Recent content by Doodlesweaver

Smith is already in the one day team. Hughes was going over early to work with Murali so it would make sense to put him in the squad.

To some extent, Faulkner is a specialist bowler though. Sure he's a bowling all-rounder and has loads of room to improve with his batting but he has to maintain his spot as a bowler in the team first and foremost. I don't think they see Mitch Marsh that way because he's had a good List A record...

It looks kind of dangerous for him that they have been so keen to give Marsh opportunities to bat in the top 6. Really, this would have been the ideal series to give Faulkner that chance. I'm disappointed that he hasn't been given opportunities and thought it was far too early for Marsh but he...

Take back what I said about Mitch not doing well against SA. That was some innings today. Very powerful lad.

Of course I read what you wrote. You seemed to think that it was about Marsh v Hughes for batting. They are trying Marsh out, that much is obvious, what benefits they get from that they are trying to FIND OUT as he's hardly played any international cricket. Same reason they have Richardson in...

They used Marsh in the warm-up game v Qld at 3. So why would you assume that Hughes was the logical player to be picked for 3? It's hardly a straight shoot-out for a spot between Hughes and Marsh, as Marsh was picked in the initial squad and he bowls. They'll be giving him overs whenever he...

It was no surprise that Whiteman was chosen for the A side. Gilchrist has been working with him and he was getting big wraps for his keeping all last season.

Yes, I really can't complain about Watson. He's a sitting duck and makes it extremely easy for the Ump to trigger him by doing the same thing over and over and over... And Haddin is barking mad, I suspect. He's the most inconsistent of players. Can play beautifully and correctly but...

He'd only played 2 matches against Sri Lanka in Australia. That's why his average was 16. Their batting line-up was not strong at all. He's playing in a country he's never played in before and with a team that is not confident at all in the biggest series of his international career. He's...

That's because the Aussies can't get even a useful score unless Clarke does something fine, which he did in this match. But no-one else can in the line-up as it stands. Agar still has the second highest score in the series for the Aussies which says it all really. England seemed pretty intent...

Couldn't agree more. I wondering why everyone is so keen on having Watson opening. He's been in awful form about about 2 and a half years. It's not exactly like this is his first shite series in a while. He should be batting at 7. I don't care how he looks when he's sizzling along to get...

They should open with Watson and Hughes, Clarke at 3 and Voges in at 6. Warner is pretty ordinary for the number of chances and the amount of security he has in the team.

Marsh and Mathews are fulfilling the same role along with Nayar and none of them are performing. Three allrounders x 0 = 0. The batsmen seem to lose their marbles very easily which is daft as they have a fair bit of experience between them. Uthappa, Smith, Matthews, these guys even if young...

Not much experience in the Aus line-up. I can't count IPL experience as relevant as the test wickets will be proper turners. Warner and Smith will struggle, Warner probably more than Smith if they bring the spin bowlers on early. Doherty is a very depressing choice. But then the Aussie squad...

I've watched him bowl on the CA streams and he can get it nipping about. Prefers a fullish length which means that if it's a dead track, he can go around the park, but he's got an excellent wrist position and technically his action looks good. He's still very young, only turned 21 a month ago, I...