Aus tour of West Indies 2012

Aus squads for short-form games announced:

ODI squad: Michael Clarke (capt), Shane Watson (vice-capt), George Bailey, Dan Christian, Xavier Doherty, Peter Forrest, Brad Haddin, Ben Hilfenhaus, David Hussey, Michael Hussey, Brett Lee, Nathan Lyon, Clint McKay, James Pattinson, Matthew Wade, David Warner.

T20 squad: George Bailey (capt), Shane Watson (vice-capt), Dan Christian, Xavier Doherty, Peter Forrest, David Hussey, Michael Hussey, Brett Lee, Nathan Lyon, Clint McKay, James Pattinson, Matthew Wade, David Warner.

No Hoggy in the t20 squad.

Haddin and Wade both named in the 50-over squad

No Ryan Harris in either squad.

All seems a bit weird.

Oh, and Shaun Marsh deservedly left right out.

And Nathan Lyon, who hasn't played any short-form cricket for Australia at home gets picked in both squads.

Is part of the Inverarity selection panel's brief to make cricket fans go 'WTF?'

...and Bung in both squads

Cummins has had a re-occurrence of his foot injury & has been ruled out of all Cricket till at least June.

not good news

Big Dog wrote:Cummins has had a re-occurrence of his foot injury & has been ruled out of all Cricket till at least June.

The younger generation of fast bowlers really need to learn to put the spikes on the outside of their bowling shoes.

Clutch wrote:

Big Dog wrote:Cummins has had a re-occurrence of his foot injury & has been ruled out of all Cricket till at least June.

The younger generation of fast bowlers really need to learn to put the spikes on the outside of their bowling shoes.

Sage

Big Dog wrote:Cummins has had a re-occurrence of his foot injury & has been ruled out of all Cricket till at least June.

Ah fark.

No Starc either!

They look fair squads, although I wouldn't have Haddit or Qunt M'Kay in either squad.

Haddin is going because of his leadershio and because its a 40 hour rush trip if your keeper gets injured in the Windies ...means Nifty gets a couple more games for the dubbers

Qunt has performed unbadly enough to not warrant dropping yet

and Hoggy remains in the frame for the World T20 Mardi Gras; they're just not wasting a ticket to train in Barbados on him

Selectors have made it clear that Harris has been dropped because of form.

bizarre if that is the case...I do not get why Bung and McKay are there if form is a criteria

To keep the series alive for as long as possible. Dead rubbers hurt the wallet.

And when is Mitchell Johnson coming back?

Starc should be there ....maybe even Coulter-Nile, Bird or Herrick

tricycle wrote:And when is Mitchell Johnson coming back?

when he proves himself capable of bowling consistently tight spells...pretty much never

So I take it that we get all the rubbish cricket out of the way first, given these squads have been announced before the Test squad?

horace wrote:

tricycle wrote:And when is Mitchell Johnson coming back?

when he proves himself capable of bowling consistently tight spells...pretty much never

No pretty much about it, h. Although I was surprised to see he polled well in the JAMODI and T20 sections of the AB Medal.

horace wrote:Starc should be there ....maybe even Coulter-Nile, Bird or Herrick

I reckon Koo will be in the Test squad. Couta has prolly done enough but with such a strong pace group at the moment, he will prolly miss out. The other two still need another season or two to establish themselves.

is Haddin flying Air Australia?

He'll be lucky to get a game. That will happen only if Wade steps on a Caribbean Spiney Poison Fish, or Haddit plants one in his bed.