I do like Jaques, but I don't feel it would be terribly mature to take him to the first Test over Katich, who is likely to be a vital asset. Jaques hasn't had any match practice in India and hasn't played a game since June. To be honest, if they were serious, they could have put him in the A squad. So yeah, Jaques has done nothing wrong, but he needed an opportunity to do something in India.
The thing with Johnson that is most annoying is all that natural ability. He bowls fast, has a decent eye with the bat and is pretty good in the field; you can tell he was born to play some sort of sport. When he bowls, he doesn't only get the tailenders out, there is still this ridiculous natural ability to take even the odd top order wicket with some regularity. The thing is that such wickets are in spite of the apparent lack of skill employed, perfect. If the ball swings or turns, the batsman can think around it. The ball that the batsmen sees nothing dangerous about, that is the one he lets his guard down to. We've seen time and time again, batsmen play terrible shots to Johnson and get out.