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and how Australia put an end to his career just as he was getting going.

These were his last few innings in Test cricket:

26, 20, 0, 57, 37, 27, 0.

I don't know if it was Commie, and I can't remember the thread, but it had something to do with cricketers and indiscipline.

Just wanted to clarify matters. I don't think Symonds had the stuff in between the ears to be a consistent Test performer.

In reply to Devin

Symonds played a lot of important innings for Australia while he was there...You have to look at his runs in context of the partnerships that he was engaged in.

Ya'll need to stop looking at cricket through one eye.

In reply to Larr Pullo

In reply to Larr Pullo

He was a brainless idiot who's lucky that Bucknor did him a few favours when he was the umpire.

In reply to Devin

Symonds was a good limited overs player. But it's obvious he wasn't good enough to be in that Aussie Test team.


Or to put it another way, he was the Aussie Tino Best but with a bit more talent for cricket.

In reply to SnoopDog

In reply to Devin

Kholi had figures like those on the last England tour.

you up in the NW Territories?

connection slow?

In reply to camos

Those figures won't sum up his career though. More memorable than his failures in England are the repeated beatings he inflicted upon the Aussies in their own backyard.

In reply to Devin

but you are using a similar period to define another player!

A similar period? That was the end of his career. Those were his last test scores against New Zealand and South Africa. He had two centuries in 41 innings, both of which came in Australia.

There is no proof to suggest that he was on some sort of upward swing and that his best was yet to come.

Six of his 10 half centuries came in Australia, three came in the West Indies. He was nothing but a flat track home bully. His average away from home was less than 35.

In reply to anandgb

In reply to googley

Exactly!

In reply to Devin

Now would you post Shiv's scores for his last few innings????