What would you do with Australian cricket?

[aussie1st]

Simon Katich (c), Usman Khawaja, Chris Lynn, Mike Hussey, Michael Clarke (vc), Shane Watson, Brad Haddin, Nathan Hauritz, Peter Siddle, Mark Cameron, Mitchell Starc

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That is the Foxsports team the next match. Some serious jumping of the gun with Lynn and Starc. Cameron and Siddle are pretty similar bowlers and that lineup again is missing a line and length bowler.

 

[War]

I'm only disagreeing slightly. Smith is unlikely to ever be good enough to bat at 6 or 7 (just talking about Tests). But if he got ahead of Hauritz as a bowler he could make the team at number 8 as a specialist spinner who bats a bit (a la Swann).

Ye but his bowling needs to develop enormously for that to ever happen. Something again i doubt. ATS as ive said since i first saw him in international, Smith is Cameron White part 2.

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Simon Katich (c), Usman Khawaja, Chris Lynn, Mike Hussey, Michael Clarke (vc), Shane Watson, Brad Haddin, Nathan Hauritz, Peter Siddle, Mark Cameron, Mitchell Starc

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That is the Foxsports team the next match. Some serious jumping of the gun with Lynn and Starc. Cameron and Siddle are pretty similar bowlers and that lineup again is missing a line and length bowler.

Funny team.

I am holding my cards close to my chest & dont want to pick a potential test XI & Squad for the Sri Lanka tour until the world cup. But i'll gave it a shot

Watson
Katich
Khawaja
Ponting
Clarke
M Hussey
Haddin
Johnson/Siddle
Krejza
Harris
Bollinger

D Hussey
Paine
O'Keefe
Johnson/Siddle
Copeland/Pattinson/Starc

 

[Insider]

Australian team have done everything, theyve achieved everything, maybe now they feel theyve done everything and they are demotivated :s.....who knows but the world cup is coming lets see what happens....

 

[STLIndian]

I wouldn't change anything. They're just going through a downturn in talent.

What, you guys thought you'd have players like Gilly, Hayden, Ponting (in form), McGrath, and Warne on the same team forever?

 

[angryangy]

To be fair, Australia had Gilchrist and Hayden for about half as long as India have had Tendulkar and Dravid.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

they need to get some groundsmen that is will stop the down turn in their wickets. Wickets in australia are getting pitifully tame.

they're going the way of those in the windies, and while the windies have other problems, I do think their wickets are in part responsible for their problems now.

Sydney doesn't even break up so much these days. How can they be expected to turn out batsmen with decent technique when they will have rarely faced swing or spin. How can a bowler be expected to perfect his art if he rarely encounters the conditions to make the most of it. It's like trying to train an orchestra to play Bach by making them learn yankee doodle dandy on instruments from a budget catalogue.

I know people call sri lanka and india flat but they still offer something. if you look at both their attacks, pretty much everyone can swing it and the spinners can all turn the ball because they have experience bowling in swinging and spinning positions.

 

[aussie1st]

The pitches in Australia have been bowler friendly for most part of the season. It's just when the Test came along that the pitches became what you saw. You will notice quite a few low scoring matches in the Shield competition which illustrates the problem at hand, none of our batsmen have the temperament to handle the bowler friendly conditions.

 

[War]

Ye if the pitches in test where really as bowler friendly as they where in some of the early domestic season games. England could have really won 4 or 5 nil.

 

[Therbs]

I wouldn't change anything. They're just going through a downturn in talent.

What, you guys thought you'd have players like Gilly, Hayden, Ponting (in form), McGrath, and Warne on the same team forever?

Clarke needs to go. Put him back down to shield level, his form has been crap over the past couple of years. He goes well in womens' mags and that's about all he's good for at present. Watson back down to 6, Katich to open with the best of the other openers, Punter down to 5, Uzzie Uzzie Uzzie in at 3. Smith is not a Test no. 6 batsman, so he needs to go as well. Pick 3 quicks, possibly Hauritz as spinner.

 

[sifter132]

Clarke's recent form is poor, but before the India tour in October he's been great for Australia in Tests. There are at least 2 other batsmen who should be dropped before Clarke: Ponting and Hughes/Smith. He's giving away T20 which I think EVERYONE agrees is a good move. And he averages almost 50 in ODIs in the last 2 years, even if he does strike in the 70s. I think Australia would be worse off without him.

 

[aussie1st]

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Would love him as coach but would take him assisting and we badly need more direction. His record speaks for itself and WA look a lot better this season.

 

[sifter132]

Well the main problem is that there isn't anyone that good to promote. Ferguson's got the talent, but really he is very 'Clarke of 5 years ago'-like in his achievements thus far, and apart from Khawaja there hasn't been many good FC batsmen this summer. In fact of all the first class players with 400+ runs and 50+ averages this summer, there are as many Englishmen with those numbers as from the 6 States combined... 5 Englishman (Cook, Bell, Strauss, Prior, Trott) vs 5 Aussies (Marsh, Cosgrove, Khawaja, M.Hussey, Lynn).

 

[aussie1st]

Given how much time Hussey and North were given it would be unfair dropping Clarke on the back of a few poor series. At the start of last year he was pretty much our best batsmen alongside Katich. I'd say he deserves at least one more series.

 

[War]

Yes 2 bad series cant override the fact that Clarke was in superb batting form since the 2006/07 Ashes. He certainly deserves another series before we seriously start talk about dropping him from the test set-up.

 

[aussie1st]

After seeing Marsh the other night I feel it's time to take a punt on him. So heading into the next Test series

Marsh
Watson
Khawaja
Clarke
Hussey
Ferguson
Haddin
O'Keefe
Siddle/Johnson
Copeland
Bollinger

Hard to see Punter going on but if he does as a batsmen only then he can take Ferguson spot. Katich likewise but for the future it's probably best he calls it a day. Copeland spot will depend on how he finishes the Shield.