***Official*** Australia in India 2017

[NUFAN]

Here are Swepson's bowling performances this Shield season.

Vs NSW
15 - 0 - 65 - 0
11 - 0 - 65 - 1 (warner out for 134)

Vs VIC
20.2 - 2 - 107 - 2 (Wade bowled 3, Holland 5 - last wicket)

Vs WA
28 - 2 - 100 - 2 (Wells stumped 46, Klinger 9)
16 - 3 - 56 - 3 (Turner c&b 49, Whiteman 5, Agar 5)

Vs WA
4.3 - 0 - 14 - 2 (Moody 9, Turner 100 - last wicket)
4 - 0 - 23 - 0

So overall pretty expensive. He has dismissed two tailenders and a couple of batsman that were definitely taking him on. These numbers don't scream out pick me.

 

[TheJediBrah]

He has almost 0% chance of actually playing, barring injury or severely bad performances

 

[Spark]

He has almost 0% chance of actually playing, barring injury or severely bad performances

don't tempt fate

 

[Starfighter]

Still can't believe we fell for Warne's forced Swepson meme, absolutely disgusting.

Would take him over Zampa tbh. Somewhat surprised he wasn't picked, there seemed to be a bit of a hype train around him earlier in the season but it's disappeared.

 

[Adders]

He has almost 0% chance of actually playing, barring injury or severely bad performances

Really hard to imagine that happening to an Australian side in India tbh.

 

[Midwinter]

Swepson is one of GChappell's up and comers.Played for CA XI in 2015.

He doesn't deserve to be picked on his performances but once you go past Lyon and O'Keefe, (Holland being injured), what spinner does ?

He is not up to top level cricket yet but hopefully he will be in the future.

 

[Shri]

Swepson is one of GChappell's up and comers.Played for CA XI in 2015.

He doesn't deserve to be picked on his performances but once you go past Lyon and O'Keefe, (Holland being injured), what spinner does ?

He is not up to top level cricket yet but hopefully he will be in the future.

Greg C also thought Raina was the best batting talent he had seen in India, so not sure what that means.

 

[Furball]

Greg C also thought Raina was the best batting talent he had seen in India, so not sure what that means.

So did some of you guys. Teja had him down for 8,000+ runs at 50, and some people backed him to be better than Kohli when predicting who would be the best Indian batsman of the youngsters who emerged around 2010.

 

[indiaholic]

Teja was in love with Sreesanth too... If GC's taste is as bad as Teja's then may the heavens help him.

 

[OverratedSanity]

I was so on the sreesanth hypetrain.

 

[Shri]

I was so on the sreesanth hypetrain.

I ****ing hate how Dhoni managed him. You don't flog your players to the press no matter what they do as long as it is not against the team's interests.

 

[Burgey]

Greg C also thought Raina was the best batting talent he had seen in India, so not sure what that means.

So did Rahul Dravid.

 

[Daemon]

I ****ing hate how Dhoni managed him. You don't flog your players to the press no matter what they do as long as it is not against the team's interests.

Could care less about the match fixing scum

 

[Midwinter]

Greg C also thought Raina was the best batting talent he had seen in India, so not sure what that means.

Yeah, that's what we are up against.

Its not that these blokes don't have talent, it's just that they are not held up against a measurable standard.

 

[Burgey]

I'm not a massive recent Chappell fan, and given his recent record I'm wondering if it was the other selectors in the 80s who plucked the young Aussie blokes who eventually became greats and GC just went along with them.

 

[Shri]

Could care less about the match fixing scum

Yeah **** him, obviously. But, this was before all that.

 

[Furball]

I ****ing hate how Dhoni managed him. You don't flog your players to the press no matter what they do as long as it is not against the team's interests.

Harbhajan had the right idea.

 

[indiaholic]

So did Rahul Dravid.

What did Dravid say? Don't remember him being as effusive in his praise as Chappell

 

[Burgey]

What did Dravid say? Don't remember him being as effusive in his praise as Chappell

Suresh Raona is he next big thing. All class as style.

First sentence is verbatim iirc. Someone had it as their sig on here years ago.

 

[Gob]

How on earth would you expect to win a test series/match in the sub continent by having Mathew Wade as the only keeper in the touring squad? Wade might not have dropped many so far but just judging by the way he catches the ball of off spinners on these wickets you can just tell that his keeping on turning pitch is a car crash waiting to happen.