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Australian Domestic Season 2011-12
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stephen
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I get the feeling that Katich is on better terms with the NSW selectors than the Aus selectors.
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Bowlers being captains. Against it as a rule.
vic_orthdox
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Six months? Three years....
stephen
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True, but his woes began the moment he had the operation.
Speaking of, what was he doing playing for the U23s game?
Queensland Under-23s v New South Wales Under-23s at Brisbane, Sep 26-28, 2011 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
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He meant when he got injured he was out for about 6 months, came back to fitness then there was no spot for him.
stephen
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Yeah I should have clarified by adding "now" before I said he was being talked about losing his state spot.
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Three (pretty sure) over age players allowed per team.
SamSawnoff
U19 Vice-Captain
Every other bowler in Aus is in sick bay half the time but never him. I'm worried about the Warriors being stuck with him and his obscene good health sooner rather than later. They'll have to play him.I thought he was in doubt to tour SA because of an injury he'd picked up?
You've just sunk my hopes
WAC
Apparently Duffield is not fit enough to be considered for selection at present. Which says poor things about his attitude.
robelinda
International Vice-Captain
And finally cricinfo have a player page for him. He did look ok in the match on sunday, good on them for picking him, looked to have pretty decent temperament.
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"Ben Rohrer will take the reins for the opening games of the season with O'Keefe in South Africa with Australia's Twenty20 squad."
Australia news: Simon Katich dumped as New South Wales captain, Steve O'Keefe to take over | Australia Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo
jesus ****ing christ NSW. what the hell are you doing
adub
International Captain
We'll just have to agree to disagree. Generally you won't get any argument out of me that best 4 bowlers, keeper and best 6 bats (with fingers crossed at least one of them can bowl some useful overs) is the way to go. But in the situation NSW is in I think we can and should take advantage of more attacking options.
Firstly I consider Smith a batsman first and foremost. He'd be 6th bowler in any NSW side at best. I wouldn't consider him to be a genuine 5th bowler option at this stage, but fingers crossed he improves enough to be that one day. And secondly I rate Nevil, Hauritz and SOK as very good bats at Shield level. None of them would look out of place as Test No.7/8 I reckon. For that reason I don't think you lose anything at all having them fill 6/7/8 in a Shield line up. Most Shield no.6s aren't much chop anyway so you're at least on par if not better than your opponents. Add to that a top 5 which will almost always have 4 test bats and 1 future test bat and if we don't make enough runs then we deserve to lose. So for me the balance of the side is fine with 5 front line bowlers so long as SOK and Haurie are two of them with the advantage of more quality attacking options.
adub
International Captain
Now that one is a shock. I'm a big fan of Rohrer, but surely Kat, or even Uzi if they wanted to look to the future would have been better bets. It does say something that neither Hughes nor Khawaja (nor even Smith) were considered as second in command after SOK. I would have though Usman at least would be someone you'd want to see how leadership fit with an eye to possible replacements for Clarke down the track.
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I guess they figured given how often Usman/Hughes/Smith aren't available at their already young ages there's no point giving it to them. But in any chance Katich, Hauritz and Moises (if he plays. I guess he won't now.) will be playing and have also captained NSW and Jaques the 2nd XI so why not them? This is just absurd. I can't get my head around all this at all. I was excited to see the teams we pick but now I'm fearing it.