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Australian test selection 2019-2020

Shady Slim

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harris should have never been taken over there lol, it should have been burns before him or bancroft tbh

we're feeling the pinch of selecting bats that were obviously going to struggle against the swinging ball, like we do every time we tour england for the ashes, so i'm not exactly surprised
 

vcs

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Starc would have definitely finished the job yesterday but there's no way to tell whether a four-man attack including him would have got them into that position in the first place.
 

morgieb

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Yeah, but with Wade's keeping we can look forward to Lyon ceasing to take wickets.
Ehh, in his last stint in the side as the keeper he really wasn't that bad with the gloves. Certainly Lyon had no problem sweeping through India and Sri Lanka with him behind the stumps.
 

TheJediBrah

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Wade being a bad keeper meme will never end. He isn't any worse than Paine these days from what I've seen
 

morgieb

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Wade being a bad keeper meme will never end. He isn't any worse than Paine these days from what I've seen
Shows how awful he was when he first started out. I agree that him and Paine are pretty even at this point (nothing special but both adequate)
 

Bahnz

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Who would captain if Paine drops out? Wade doesn't strike me as the right type of character, and Head seems still a long way from truly establishing himself in the side, while Khawaja seems to be nearly as close to getting the axe as Paine. Lyon maybe - though it's always best to have a batsman to make objective decisions about who should/shouldn't be bowling.
 

Starfighter

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How about they introduce socialist cricket and do it collectively? Field change conversations are so long and involved these days they're half way there anyway.
 

stephen

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I think the management are waiting for Smith's ban to finish, but the order of captains I'd like to see are:

Paine
Head
Khawaja
Smith
Lyon
 

Spark

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Pick Ponting and let him captain. Probably make more runs at his age than most of the team anyway.
It's genuinely amusing to hear him call for more aggressive field placings tbh. He's rarely wrong, but it wasn't exactly something he was famed for as captain.
 

mr_mister

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It's genuinely amusing to hear him call for more aggressive field placings tbh. He's rarely wrong, but it wasn't exactly something he was famed for as captain.
This seems to be the case with nearly every ex captain commentator
 

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I would really dislike seeing Khawaja captain. Lazy apathetic body language does not suit a captain.
 

Niall

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I think the management are waiting for Smith's ban to finish, but the order of captains I'd like to see are:

Paine
Head
Khawaja
Smith
Lyon
I suppose Finch as a middle order batsman and captain would never be considered? I know he got runs for Surrey in the last 4 day game he played although unsure about how he has done in previous middle order batting outings.
 

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Brettig pimping Tontine as captain on cricinfo today, poses the question "Why not?"
Lazy, apathetic body language. Isn't going to inspire effort at the end of a long day in the field. Just coasts along on his natural ability. Appears to not value his wicket as much as he should. Lazy and poor fielder. All attributes I don't like in a captain.

Would much prefer Cummins if the only two choices were him and Khawaja. Would definitely prefer Head, Lyon, Haze, or even Wade, if it boiled down.
 

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