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Six batsmen?
Half a dozen batsmen?
Is this a school carnival squad?
What are they thinking?
Have they not heard of form, injury and people failing on their first trip to the UK?
If Andrew Hilditch thinks that Shane Watson can bat “anywhere in the order” he should be put down.
And what if someone gets injured just after someone is dropped for form, will Watson and McDonald at 5 & 6 strike fear into the English team, or just the Australians who are watching them bat.
This ashes series takes about seventeen months surely one more batsman, and I’m talking a batsman, not an all rounder, would be the way to go.
And Nathan Hauritz?
He is not going to play a test unless Australia are two nil down and Lee can’t hit the pitch and Hilfy gets stage fright.
Don’t take a token spinner you don’t plan on playing, surely Bollinger, Geeves or Bracken would be more likely to win Australia a test match, even on a rank turner.
The worst thing about all this is, I knew it was likely to happen.
This is almost the squad I though they’d pick.
I assumed Symonds would go as the spare batsmen, and Watson as the all rounder.
They decided that Shane Watson was the spare batsman, and that Andrew McDonald would be the all rounder.
Good for them.
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remember they steamrolled Saf with 3 rookie bowlers. they wont even need 6 batsmen. their no.8 makes a mockery of engerland’s no.6, and chris rogers is playing county cricket.
I was pissed off at the selection for the saffa series too. Just because you win doesn’t mean you were right.
Jrod
I agree that there should be another batsman ( and Hussey is past it so somebody else should be picked Hodge maybe?) but there probably isn’t much point.
Given there will be no games between tests a spare batsmen won’t get any practice so if somebody loses form you won’t be able to select a batsmen who has had anything but net practice.
The thinking is probably that if they need one they’ll just pick one out county cricket.
The Gnome is still churning them out for Somerset.
Hauritz!! Fuck me, you’ve got to be kidding. he can’t bowl a decent club side out on a raging turner.
Crazy would have been a better pick. Mcgain has been shafted..
McDonald is like a nasty computer virus – no matter how many times you viral clean and reboot, you just can’t prise him out of your test side.
The last time Australia were in England someone stood on a cricket ball on the morning of a test match
Hahahahaha.
That’s gold.
Well, at least we might have a contest on our hands this time.
Why ain’t Crazy there? Does no one respect 12 wickets in a match on debut?
Hauritz is a good limited overs bowler. Thats it.
Dhananjay, Krejza is a club bowler, and the selectors know it. He averaged 50 this summer, and 47 last summer. He was lucky to encounter batsmen who treated him with too much disdain on his Test debut and was able to average 30 for that game.
Barry, for Englishmen even a village level spinner will do.
Unlike Hauritz, Kreja gives the ball a lot of air. Englishmen tend to go crazy when the ball gets over their eyeline.
The village level thing was an exaggaration now that i think about it. The new age Pom has started to play spinners well. However I still feel that a spinner who has natural flight will give them lot more trouble.
new age pom…hahaha!
Jrod, I said at the time I liked the squad for South Afreeka. Results backed me up.
I had forgotten Haurriblitz was even in that squad, hopefully he will go as unnoticed in England. At least they have a Wicketkeeper in this squad, or is Manou the extra Batsman?
Still………….bring it on I say !
manou is probably good enough to play as an extra batsman, although Max Klinger was ther man I would have selected.
Is it possible to get a pettion in parliament that gets the selections overturned and replaces Hauritz with McGain?
on the plus side it means Katich is the number one spinner in the squad.