Australia v Sri Lanka, 3rd ODI, Brisbane, 18 January, 2013

Shirley Clarke and Warner will be back. Time for the NSP to stop farking around. C'mon Bernie, get serious, you dried up old farker.

Jeez, Perth doesn't get a JAMODI or a JAMITT v Lankans. Maybe they will when the Windies are out.

do we have any fit bowlers? MJ injured too.

skully wrote:Jeez, Perth doesn't get a JAMODI or a JAMITT v Lankans. Maybe they will when the Windies are out.

perth should get zip...almost as bad as the Toxics and Jellies at faililng to turn up to the cricket...they do love the Tower of BBL tho

horace wrote:

Tower of BBL

*chuckle**

WTF. Henriques gets a call up!

Henriques gets Aust ODI team call up

Australia’s selectors have recalled four players including NSW allrounder Moises Henriques to their squad for the third and fourth one-day internationals against Sri Lanka.

Skipper Michael Clarke, opener David Warner and wicketkeeper Matthew Wade also return to the squad after being rested from the opening two matches.
Game three is on Friday in Brisbane.

Australia chairman of selectors John Inverarity says 25-year-old Henriques, who has played two previous ODI matches, provides an extra seam-bowling option to the side.

Top-order batsmen Usman Khawaja and Aaron Finch and middle-order batsman Steve Smith have been dropped along with seam bowler Ben Cutting and wicketkeeper Brad Haddin, who was a back-up for Wade and has now suffered a hamstring injury.

“Moises is a young man who has shown promise for some years,” Inverarity said on Monday.

The five-match series has been levelled at one-all after Sri Lanka’s win in Adelaide on Sunday night.

Pace bowler Kane Richardson, who was a late inclusion in Sunday’s team, has also been dropped from the squad.

Inverarity said he hoped Mitchell Johnson (side) and fellow left-armer Mitchell Starc (calf), who both didn’t play in Adelaide, would be fit for Friday’s third game.

“The medical staff said that it is very likely they’ll be fit. We’ll make a full assessment on Wednesday and, if there’s any doubt, we’ll bring other players into the squad,” he said.

Amid ongoing criticism from ex-players including Brett Lee of the selectors’ rotation policy, Inverarity strongly defended his selection panel.

“The three different formats and the amount of cricket and the amount of travel is very different from the past,” Inverarity said.

“The other key factor that’s not often mentioned is the lack of proper conditioning periods. It’s very difficult to find an extended timeslot when they can undergo appropriate conditioning.”

The exclusion of Finch means he’s available to captain Melbourne Renegades in Tuesday’s BBL semi-final against Brisbane Heat at Etihad Stadium.

Australia squad: Michael Clarke (capt), George Bailey, Xavier Doherty, Moises Henriques, Phil Hughes, David Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Glenn Maxwell, Clint McKay, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade, David Warner.

Oh FFS. Bernie has officially descended into the farcical realms that Hildick reached. Dear God, we are so screwed.

And WTF has Uzzy done to upset Bernie?

reeks scored runs and took wickets earlier in the year when Invers was watching him

Mitch Marsh is injured ...Silent Les is probably too old ...Ronny is a Ranga ...Koo Denial and Christian have BBL commitments ...Fork'n'er is too Tasmanian

Uzzy was in as cover for Pup ...pup is back ...Uzzy is out ...pretty farquen simple

Yoody looks a bit of an imposter in the mould of SF. Can't bat, can't bowl but fields OK. Get a batsman in for him.

this reeks...at least it is just another meaningless tournament

The fact that he's been left out of the squad completely now makes Khawaja's omission at Adelaide even more puzzling. No explanation was provided. Did he piss in Mickey Arthur's cornflakes FFS?

What kind of a chance is one ODI? Same with Finch, really. Two ODIs and dropped. I reckon unless a player looks absolutely and completely out of his depth, he should get three games minimum to prove himself once you've decided as a Selector that he's good enough to be picked in the first place.

Pretty harsh on Khawaja I reckon, he never really got a chance.

Look on the bright side. By my reckoning at least 40 players have been picked in various Aussie squads over the past 12 months. Shows what tremendous strength you have in depth.

taipan wrote:Look on the bright side. By my reckoning at least 40 players have been picked in various Aussie squads over the past 12 months. Shows what tremendous strength you have in depth.

Last night's result indicates otherwise.

taipan wrote:Look on the bright side. By my reckoning at least 40 players have been picked in various Aussie squads over the past 12 months. Shows what tremendous strength you have in depth.

Qunt.

when they selected stevie nix they had reached the bottom of the barrell....then they busted the bottom of the barrell and dug up reeks

Aside from Big Dog does anyone rate Xavier Doherty as a spinner? Even Smith and Maxwell bowled better...wonder if he will make the final cut in Brisbane

JGK wrote:

taipan wrote:Look on the bright side. By my reckoning at least 40 players have been picked in various Aussie squads over the past 12 months. Shows what tremendous strength you have in depth.

Qunt.

I'll take that as a compliment

What a farking joke. Can Invererity cheapen the Aust cap any further?

Big Dog wrote:What a farking joke. Can Invererity cheapen the Aust cap any further?

Chinese manufacturers give good prices on bulk orders.

taipan wrote:

Big Dog wrote:What a farking joke. Can Invererity cheapen the Aust cap any further?

Chinese manufacturers give good prices on bulk orders.

The same for allrounders presumably.

didn't realise Mark Waugh was a selector now...

Does anyone recall this team?

Lehmann
Hayden
Martyn
Langer
Ponting
Moody
Emery
Robertson
Hughes
Reiffel
Rowell

Is that the Oz A team that beat the Poms and Zimbos and would have beaten the ozzies in the finals if the selectors hadnt nobbled it ?

embee wrote:Is that the Oz A team that beat the Poms and Zimbos and would have beaten the ozzies in the finals if the selectors hadnt nobbled it ?

Aye.

Would be the best team in the world at the moment.