Katich usurps Jaques in race for first test.

We've decided to go with Simon Katich as opener with the fact that he can bowl his gentle left-armers not going astray. Disappointing for Jaques but it's now the fifth go Katich gets at test cricket in a stuttering career.

How is it another go?

He played in the last Test as an opener

Red wrote:We've decided to go with Simon Katich as opener with the fact that he can bowl his gentle left-armers not going astray. Disappointing for Jaques but it's now the fifth go Katich gets at test cricket in a stuttering career.

Not one single report has suggested that Katich's chinamen are a factor in his selection over Jaques.

He's hardly bowled at all in the last 2 years.

given he will give lives and runs in the field, rolling his lefties over will leak even more runs...he truly is the modern day bevan

Good to have you back horrie. Did DFAT stop you stepping on the plane or are you yet to go?

yet to go ???. health has been a bit of a pain so Stanland is temporarily on hold.

Henry wrote:

Red wrote:We've decided to go with Simon Katich as opener with the fact that he can bowl his gentle left-armers not going astray. Disappointing for Jaques but it's now the fifth go Katich gets at test cricket in a stuttering career.

Not one single report has suggested that Katich's chinamen are a factor in his selection over Jaques.

He's hardly bowled at all in the last 2 years.

I would contest that Henry, read below, from today's Australian.

Mitchell Johnson (3-62) was the pick of Australia's bowlers yesterday. Spin, which was always going to be Australia's great weakness following the recent retirements of Shane Warne and Stuart MacGill, played a part in Katich's surprise inclusion yesterday.
Ponting hinted as much at the start of the tour regarding Katich's occasional left-arm wrist spinners.
"Katto's in the squad and might be able to bowl us a few handy spinners at times," Ponting told The Australian.

Phurt. Any quote from Ponting doesn't count.

Henry wrote:Phurt. Any quote from Ponting doesn't count.

Well given that he's only the captain I tend to agree. Katich's poor slip-fielding was costly at times in the Windies so you'd have undertake a cost-benefit analysis to see if anything positive derived from his bowling isn't offset by what he drops in the field.

in essence the team cannot afford both hatti and fleas in the same squad...both are inept - tuffers level - fieldsman....fleas may get the odd wicket by laughing a batsman out...but in general to describes what fleas does as "bowling" is a travesty of the use of the word.

Red wrote:

Henry wrote:Phurt. Any quote from Ponting doesn't count.

Well given that he's only the captain I tend to agree. Katich's poor slip-fielding was costly at times in the Windies so you'd have undertake a cost-benefit analysis to see if anything positive derived from his bowling isn't offset by what he drops in the field.

What?

get with the program mudge

Henry wrote:

Red wrote:

Henry wrote:Phurt. Any quote from Ponting doesn't count.

Well given that he's only the captain I tend to agree. Katich's poor slip-fielding was costly at times in the Windies so you'd have undertake a cost-benefit analysis to see if anything positive derived from his bowling isn't offset by what he drops in the field.

What?

She said she rates G Smith higher than S Katich

Red wrote:We've decided to go with Simon Katich as opener with the fact that he can bowl his gentle left-armers not going astray. Disappointing for Jaques but it's now the fifth go Katich gets at test cricket in a stuttering career.

Bad news for India.

Yep all over for India in fact i think India will now become the first team in the history of test cricket to lose a 4 match series by a score line of 5 Nil

PlanetPakistan wrote:Yep all over for India in fact i think India will now become the first team in the history of test cricket to lose a 4 match series by a score line of 5 Nil

Umm... doesn't that happen only to Pakistan?

Chandan wrote:

PlanetPakistan wrote:Yep all over for India in fact i think India will now become the first team in the history of test cricket to lose a 4 match series by a score line of 5 Nil

Umm... doesn't that happen only to Pakistan?

No Pakistanis do better than that, we manage to turn 4s in to 6s.

ARticle on Mitchell Marsh:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/sport/cricket/another-son-of-swampy-tipped-for-great-things/2008/10/03/1222651336350.html

horace wrote:given he will give lives and runs in the field, rolling his lefties over will leak even more runs...he truly is the modern day bevan

Huzzah, horrie returns the day that Fleas is rightly selected in the Australian team....and horrie doesn't miss the opportunity to have a gripe.

Go Fleas!!

I'd like your views on The Walking Hamstring injury at 6, h.

Hey Skulls.
Mummy letting you out to play today?

Arvo (for me - morning for you) taips. Just jumped on her PC under the guise of checking my work emails. Not around for long. She has dial-up and it's horrendously slow.

skully wrote: She has dial-up and it's horrendously slow.

I Have the day off.

For some reason I find that funny

I have the day off as well (several actually). I am on a few days leave and am building my mother the picket fence that she has always wanted. My dearly departed old man saw such a fence as an abomination of nature and something that obstructed his mowing!!!

Is the fence going down the middle of the lawn????

skully wrote:I have the day off as well (several actually). I am on a few days leave and am building my mother the picket fence that she has always wanted. My dearly departed old man saw such a fence as an abomination of nature and something that obstructed his mowing!!!

Give it a year or two, she will put advertising hoardings on them...