Onto 2015

[Spark]

Well this is over bar the yelling, so let's look forward.

Sides for 2015. Gogogo.

 

[Spikey]

after his poor performance in the West Indies, you really have to wonder if KP still has the drive.

 

[Maximas]

after his poor performance in the West Indies, you really have to wonder if KP still has the drive.

His pull shot has also been a bit ordinary of late

 

[GIMH]

Looking at the squad

Still in the side:
Cook, Root, Bell, Broad

Maybes:
Pietersen, Stokes, Bresnan, Finn, Anderson, Ballance, Prior, Bairstow

Nots:
Trott, Carberry, Swann, Tremlett, Rankin

 

[ajdude]

after his poor performance in the West Indies, you really have to wonder if KP still has the drive.

he did have a decent World Cup though. Test captain and World Cup player of the tournament Steve Smith to have a big series though

 

[Burgey]

Silk
Warner
Doolan/ The Prince
Clarke
TPC
Horsehead
Nev
Patto
Starc
Cummins
Lyon

 

[ajdude]

Hazlewood's best FC figures at the time of the first test in 2015: 4/51

 

[Spikey]

pumped to see how george dockrell goes. with the re-call of morgan, this team has an irish favour

 

[Spark]

Silk
Warner
Doolan/ The Prince
Clarke
TPC
Horsehead
Nev
Patto
Starc
Cummins
Lyon

I'd be surprised if Cummins played. Will only really have one FC season at most under his belt.

 

[benchmark00]

I'd be surprised if Cummins played. Will only really have one FC season at most under his belt.

How many did he have prior to his debut boi?

 

[Spikey]

really believe hilf's comeback in this summer was just a fluke. it would be a mistake to pick him imo

 

[Spark]

Yeah but the far is that he'll just break down the moment he tries to bowl more than 20 overs. They'll probably want to make sure he can actually string a few games of cricket together first.

Dunno. They might. They might not.

 

[ajdude]

really believe hilf's comeback in this summer was just a fluke. it would be a mistake to pick him imo

care to give us a few paragraphs on why you think that Corbin? good of you to have changed your cricketweb name to reflect your irl name btw

 

[Spark]

really believe hilf's comeback in this summer was just a fluke. it would be a mistake to pick him imo

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No I don't think he does. He's got some, of course. But I don't think he knows how he did it.

of course, my angry at hilf's selection has little to do with the man himself. i'm sure he's a good man, tasmanian and all. but i just find it infuriating that a person who performed so badly, so utterly terrible, during the ashes and has hardly done anything since (was that 5 wicket haul featuring 4 victorians who usually bat 7 to 11 really that impressive?) can come back. Now I know you're gonna point out all the injures, but we all knew the dropping of Hilf was a reluctant one. The guy still got ****ing picked for the 5th Ashes test for heaven's sake. Did we cut the CA contract? Nope. We sent him to the Aus A tour where he was in a battle with Copeland and Siddle instead! And where of course he utterly terrible. Was that the last straw, at least in the short term? Of course not! He got picked for Aus A against NZ where even Starc outperformed him. He was so so so bad during the ashes. It may have actually been the worst series performance by an Australian bowler in an Ashes series, keeping in mind this was over 4 tests. So many flaws got shown up; the lack of threat posed by him of course being at the forefront. So after 6 ****ing FC games, at an average of over 30, where his two best bowling performances have featured cleaning up the tail, he's fixed them? I'm deadly serious when I say give me Josh ****ing Lalor instead. Are we gonna pick Hughes asap if he scores two 50's in his Shield games at the end of the season and claims his bad form was because his pet Dog Buster died?

But hey good luck on boxing day buddy. Given you average 65 at the MCG you'll need it

 

[benchmark00]

care to give us a few paragraphs on why you think that Corbin? good of you to have changed your cricketweb name to reflect your irl name btw

You weren't around for the Melbourne test in 2013 because you were banned for inappropriate ***ual references, but all of us on here were excited by Hilfenhaus's performance after a shock call up following injuries to Coota Nile and B00llinger.

 

[Spikey]

stand by every word tbh.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Can't believe they left out Johnson, he destroyed us last time but then again his record in England is pants and he has reverted to being dog poo again.

 

[Spikey]

You weren't around for the Melbourne test in 2013 because you were banned for inappropriate ***ual references, but all of us on here were excited by Hilfenhaus's performance after a shock call up following injuries to Coota Nile and B00llinger.

I personally felt that Matt Wade should have been picked

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Back Yorkshire to get relegated this year as half the team are on international duty.

 

[morgieb]

I personally felt that Matt Wade should have been picked

We need some good old fashioned pitch tampering.