***Official*** Australia in New Zealand 2016

[Bahnz]

yes, farewell to Afridi without the bowling

McCullum admittedly a less imaginative captain than the great one

 

[Howe_zat]

It's a poor Australian bowling attack. Seriously! losing wickets to Boland, Hastings and Marsh? try reading Mustafizur Rahman.

I feel like if anyone did this with England or Australia players they would have been infracted by now.

Instead it's Bangladesh, so we take more of a 'oh you' kind of approach, like when an excitable puppy pisses on the floor

 

[Gob]

please god no

You misspelled there guy. I'm not god I'm Gob

 

[Burgey]

Mitch Marsh to open? Just flog through the line like Arun does now. Usman at three, TPC four and Jimmy Stewart five (for now. Agree he won't likely be there at the next WC). Then The Big No at six, Inbred at seven, Nev eight and the bowlers. The attack would likely be Starc, Haze, MMarsh, Inbred and Zampa with some overs by Big No.

 

[Spark]

I feel like if anyone did this with England or Australia players they would have been infracted by now.

Instead it's Bangladesh, so we take more of a 'oh you' kind of approach, like when an excitable puppy pisses on the floor

That post actually was infracted ftr.

Mitch Marsh to open? Just flog through the line like Arun does now. Usman at three, TPC four and Jimmy Stewart five (for now. Agree he won't likely be there at the next WC). Then The Big No at six, Inbred at seven, Nev eight and the bowlers. The attack would likely be Starc, Haze, MMarsh, Inbred and Zampa with some overs by Big No.

Probably putting too much on his plate tbh, although I do know they experimented with him at #3 in that stupid tri-series 18 months back. The role he plays right now is just fine for him.

 

[Burgey]

I feel like if anyone did this with England or Australia players they would have been infracted by now.

Instead it's Bangladesh, so we take more of a 'oh you' kind of approach, like when an excitable puppy pisses on the floor

I actually didn't understand the post.

 

[Spikey]

take that howe

 

[Prince EWS]

I feel like if anyone did this with England or Australia players they would have been infracted by now.

Funnily enough I'd actually given him an infraction for that post already.

There's some truth in what you say though; he probably would have got a stack more already if it wasn't Bangladesh.

 

[Spikey]

warner/finch
usman
smith
lynn
maxwell
mmarsh
NEV!
who cares

 

[Spikey]

i guess you could keep bailey in there for stability and float lynn in whenever people get rested

 

[Spark]

To be honest if the alternative is Boland then I don't see much reason why you can't play both MMarsh and Faulkner as fully fledged all-rounders, expected to contribute fully with both bat and ball. Which I guess means you play Zampa as your spinner and the extra proper batsman rather than the all-rounder.

 

[cnerd123]

Funnily enough I'd actually given him an infraction for that post already.

There's some truth in what you say though; he probably would have got a stack more already if it wasn't Bangladesh.

And tbf Fizzy is way better than Boland, so he's not completely wrong either

 

[Prince EWS]

To be honest if the alternative is Boland then I don't see much reason why you can't play both MMarsh and Faulkner as fully fledged all-rounders, expected to contribute fully with both bat and ball.

I think Faulkner makes the side at full strength on bowling alone unless they decide to play a spinner, and then he still makes it until Starc is back.

Faulkner v Hastings becomes a tough call if Starc is fit and Wade is playing, but I'd rather ditch Wade, play a specialist keeper and have Faulkner at seven; a role which he definitely beats out Hastings for.

1 Finch
2 Warner
3 Khawaja
4 Smith
5 Maxwell
6 Marsh
7 Faulkner
8 Nevill
9 Hastings/Zampa
10 Starc
11 Haze

That's what I'd be looking at, moving forward. I'd be tempted to stick Nevill up the order at 5 if three early wickets fell too, as cake.

 

[Senile Sentry]

so mediocre he scored three fifties in three wc knockouts

at home may I add?

 

[Spark]

I think Faulkner makes the side at full strength on bowling alone unless they decide to play a spinner, and then he still makes it until Starc is back.

Faulkner v Hastings becomes a tough call if Starc is fit and Wade is playing, but I'd rather ditch Wade, play a specialist keeper and have Faulkner at seven; a role which he definitely beats out Hastings for.

1 Finch
2 Warner
3 Khawaja
4 Smith
5 Maxwell
6 Marsh
7 Faulkner
8 Nevill
9 Hastings/Zampa
10 Starc
11 Haze

That's what I'd be looking at, moving forward. I'd be tempted to stick Nevill up the order at 5 if three early wickets fell too, as cake.

Yeah it's genuinely hard to pick an order for all of 5-8. I'd just use them in a floating basis tbh, and just send out whoever is most suited to whatever situation.

 

[91Jmay]

Is Zampa good?

 

[Senile Sentry]

Well done NZ. I thought 240 was indefensible but they managed it. Questions galore for Australia. Especially the continued viability of Bailey who's clearly on the decline now. Maxwell has suddenly gone into a shell with just 16 runs in his last 5 international innings.

 

[Spark]

Is Zampa good?

He looks it. He's still basically a kid, but he's accurate enough, has good variations and definitely seems to have the stomach for the fight. Two matches, but nonetheless a lot to like already.

Any time a leggie is getting top order bats caught at cover/short cover, that's a sign that they have some talent.

 

[Prince EWS]

Is Zampa good?

I'm not convinced he's the best spinner available tbh. I was just using him as code for 'whichever random spinner they've chucked in the squad on the day'. He deserves a run for now though.

 

[hendrix]

I feel like if anyone did this with England or Australia players they would have been infracted by now.

Instead it's Bangladesh, so we take more of a 'oh you' kind of approach, like when an excitable puppy pisses on the floor

Funnily enough I'd actually given him an infraction for that post already.

There's some truth in what you say though; he probably would have got a stack more already if it wasn't Bangladesh.

That's pretty condescending.

There's at least one other Bangladeshi user on here who's a pretty good poster.

And (myself being from the Land of The Great Inferiority Complex), there's no need to talk out your arse when your team is actually doing pretty well.