Originally Posted by jcafcw:
“Surely the point of a team game is that when one of the team is going through a bad run then the other players carry the performance over. All players go through bad runs. I think that a lot of the calls for dropping players are media driven.
We talk about dropping the likes of Compton or Vince but who is there to replace them?
To put this into context my football team, AFC Wimbledon, after losing to 2-1 to Stevenage and going eight games without a win and sitting lower mid table had some of our fans calling for our manager's head. We kept him on, had a good second half of a season and got promoted.”
Continuity is fine, and it's much better than the way we used to chop and change, but there has to come a time when you say enough-is-enough. Compton doesn't average over 30 in 16 Tests now, that's a good run of Tests, and a poor run of results.
Scott Borthwick has scored tons of runs for Durham at 3, also gives us a bit of a leg-spin option (yet TBH that shouldn't really be much of a factor, he's just done better with the bat then everyone else at 3). In the end where does it stop being "fair" to carry on with Compo, and unfair to not give people like Robson and Borthwick who are churning out the runs in the Championship.
Sam Robson was only giving 7 matches, but his record is better than Straigtouttas, he clearly wasn't shown the loyalty. Should be said though, 7 isn't a bad run either. Ballance's record is infinitely better, but he seems to have forgotten how to cricket.