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Should Australia fast-track Fraser-McGurk for T20 World Cup? Sometimes questions answer themselves…

10 months ago

Let’s talk about Jake Fraser-McGurk.

The futures prospect that has materialized before our eyes at the IPL.

Is the young Australian fast tracking the next evolution of short form batting.

Was this the next incarnation of Dave Warner’s unforgettable arrival in international cricket that night at the MCG.

Saturday night it happened in prime time as Fraser-McGuirk opened the batting for the Delhi Capitals.

It was fearful and fearless hitting.

It began with a firm clip of the toes through mid on.

Followed by a short arm punch down the ground.

Then the flourished of the wrists through the lofted on drive.

And the slapping through cover.

The stand and deliver stokes over mid wicket were sublime.

The smearing of the ball through off and the flicking off his pads.

Fraser-McGuirk set up with his weight cocked forward and his bat loaded for the swing.

And he smashed everything that came his way.

11 fours and 5 sixes.

It takes about 20 minutes to watch on Kayo… don’t go for the mini watch the full 27 ball innings and tell me you didn’t just see the revolution.

After five overs Fraser-McGuirk had Delhi 0/89 and he’d made 78 of them from 24 balls.

There’s some analytics on Fraser-McGuirk from his five innings in the IPL this far.

He has faced 104 balls and tried to hit 77 of them to the boundary.

That’s homerun hitting.

He’s found the boundary 44 times and got out five times trying.

It has netted in 247 runs.

The aggression percentage across the IPL on batter friendly tracks is 39%.

Fraser-McGurk is attacking 74% of his deliveries… no one else is nudging 60%.

“Fraser-McGurk is the ideal T20 batter. Bat at the top of the order, have the willingness to capitalise on the field without getting your eye in, and have the necessary skill to adjust to changes in length and pace and score at three runs per ball that he has attacked in his first IPL.”

Watch it for yourself and tell me you didn’t just see the revolution.

Sometimes questions answer themselves.

Should Australia fast track JFM into the World Cup.

It’s a rhetorical question isn’t it?

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