Haha, I find this criticism of North to be a bit silly, the guy is just two series old, and has been one of our better batsmen in both of those series, his Yuvraj Singh like technique might make people think he would struggle as test batsman, but the fact of the matter is he scored runs in South Africa, as well as in England.
As for people saying he only scores runs when the team is well on top, then that's another thing that's not really true, during the 1st test in South Africa he scored his century at a pretty crucial time on a difficult pitch against a pretty good attack, the runs he scored at Cardiff, Edgbaston and Leeds also were scored when he came to the crease after the fall of a few quick wickets, so its not fair to suggest that he doesn't score runs when the team is under pressure.
As for Hussey, I think it was only the matter of him breaking out of that slump, and with that century at the Oval he has done that now, so would be very surprised if he starts struggling all over again anytime soon.
