What went wrong with Jason Krejza??

[macintosh]

He took 12 wickets on his debut against India, then he just went on to play 1 more test which was against SA at Perth.
I was expecting him to be selected more often when the team was touring to the SC nations, but he was never selected again, his type of bowling, could have been useful in SC conditions, I think the Australian selectors should have showed a bit more faith in him and given him a longer run.
I just can't find any justification to his permanent axing from the team.

 

[IanG]

I think he got injured as well, but year he got sold down the river and will now be a career State Cricketer

 

[Anish.]

Injured, then lost form. Sat out games .........

 

[Robelinda]

Doesnt even play first class matches anymore, just one dayers. Xavier Doherty is preferred to him in the 4 day games.

 

[War]

He took 12 wickets on his debut against India, then he just went on to play 1 more test which was against SA at Perth.
I was expecting him to be selected more often when the team was touring to the SC nations, but he was never selected again, his type of bowling, could have been useful in SC conditions, I think the Australian selectors should have showed a bit more faith in him and given him a longer run.
I just can't find any justification to his permanent axing from the team.

What froze Krejza out as a test bowler, is his unusual lack of control as a off-spinner @ a time when Australia's quicks were very inconsistent.

Their isn't much of a difference between him & Lyon. Both of them were picked without dominating in first-class cricket, but instead onf raw talent. But Lyon in his test career to date, has shown he could bowl 6 balls on the spot more often than Krejza who mixed up beauties with boundary balls too often.

Krejza was almost like a off-spin version of Stuart MacGill in many ways. And, as aforementioned given at the time aus fast bowlers were not bowling as discplined as they are now - the captain (ponting) couldn't afford such a off-spinner.

 

[macintosh]

What froze Krejza out as a test bowler, is his unusual lack of control as a off-spinner @ a time when Australia's quicks were very inconsistent.

Their isn't much of a difference between him & Lyon. Both of them were picked without dominating in first-class cricket, but instead onf raw talent. But Lyon in his test career to date, has shown he could bowl 6 balls on the spot more often than Krejza who mixed up beauties with boundary balls too often.

Krejza was almost like a off-spin version of Stuart MacGill in many ways. And, as aforementioned given at the time aus fast bowlers were not bowling as discplined as they are now - the captain (ponting) couldn't afford such a off-spinner.

Fair enough, but he had much more potential than Hauritz and Lyon,
he just kept on attacking the batsmen regardless of the situation, a quality which most of the offies of recent years have lacked, and he might have improved with experience,
and I think his kind of bowling would have been much more effective on Asian pitches than the other guys that were selected.

 

[sifter132]

Yep, War's got it right - offspinning Stuart MacGill is a good example. Just bowled way too many half trackers and boundary balls. That can be tolerable if you need the penetration eg. bowling in India where wickets are hard to come by for touring spinners. But in Aussie conditions where the spinner generally holds up an end while the quicks are getting their breath back, he was pretty ineffective, and it's easy to see why Hauritz was preferred by Ponting - for that extra control. Krejza just couldn't maintain any of the pressure that was built from the other end.

 

[Left_Hander]

Yep, War's got it right - offspinning Stuart MacGill is a good example. Just bowled way too many half trackers and boundary balls. That can be tolerable if you need the penetration eg. bowling in India where wickets are hard to come by for touring spinners. But in Aussie conditions where the spinner generally holds up an end while the quicks are getting their breath back, he was pretty ineffective, and it's easy to see why Hauritz was preferred by Ponting - for that extra control. Krejza just couldn't maintain any of the pressure that was built from the other end.

And even then Hauritz got a tough call from the selectors. He should of started the 2010 Ashes series and would of been a much better pick for spinner than Steve Smith.

 

[sifter132]

^Or Xavier Doherty...yeah lets pick a left armer because KP can't play them...what about getting Cook, Strauss and Trott out first!

Yeah Hauritz got burned. I can't see what Lyon offers that Hauritz didn't, quite similar bowlers. Hauritz in fact offered more because he was a better batsman. It's just that Ponting crushed the confidence of Hauritz by trying to get him bowling differently mid Test during that short 2010 tour of India. Hasn't been the same since.

 

[War]

Fair enough, but he had much more potential than Hauritz and Lyon,
he just kept on attacking the batsmen regardless of the situation, a quality which most of the offies of recent years have lacked, and he might have improved with experience,
and I think his kind of bowling would have been much more effective on Asian pitches than the other guys that were selected.

Well i won't say Krejza has "much" more potential Lyon, as i said they are pretty even.

But both are well ahead of Hauritz who was a waste of space in Australian colours.

 

[cricketmad09]

Lets remember those 12 wickets came at over 300 runs. Nothing went wrong, he was just not ever that good to begin with. You just have to look at his stats. He's a proven non-wicket taker.

 

[angryangy]

He did get a run in the World Cup. It wasn't very good.

 

[War]

He did get a run in the World Cup. It wasn't very good.

He shouldn't have played in the world cup. Never thought his bowling would suit his bowling internationally, even though he at times bowl well in domestic OD.

 

[cricketmad09]

He only played in the world cup because our first 4 option were all injured.

 

[puddleduck]

I think the fact is this would be a shorter thread if the title was "What went right with Jason Krejza?"