The umpires were on his case too yesterday as well, Dhoni said that they told him during the innings he needed to hurry up. The innings was 31 minutes overtime which is MASSIVE. There was some farting around with drinks being run out to batsmen and the 3rd umpire stuff, but the vast majority of that 30 mins is on Dhoni and having 4 fast bowlers. Part of it also seemed to be the left-right hand combo in the middle overs and the fielders seemed to take longer than usual to get into the mirror positions for the right and then lefties.
The other interesting point he made was about Jadeja, and that Australia had too many left handers to give him a go. Surely he might have known that before the game? And is Jadeja really so incompetent against left handers? It's one of my pet hates at present that captains always want the ball spinning away from the bat and are willing to bowl lesser bowlers just to see that happen.
As for the talk of Clarke coming back for Ponting - yes surely that's true. But the other interesting conundrum is Shane Watson, who I think is the best opener we have and probably the best ODI player we have. He HAS to come back. Does Christian make way and Wade just move to #7? Not sure they want Watson bowling 10 overs per game at this stage. So if he's just a batsmen does he and Clarke come in for Forrest and Ponting with Watto at #3? Maybe he comes in for Warner straight swap at the top
Ponting might have gotten away with it if it was just Clarke, but Clarke and Watson to return with Dave Hussey playing so well, and it doesn't look good for the old fella.
Clearly not as bad as my selective memory suggested, but then his major scores opening were way back in 04/05 and a 98 in Feb 09, other than that, not much to write home about.
