Australia's Tour of South Africa.

[Cicjose]

1-3 is top order
4-6 is middle order
7-9 is lower order
10-11 tail

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[The_Captain]

1-4 top order
5-7 middle order
8-11 tail. Because there bowlers.

[Mailman the 2nd]

With the way Warner and Watson play number 4 is basically top order anyway.

Batting against the SA attack will be tough, so it's not a hard guess to say Doolan will be thrown in early to the innings at least once or twice...

[Bill Manspeaker]

1-3 is top order
4-6 is middle order
7-9 is lower order
10-11 tail

this is right

[The_Captain]

1-3 is top order
4-6 is middle order
7-9 is lower order
10-11 tail

this is right

Can tell you from the many years of cricket that this is not right. Why would the middle order as you call it not be in the middle???

The median of 11 is 6. 6 is therefore the middle one either side of this is 5-7. Therefore 5-7 is the middle order. From here you have a top and a bottom( or tail).

That is like saying 1-2 is top, 3-4 is higher order and blah blah. Just stupid. Ever heard the commentators say the tail is wagging when number 8 and 9 batstmen are in before?? plenty of times. ..

Tards!.

[ossie85]

pfft, all semantics. Think we can move on...

[Bill Manspeaker]

many years of cricket? can't be too many if you don't know what is classed as top and middle order

and don't call me a tard