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Old 23-04-2004, 12:51 AM in reply to Whips_off_the_bails's post starting "As if I would...! ;) Very interesting..."
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Originally Posted by Whips_off_the_bails
I do feel those statistics don't tell the whole story, though - Tres's average is bumped up by the 219 at the Oval (scored, interestingly, when there was serious discussion of dropping him for the first time), a century against Bangladesh, and a couple of not outs in low second-innings chases and in the rained-affected Edbaston match.
Is it really justified to pick and chose the innings that are valid in his stats? And you are conveniently ignoring the fact that he is getting scores of 50+ just exactly as often now as he has done all through his career.