Suave's Republique Cricket

Young Buck, Adil Rashid performed rather nicely again, out in India, for The Hedgehogs..

Scoring 40 runs, and then a very tight four over spell of leg-spin, for 6 runs.

During the recent Duleep Trophy, he averaged 56 with the bat (2 not outs), and 18 with the ball!

For the whole hedgehog tour, it’s 57 with the bat, and 25.22 with the ball.

That’s proper fucking mental all-rounder material..

I’m starting to have sexytime dreams about this fella.  I feel the urge to take him to Savile Row, and get him all suaved up!

Now this brings me to a bit of a quandary…

The Sikh Of Tweak, is out there at the moment too, and has bowled excellently, averaging 23.2 with ball.

His batting average is 2.5

Rashid has a better strike rate, worse economy rate, and worse overall bowling average.

However, he averages a kazillion more with the bat, and he can field (a very good fielder).

I love Monty, but I’d be picking rashid against the Kiwis this summer, in his place.

Michael Carberry, is starting to look like a proper cricketer, after scoring a ton in his last game, and adding 67 (top-scoring) today.

Another top performer, with an average of 56.5, at the top of the order.

During the 2007 domestic season, he also averaged over 50 scoring more than a 1000 runs.

Graham Onions

Onion’s bowled nicely today for his career best figures of 7/39.  He’s got a long way to go before he’s The England class, but he’s moving in the right direction.