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He's a very good county batsman who's been consistent for a number of years and I don't doubt will continue to be so. However he has technical limitations which have repeatedly been exposed by high quality international bowling and I don't believe he's ever tightened up his game to rectify this.
Some players are just short of true international class, over the years we've seen the likes of Ramprakash, Key and Vince for example score boatloads at county level but unable to transfer this to consistently perform at test level, Ballance falls into the same category.
He’s only had 2 real chances like. And the 2nd he was out of form when called up
You can’t ignore someone scoring this much
Fair enough. I've always been against him being reselected and Roy being given a go at the top of the order in red ball cricket but i've changed my mind. There's no guarantee of their success but they still have as good a chance as anyone else.
I’d like both
I’m big on Root at 4 like but you can’t plsy Ballance at 3 so maybe that’s an option. I’ve always been convinced he’d score runs at 5
They are my 2 picks for sure
And Vince but he won’t be playing much cricket
I get the reservations about balance but people forget he was totally out of form 2nd pick and 3rd pick he got injured straight away
He’s faced quick bowling in CC too. Root is a big fan so will be interesting to see
All about opinions but I think people dismiss ballance
The problem is people dismiss Ballance because he sometimes looks out of his depth at test level, however so do a lot of others.
The question for me is, is he one of the top 6 batsman in the country in red ball cricket, and the answer is yes imo.
Doubt it mate as he was brought over by Houghton who got him a scholarship at Eton at 15Didn't he fatten up his stats by playing FC cricket in Zimbabwe early in his career?
Doubt it mate as he was brought over by Houghton who got him a scholarship at Eton at 15
Played for Derbyshires 1sts at 16 then Yorkshire nicked him
His Wiki suggests he was playing for a FC side called Mid West Rhinos in 2011
Dont think.i can bare to see him stood one inch off his stumps.and gettimg bowled or.lbw again