WI v Australia, 2nd Test, North Sound, 30th May-3rd June

Yup. MacGill HAS to be dropped.

So you'll be selecting the poor mans Tim May for 2009?

PearlJ wrote:Yup. MacGill HAS to be dropped.

I think a quiet word and a timely retirement would be the way to go.

JKLever wrote:So you'll be selecting the poor mans Tim May for 2009?

Emburey doesn't qualify for Australia.

tac wrote:

PearlJ wrote:Yup. MacGill HAS to be dropped.

I think a quiet word and a timely retirement would be the way to go.

If this is his last test he needs 5 wickets to equal Merv on the Australian wickettakers list.

JGK wrote:

JKLever wrote:So you'll be selecting the poor mans Tim May for 2009?

Emburey doesn't qualify for Australia.

Phurt!

Useful bat who averages 40 per wicket in Fc cricket? He's the new Ashley Giles

Who are you talking about JKL?

tac wrote:

PearlJ wrote:Yup. MacGill HAS to be dropped.

I think a quiet word and a timely retirement would be the way to go.

Have to check with Mick Sawyer first. Ideally, as MacGill's last living fan, he's the man to tap him on the shoulder.

JGK wrote:Who are you talking about JKL?

Casson!

lardbucket wrote:

tac wrote:

PearlJ wrote:Yup. MacGill HAS to be dropped.

I think a quiet word and a timely retirement would be the way to go.

Have to check with Mick Sawyer first. Ideally, as MacGill's last living fan, he's the man to tap him on the shoulder.

I am a fan as well, lardy, that's why I think it's time he hung them up . . .

JKLever wrote:

JGK wrote:Who are you talking about JKL?

Casson!

Right.

How does a left arm wrist spinner become the next right arms finger spinner?

JGK wrote:

JKLever wrote:

JGK wrote:Who are you talking about JKL?

Casson!

Right.

How does a left arm wrist spinner become the next right arms finger spinner?

He doesn't - he becomes the next useful lower order bat who isn't particularly any good?

Having said that, it is obvious that Casson isn't Test class but unfotunately he may be the best of a seriously carp bunch.

JKLever wrote:

JGK wrote:

JKLever wrote:

JGK wrote:Who are you talking about JKL?

Casson!

Right.

How does a left arm wrist spinner become the next right arms finger spinner?

He doesn't - he becomes the next useful lower order bat who isn't particularly any good?

How do you know he's not very good?

He should never have been chosen for this series. Whether it's due to injury or straight-out loss of fitness, he bowled nothing but utter tripe v Sri Lanka, and then came back after his injury with more of the same, ie nothing to suggest he was ever going to be back to even his 2000-2002 form.

And he was outbowled by Casson in the Sheild final.....

If you have Pup, Roy and Fleas in the team, do you need a specialist spinner against the poms who, as we all know, are utter dross against the turning ball . . .

PearlJ wrote:

How do you know he's not very good?

I don't - it's 2.30am and i'm having a poke.

In truth averaging 40 in FC cricket hardly makes him a stand out does it?

lardbucket wrote:He should never have been chosen for this series. Whether it's due to injury or straight-out loss of fitness, he bowled nothing but utter tripe v Sri Lanka, and then came back after his injury with more of the same, ie nothing to suggest he was ever going to be back to even his 2000-2002 form.

Yep, but you can understand how the selctors gave him a crack . . . Windies being notoriously shite against spin . . .

tac wrote:If you have Pup, Roy and Fleas in the team, do you need a specialist spinner against the poms who, as we all know, are utter dross against the turning ball . . .

We're only dross against the mystery spinner in fairness. I'd love the Aussies to test that theory out!!

tac wrote:If you have Pup, Roy and Fleas in the team, do you need a specialist spinner against the poms who, as we all know, are utter dross against the turning ball . . .

Sage. Casson is going to be marginally better than those guys at best. We'd be better off with 4 frontline quicks and share the spinning duties. There's no point picking a spinner for the sake of it. With Midge and Subi we have two bowlers more than capable of being the workhorses while the real strike weapons in Bung and Bubbles have a rest

JKLever wrote:

PearlJ wrote:

How do you know he's not very good?

I don't - it's 2.30am and i'm having a poke.

In truth averaging 40 in FC cricket hardly makes him a stand out does it?

Meh, had a good season and deserved a go. Plenty of room to improve.

JKLever wrote:

PearlJ wrote:

How do you know he's not very good?

I don't - it's 2.30am and i'm having a poke.

In truth averaging 40 in FC cricket hardly makes him a stand out does it?

At this stage of his career, it's acceptable. Now if he has a FC and Test career which ENDS with that average, you'd be entitled to call him the poor man's Giles or Carl Hooper of spin.

Johnson = Midge right?

The same one who can't get the ball off the straight in this series?

JKLever wrote:

tac wrote:If you have Pup, Roy and Fleas in the team, do you need a specialist spinner against the poms who, as we all know, are utter dross against the turning ball . . .

We're only dross against the mystery spinner in fairness. I'd love the Aussies to test that theory out!!

Love the false bravado . . .