Themer
Chairman of Selectors
Australia look like they're going to fall apart now South Africa are in a very commanding position now, they really need Ponting to come good and play a captains knock or they'll be facing going possibly 2-0 down.
South Africa in Australia Dec 2008-Jan 2009
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I personally fell that Hayden will be dropped in 3rd test,and may loose this test,they have 8 wickets left and they still trail,Hussey,Symmonds are not in form,its difficult for them to post a big score and then take 10 wickets...
Cricketdude
Chairman of Selectors
Hussey not out!
Themer
Chairman of Selectors
Hussey aswell South Africa on fire, all hopes of an Aussie victory have been virtually extinguished. If Australia ever needed Ponting to score well now is the time.
Dare
Chairman of Selectors
damn did Hussey get robed or what. To all the people that against the review system this is what its being used for.
Australia in trouble but they do have Ponting and Clarke in the middle.
Australia in trouble but they do have Ponting and Clarke in the middle.
smssia0112
Chairman of Selectors
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If we were playing the 11 best players in Australia we'd be winning right now. It's an absolute disgrace this side that the selectors have picked. You've got one guy in terrible form who's not even that good and under an injury cloud and another three in poor form. What do guys have to do to get dropped from this team?
Next test, we must drop Hayden and Symonds. Lee is out injured obviously, bring in Hilfenhaus for him, Marcus North (part time spin would be good on the SCG, and he's in great form with the bat which is what we need) for Symonds and Rogers for Hayden.
But then you get pathetic umpiring decisions like the one just given to Hussey. Why give him out like that? It obviously came off the helmet, no obvious hint of glove, why not give him the benefit of the doubt? It seemed obvious to everyone else.
bowser
School Cricketer
The thing that i believe must be questioned about the Oz performance is the captaincy of Pointing and his influence on selections. After the last test he berated the bowlers and then turns around and says he backs them when only one bowler is changed. He appaears to lack imagination in tough situations and also seems to forget about players that he can use. I
question Symonds place in this team. He appears to be the modern day Sheehan who was only picked because he could field in the covers. Symonds has no batting form and until the death yesterday appeared to be unable to bowl, is he in the team because he is a good influence in the dressing rooms and Pointing likes him? He could do that as twelfth or thirteenth man.
Lee appears to have problems with Pointing and this has affected his form and his committment.
Pointings setting of fields to Steyn in particular was atrocious. He allowed him to hit straight against the slow bowlers all day, which he did with increasing relish. I felt that he would have been better served placing his deep mid off straighter to prevent this shot. Certainly he may have hit the ropes at the normal mid wicket position or wider but at least he would have been forced to take a risk and hit across the line of the straight spinners instead of straight through the line.
Hayden appears to need to be allowed to score runs elsewhere, as much as I am a supporter of his.
As well as Hauritz bowled I think that Ponting would have loved to have had Krezja yesterday.
You look at Duminy's batting chart and he was allowed a huge number of singles where he turned the ball to the leg side for a single and we continued with stacked offside fields.
Why was Kilfenhausen bought into the team? He is an injury risk, hasn't got a run and has only reasonable recent form.
question Symonds place in this team. He appears to be the modern day Sheehan who was only picked because he could field in the covers. Symonds has no batting form and until the death yesterday appeared to be unable to bowl, is he in the team because he is a good influence in the dressing rooms and Pointing likes him? He could do that as twelfth or thirteenth man.
Lee appears to have problems with Pointing and this has affected his form and his committment.
Pointings setting of fields to Steyn in particular was atrocious. He allowed him to hit straight against the slow bowlers all day, which he did with increasing relish. I felt that he would have been better served placing his deep mid off straighter to prevent this shot. Certainly he may have hit the ropes at the normal mid wicket position or wider but at least he would have been forced to take a risk and hit across the line of the straight spinners instead of straight through the line.
Hayden appears to need to be allowed to score runs elsewhere, as much as I am a supporter of his.
As well as Hauritz bowled I think that Ponting would have loved to have had Krezja yesterday.
You look at Duminy's batting chart and he was allowed a huge number of singles where he turned the ball to the leg side for a single and we continued with stacked offside fields.
Why was Kilfenhausen bought into the team? He is an injury risk, hasn't got a run and has only reasonable recent form.
bowser
School Cricketer
Lee is a good fast bowler. I wonder as some of the ABC commentators if he has the ability to be a good medium fast bowler as someone like Lillee was, and I think not. He doesn't appear to display that ability and as he looses pace will become more and more of a passenger. He also appears to lack committment recently.
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