Nah, so typical of the Aust. public, has a blip in form, "oh noez drop him". Forgetting about the fact that over the last few years he's guided Australia to limited overs victories with both patient and blistering innings. Last night was the perfect reminder of just how good the bloke is.
It's been rubbish all season (though I think it was pretty good for the New Zealand test, so maybe it started just after that). That's actually the best I've seen it in a little while. QLD played SA in a domestic OD game and it was basically a sandpit.
He hasn't played in England or the IPL. That's why his experience is so low. Each side only plays 5 T20 games a season in Aus IIRC, so 11 is about average for most Australian domestic specialists, especially as he'd have spent some time in the Australian squads around the time of the last few Big Bashes.
Wow.
I really hope not.
Clarke is probably the best candidate really. Jaques/Rogers/Hughes what are they like in the slips? Other players probably arent right, Ponting is set in at 2nd, Katich can't catch anywhere else how will he take one there? Symonds' if he's back looked rubbish when he went in there once or twice, plus he's too good in the field.
Red hair, glasses, freckle face = clearly not marketable/selectable.
He's neutral.
Andrew MacDonald anyone?
I think you are being a bit too harsh on him, he was brilliant in the first T20 game, he has been gun in most OD games he has played for the Redbacks this season, and just one bad T20 game doesn't make him garbage, but what you said about him bowling either short or full is true though, and that has always been a problem with Tait, just like a young Brett Lee, he too doesn't tend to bowl much in the good length area, which is an area of his game he needs to work on.
Clarke is the only option tbh, the rest shouldn't even be considered, Hussey is good at gully so he should stay there, but there is no doubt the standard of Aussie slip cordon has gone down alarmingly, with the retirements of Hayden, Warne and Langer.
Those KFC ads could sell anything. Maybe I'm just easily impressed, but this summer has brought out the best ones yet.
Hayden will be missed in slips, and Warne was pretty good, though he dropped quite a few sitters along the way but I always though Langer was good without being anywhere near outstanding in the field.
Yeah making these bowlers all bowl in an ODI will really show who the best Test spinner is.
Agree with White, not sure if I would go with Clarke, but no obvious replacement. It would be good if a few of the bowlers liked fielding in the slips..
Don't take the bait. Every single thing he posts is in jest.
So dire if you are someone like Nathan Bracken who isn't in the Test frame really.. The selectors say "Bracks sorry, we have decided to go with the DingDong approach and play the 5 spinners all in the same team".
