Not convinced that an all pace attack is the way to go, the pacemen didn't exactly take many 2nd innings wickets in Brisbane did they?
On a juicy green and grassy WACA with bounce yes, but there are hardly any of those pitches anywhere else in the world, if any.
So what, Hauritz is no Shane Warne, but he is a decent spinner with a good international record.
And I'd hardly chalk this one up for the all pace attack anyway, seeing as only 2 of them took wickets.
Am pretty sure Watson can match Ben Hilfenhaus' useless strike rate of a wicket every 700 balls.
As i mentioned efore of course AUS will not bowl on Perth like pitches every day - fact. Thus in the future the 4th seamer will obviously have more work to do.
Thus with the constact failing on spinners picked over the last two years to bowl well on flat pitches & wearing 4th/5th day pitches. The 4-man attack should be given a chance in MCG to see if they can win AUS a test match in those conditions, before any talk of a spinner is mentioned again for this Ashes & in the future.
Its stunning that you could categorise Hauritz international test record as that of "decent spinner". But that horse has been beaten to death already so i'm not going to debate that highly incorrect assertion again.
Finally on Hilfenhaus. Do you possible subscribe that just maybeeee Hilfenhaus just like his bowling performance in India recently, bowl farr better than his figures suggest in Perth. Or his figures reflect accurately & he bowled poorly?.
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You can't play 4 quicks in Melbourne. The pitch isn't like it was at the WACA. So if they play 4 quicks, they're even more stupid than I thought. Siddle should be dropped (hasn't done anything since his six in the first test), Hauritz should be in, or at least a spinner that's not Beer (either Smith should drop down and play Ferguson at 6 or play O'Keefe or even Holland).
Smith is already in as a potential spinner.
Plus what makes you so confident that if the pitch wears/turns @ MCG & SCG like it did at adelaide that any one of Hauritz, O'Keefe, Beer, Holland will be good enough to exploit the conditions?.
I dont & its beyond me that people are still talking about Hauritz.