Choose Australia's attack for the Ashes

[Nate]

Stemming on from the Brett Lee thread, please select the best bowling line-up to take on the Poms in England.

 

[Jakester1288]

If all are fit and have some proper cricket matches under their belt (not IPL or any of that ****) I would run with.

Lee
Johnson
Siddle
Clark
Watson

Clarke
Katich

If we need to remove a paceman for a spinner, remove Lee for McGain.

 

[inbox24]

Should be pretty straightforward:

Watson (if fit)/North
Lee
Johnson
Siddle
Clark

12th: McGain
13th: Hilfenhaus

The only thing wrong is that we haven't really gauged McGain yet to see what he can do. Be kinda risky to play him in England if we 'just want a spinner in the team'.

 

[pasag]

Where's Bollinger?

 

[Johnners]

Watson
Johnson
Lee
Clark
Siddle

 

[Nate]

Where's Bollinger?

Please edit him in, aswell as Dirk Nannes if you would be so kind.

 

[luffy]

Clark, Johnson, Siddle and McGain.

 

[Noble One]

Until both Lee and Clark prove there fitness and show age hasn't caught up with them:

Johnson
Siddle
Hilfenenhaus (If conditions suit him, he may have a massive Ashes series)
Bollinger / McGain

Given our current resources, this is the bowling lineup I will be happy to see play the 1st test. Lee and Clark still have a role to play, but they must show there fitness has returned before they can return to the lineup.

 

[Redbacks]

Went for

North

Johnson
Siddle
Clark
Hilfenhaus

 

[Jamee999]

Johnson
Clark
Siddle
Watson
McGain

 

[BoyBrumby]

Think if Lee and Clark are fit and show some form both should play. Clark especially has the kind of style made for our conditions.

I can see the temptation to omit the specialist spinner, particularly when there are three semi-decent part-timers in the upper order but always like a proper twirler myself so have gone for McGain, despite never having seen him play.

So:

(McDonald) - if 5 man attack deemed necessary
Lee
Johnson
Clark
McGain

 

[superkingdave]

Went for a Hauritz-Casson-Cullen-White spin quartet maybe add Chris Simpson there if its a bunsen

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I'd like to see Natalie Imbruglia and Kylie Minogue open the attack with Rolf Harris and Jason Donovan the third and fourth seamers - that would leave Clive James as the best spinning option.
I'm still not convinced we'd win but at least there might be someone wearing more jewellery that Kevin Pietersen.

 

[Craig]

Haha I have a better chance then Chris Simpson.

 

[wfdu_ben91]

Johnson
Clark
Siddle
Hilfenhaus
Watson

 

[andyc]

Please edit him in, aswell as Dirk Nannes if you would be so kind.

Gah, damn you mods.

 

[Nate]

Serves you right imo.

 

[Matt79]

Pointless this far out, unless we're talking purely hypothetically "everyone fit and firing", in which case, I'd take

Johnson
Lee
Clark
McGain
Watson
12th: Siddle

Unless Lee is absolutely back to his best however, I'd prefer Siddle in the team. And it's a steep road from here for Lee to get to that point.

I'm pretty certain one of Lee or Clark won't be fit and my man Siddle can play, so it will be
Johnson
Lee/Clark
Siddle
McGain
Watson
12th: Hilfenhaus

 

[four_or_six]

Good to see Clark will play for Kent in the run-up. It will be the perfect chance to see how he's going.

 

[SJS]

It doesn't say how many bowlers to be picked so I thought maybe the poll programme will stop me when I have nominated the 'upper limit'. I started checking names from the best bowler (in my opinion) onwards and kept doing it till stopped ..... I wasn't

Then I thought maybe it was a list for an all time Australian bowling attack but I quickly realised that it wasn't long enough for that - for that list would have 298 entries (by a criteria at least as stringent as what may have been adopted for this list) as on date from Warne who bowled those boring 40.705 balls to Peter Toohey whose career was illuminated by those two tantalising deliveries he bowled to a pair of nervous West Indian openers. Unfortunately they hit the winning run off the second of these and we were deprived of more of this genius at the bowling crease.