more than I'm against them improving their concentration, mental strength, hand eye coordination, balance, innings management, power or any part of their game (I'd be crazy too) but I dispute that thats the primary problem
Also in principle you could play different pitches here and make them more like foreign pitches, perhaps even a variety of pitches and this would close the gap between the home and away form at the cost that we lose some of our home advantage. But it would still be a mediocre to moderately strong team.
As far as i can see low shield averages seems to indicate that we have players who aren't particularly strong by the time they get to shield level. This points to youth development
aussies inmost sports lately have struggled with pressure
this points to mental strength
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