Comments on: The Case for Clark http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/ just another bullshit cricket blog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 23:12:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jrod http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/comment-page-1/#comment-17362 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 22:53:12 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/#comment-17362 Steve, He had just a touch of grey coming in, then suddenly he was reddish, and now he has worked out the just for men range.

]]> By: jrod http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/comment-page-1/#comment-17361 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:14:35 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/#comment-17361 Damith, these days it is a light brown with grey in it.

]]> By: Jamie64 http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/comment-page-1/#comment-17360 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:42:09 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/#comment-17360 Clarke has to play.

His batting is more entertaining than, well… pretty much anything..

]]> By: Chris W http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/comment-page-1/#comment-17359 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 08:51:47 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/#comment-17359 Maybe I’ll be proven wrong, but my money is on Clark having a mare at the Oval if he is picked. He’s not the reincarnation of Glenn McGrath, no matter how much CA wish it.

Mitch is a different matter, I think he’s got his arse in gear now, Clark or no Clark. He’s the match-winner.

]]> By: damiths http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/comment-page-1/#comment-17358 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 05:21:12 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/#comment-17358 whats his natural color then jrod ?

]]> By: poopsie http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/comment-page-1/#comment-17357 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:04:04 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/#comment-17357 The bit about Collingwood is spot on. You get the feeling that Hooribitz just makes the very ordinary England middle order feel a lot more comfortable at the crease

]]> By: Lou http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/comment-page-1/#comment-17356 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 12:22:29 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/#comment-17356 Anything that makes MJ less anxious is a winner. If Clark is there, he can pretend
1) he’s not top dog bowler in the team,
2) that no-one expects him to win/lose the Ashes

and that will make him bowl better.

With Hauritz chosen over Clark, MJ knows 1 and 2 are true regardless of how Ritzy bowls. And he quakes inside and out. No Oz fan wants that as it’s not big and it’s certainly not pretty.

]]> By: jrod http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/comment-page-1/#comment-17355 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:43:27 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/#comment-17355 Ned, that was his one wicket in that test.

]]> By: batting in ned kelly's helmet http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/comment-page-1/#comment-17354 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:04:16 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/#comment-17354 In the third test Freddy Flintoff was about halfway through giving us the grandest arse-fucking since 1981 when Hauritz nabbed him from nothin’ with a ball you couldn’t have planned for. History is made of moments like these. I reckon I’d pick Hauritz.

]]> By: Gigi http://cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/comment-page-1/#comment-17353 Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:16:04 +0000 http://www.cricketwithballs.com/2009/08/14/the-case-for-clark/#comment-17353 Good on you for trumpeting him, the most important one on that list is he made the other three more comfortable. He not only anchored that first session in Leeds with discipline but inspired most notably Mitch to tighten up his game. So Clark had a loose final day, but they were in total control from the end of that first session, in which his approach had the biggest effect. England were culpable of shit batting, yes, but even if he hadn’t have taken any wickets that morning, he had already made the bowlers as a unit so much sharper.

Even if people think Hauritz has bowled well, there’s no way you could match the effect Clark has had on the other three. Hauritz is not a threatening bowler, or a very skilled one. He has been effective this series but that has been as much due to England’s insipid batting at times than his pressure and intelligence when bowling.

It will go back to being much more of an even contest with Hauritz in, how Clark can be dropped after the first day of the last match I can’t understand, but if you want a tight match, then yes, get him in. I would rather see the teams playing quality cricket for the win rather than the nervous cricket that I think will happen if Hauritz is brought into the team again.

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