Australia v India, 3rd Test, Melbourne, 26-30 December, 2014

by skully Sat 20 Dec 2014, 06:42

So it'll most likely be Rhino for Koo and someone (Cooper, Burns, Carters??) for Puddle at the G, but I'd also like to see the back of Twatson for someone like Burns, Carters, or Moo and a young keeper for Haddit.

by lardbucket Sat 20 Dec 2014, 06:51

Rogers
Warner
Shaun Marsh
Smith
Cowan
Watson
Haddin
Johnson
Harris
Starc
Hazlewood
Lyon

no room for Siddle

by Henry Sat 20 Dec 2014, 06:52

For India, they should drop Rohit (maybe for good?) and Aaron. Ishant bowled appallingly when India really needed him to step up when Johnson came to the crease with the game in the balance in the first innings. But due to a lack of alternatives, I guess he plays at Melbourne. Depending on the extent of Dhawan's injury, he might not play either.

They may explore the idea of playing five bowlers if Bhuvneshwar Kumar is fit again.

Vijay
Dhawan/Rahul
Pujara
Kohli
Rahane
Dhoni+
Ashwin
Bhuvneshwar
Kulkarni
Yadav
Ishant

At least the tail doesn't look so long. Kulkarni can also hold the bat.

by lardbucket Sat 20 Dec 2014, 07:02

I'm beginning to like Australia's pace bowling 'reserves', probably down to the 2nd-3rd level of reserves anyway ...

Johnson Hazlewood Starc Harris Siddle
Cummins Hilfenhaus Pattinson Bird Sayers Abbott
Hopes Bollinger Faulkner Paris Cutting Behrendorff
Rimmington Hopes Coulter-Nile Rainbird Sandhu
Tremain Hastings George Putland Mennie
Fekete Feldman Hogan
Dawes

by Henry Sat 20 Dec 2014, 07:06

lardbucket wrote:I'm beginning to like Australia's pace bowling 'reserves', probably down to the 2nd-3rd level of reserves anyway ...

Johnson Hazlewood Starc Harris Siddle
Cummins Hilfenhaus Pattinson Bird Sayers Abbott
Hopes Bollinger Faulkner Paris Cutting Behrendorff
Rimmington Hopes Coulter-Nile Rainbird Sandhu
Tremain Hastings George Putland Mennie
Fekete Feldman Hogan
Dawes

Australian Cricket would be in serious crisis if James Hopes made his test debut at 36.

Joe Dawes.....some plucky youngster ready to burst onto the scene?

by skully Sat 20 Dec 2014, 07:16

lardbucket wrote:I'm beginning to like Australia's pace bowling 'reserves', probably down to the 2nd-3rd level of reserves anyway ...

Johnson Hazlewood Starc Harris Siddle
Cummins Hilfenhaus Pattinson Bird Sayers Abbott
Hopes Bollinger Faulkner Paris Cutting Behrendorff
Rimmington Hopes Coulter-Nile Rainbird Sandhu
Tremain Hastings George Putland Mennie
Fekete Feldman Hogan
Dawes

Aye, bowling talent is not the issue. Time to give some young blood batsmen a go. But the idiot NSP won't. Twatson FFS. Rolling Eyes

by lardbucket Sat 20 Dec 2014, 07:24

Henry wrote:
lardbucket wrote:I'm beginning to like Australia's pace bowling 'reserves', probably down to the 2nd-3rd level of reserves anyway ...

Johnson Hazlewood Starc Harris Siddle
Cummins Hilfenhaus Pattinson Bird Sayers Abbott
Hopes Bollinger Faulkner Paris Cutting Behrendorff
Rimmington Hopes Coulter-Nile Rainbird Sandhu
Tremain Hastings George Putland Mennie
Fekete Feldman Hogan
Dawes

Australian Cricket would be in serious crisis if James Hopes made his test debut at 36.

Joe Dawes.....some plucky youngster ready to burst onto the scene?

Yes, that would be a crisis. The point is more that Hopes would not be a total disgrace in 'Allan Igglesden, David Capel, Phil Newport' style in the exceedingly unlikely event the 18 or so ahead of him were all indisposed and he had to be chosen.

Joe Dawes, what a beauty that was, hey.

by Nath Sat 20 Dec 2014, 07:43

skully wrote:Time to give some young blood batsmen a go. But the idiot NSP won't. Twatson FFS.

if only Hanscombe wasn't injured

by JGK Sat 20 Dec 2014, 08:38

Personally I'd love to see Hopes get a run if it is on merit.

