vic_orthdox
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Weetbix Standard Time, as opposed to KFCST?
Only way Hughes will be considered is if selectors haven't seen him bat this season - has looked truly awful in all formatsso maybe hughes in and bailey not even touring
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Bailey axed the Australian reporting. Won't even make touring party.
Marsh to be used as a human shield for him against Sth AfricaFerguson going to get a gig howard?
But ex-captain and former national selector Allan Border strongly believes that South Australian opener Phil Hughes, who made such a memorable entrance to Test cricket in South Africa five years ago and was in sparkling form in early season Bupa Sheffield Shield games, should go ahead of Doolan.
“There’s no-one really knocking the door down with hundred after hundred after hundred - I mean Doolan is averaging in the 30s,” Border told radio 2SM on Friday.
“I have a very soft spot for young (Phil) Hughes and I think he’s been badly treated in the past.
“Maybe they’re just making him really earn his stripes again this time.
“He’s just so far in front of any other contender it’s not funny so I’m hoping they’ll take Hughes on the plane (to South Africa).
“It looks like Doolan’s jumped in front of him and I’m not 100 per cent sure why, I think Hughes is definitely in the frame.”