No team can afford to have so many unproven (Marnus, Green) or mercurial (Maxwell, Stoinis, Marsh) players at once. None of these guys should be in contention to make the side as batsmen alone anyway but even if they are, balance considerations should've meant only one of them plays.
Mate we don't have much better. Both have to be picked. I mean I agree overall with you but we're not flush with batting talent to imagine we have two better to replace the bolded.
Anyway, now's the time to panic. Swap Marsh and Marnus until Travis is fit. Marsh has been rubbish but you'd back him to score runs over the the likes of Maxi and Stoin. He's won us a T20 WC and scored an ashes ton recently so the ability is there. Besides you can't drop all of them. Bring Green in at 5 and make him work. You pick a team with options and then don't use them. Inglis and Carey ... hmm let's see. We probably need someone who's a better fit down the order which suggests Carey but since the switch is made may as well stick with Inglis.
Never been a fan of Maxi but at least he's bowling well. But all that shows is the selectors went in light with spin and then relied on the wrong kind for India. You kind of wonder if the selectors pay attention. You'd think quality is a good argument for selection and I wonder why we don't keep guys like Usman and Lyon in the mix. I'd feel better if they were in the squad. The sidelining of Daniel Hughes is a disgrace. What's the policy here? We don't rate quality test players for odis but won't pick blokes who tear it up domestically in the format.
We deprive ourselves of balance with the fixation on Stoin. Why can't the selectors see he's junk? I don't even think he's domestic standard so what's he even doing there? His continued selection has filled him up with an unentitled sense of self belief when he's just lucky. Get sick of seeing him balance his helmet on his fat bonce walking back to the pavilion having made 4. And that dropped catch ... just get lost.
My word the fielding - and as a consequence the captaincy. Cummins is a bad choice, he's low energy. Whatever part he played in shivving Langer and placing the bloodied robe around the Ranga betrays an attitude imo. If what I'm reading about the current regime is true then the culture of slack is Cummins' choice. I think he should be dropped and throw the captaincy to Smith. Like a few others here I was worried when Warner took a catch and the low key reaction was pretty unsettling. Even before that there was a telling sign with Inglis' reaction to his own mistakes.
The scheduling of the warms up was strange. SA is our Bermuda Triangle atm so why did we go to country where we screw up so badly and where the conditions are different to where we'll be playing? Poor selection, poor form, poor preparation and a side that seemingly has no ambition to win this thing. Our only hope is that we manage to snag a few Ws before Travis' return and hopefully he can produce the miracle not even the bible is capable of.