And he's as good an candidate as any to replace Puddle as the allrounder.

But fark me - Haddin surely has to go - we can't lose the series now so try the next guy.

by embee Sat 20 Dec 2014, 10:31

I'd pick the following team

GCS
GDWV
Cowan / Burns / Ferguson
Captain Sub Fielder
Bog
Any of the keeper batsmen who isnt Haddin
Faulkner
Midge
Rhino
Lyno

by Henry Sat 20 Dec 2014, 10:34

Sean Abbott a smokie to be picked in the Aus squad? It would be quite a story....

by lardbucket Sat 20 Dec 2014, 10:38

a distant smoky at the moment, but he is developing nicely

by Henry Sat 20 Dec 2014, 10:39

His bowling is developing faster than his batting.

by embee Sat 20 Dec 2014, 10:42

Caerbannog is an ordinary bowler

Selecting him in a Test team would just add to the tragedy of that ball

by Ethics? The Gall! Sat 20 Dec 2014, 21:38

lardbucket wrote:Rogers
Warner
Shaun Marsh
Smith
Cowan
Watson
Haddin
Johnson
Harris
Starc
Hazlewood
Lyon

no room for Siddle

starc 12th man assuming ryan harris is fit? i like that team except for haddin. there must be better options

by lardbucket Sat 20 Dec 2014, 22:45

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:
lardbucket wrote:Rogers
Warner
Shaun Marsh
Smith
Cowan
Watson
Haddin
Johnson
Harris
Starc
Hazlewood
Lyon

no room for Siddle

starc 12th man assuming ryan harris is fit? i like that team except for haddin. there must be better options

Starc would be 12th. I don't think they will drop Haddin or Watson for this game, given that there are two other enforced changes ... but they must be on death row. I think they really want Rogers for the Ashes in England, so I think they will try to keep him in unless there are abject failures in the next match. Two good albeit contrasting fifties in this last game has helped the selectors stick with that decision.

Regarding replacing Haddin ... I'm not sure this will happen in a hurry, because (again) I think they would prefer to send him to England next year, given his experience and results there, and then have him retire. Carters would be a good reserve keeper in that Ashes squad, and for a place on that tour I suspect he has now probably moved ahead of Whiteman, Nevill, Ludeman, Wade, Handscomb, Hartley, Dunk, and Paine; who are probably now ranked in roughly that order. If they choose to replace Haddin for the last two games of this series, then I suspect they will as a short-term measure choose the more experienced man, Wade, although I would prefer them not to do this.

It is Haddin's failures with the bat, rather than with the gloves, that is the issue currently, and I am not sure that any of the others listed will now be a better gloveman, however good Hartley and Paine might have been in that department earlier in their careers. Wade certainly won't.

by WideWally Sun 21 Dec 2014, 03:23

Joe Burns is in the squad for the Boxing Day test.
snoopy-dance

........ but somehow Haddin retains his place.

Australia's squad for the third Test: David Warner, Chris Rogers, Shane Watson, Steve Smith (capt), Shaun Marsh, Joe Burns, Brad Haddin, Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood, Ryan Harris, Peter Siddle.

by Bradman Sun 21 Dec 2014, 04:02

Hope that's not the batting order.

by Fred Nerk Sun 21 Dec 2014, 04:14

embee wrote:Caerbannog is an ordinary bowler

Selecting him in a Test team would just add to the tragedy of that ball

I was the mug that WIKIed that, so nobody else has to bother.

by embee Sun 21 Dec 2014, 04:22

Fred Nerk wrote:
embee wrote:Caerbannog is an ordinary bowler

Selecting him in a Test team would just add to the tragedy of that ball

I was the mug that WIKIed that, so nobody else has to bother.

Alex Forrest is probably easier to remember but she was the other way around

by Nath Sun 21 Dec 2014, 04:38

WideWally wrote:Joe Burns is in the squad for the Boxing Day test.

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by skully Sun 21 Dec 2014, 05:08

2nded Nath. Some vision at last from the NSP.

by JGK Sun 21 Dec 2014, 05:28

Has Burns batted at 6 recently?

We seem to have reverted to picking 5 top 3 batsmen in our top 6.

by Bradman Sun 21 Dec 2014, 05:35

That was my query. He's a number three, bat him there. Don't hide him. If we're going to use Watson it would be better at six in case he has to bowl well.

by skully Sun 21 Dec 2014, 06:04

Agree, Q. Burns at 3 and Twat at 6.

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