Australian test selection thread 2015/16

[Tangles]

Article on the CA site is tipping Bancroft and Uzi to get the nod at 2 and 3 with MMarsh at 6. While no Darsh would be good snubbing Burns would be a poor effort imo.

 

[Red]

If SMarsh doesn't play this test it's fairly indicative that the selectors want to move on from him forever.

 

[Gnske]

Article on the CA site is tipping Bancroft and Uzi to get the nod at 2 and 3 with MMarsh at 6. While no Darsh would be good snubbing Burns would be a poor effort imo.

To be fair, Bancroft keeps Burns and Kwaj out of short leg. Uzi absolutely blew it last time and Burns is a middling fielder.

Still, would be weird for a guy who has spent the majority of his year rehabilitating to take over from the incumbent after having done nothing.

 

[Spark]

You can still drop Darsh and have Burns really, no.5 would serve him will.

We are assuming Voges gets picked, yes?

 

[Gnske]

We are assuming Voges gets picked, yes?

Yeah I knew I forgot someone at 5, edited it to what I was originally going to spew.

 

[Spark]

Hard to tell with Burns re: fielding tbh, most of what we saw was with him as arguably the worst short leg fielder modern Test cricket has seen.

 

[howardj]

To be fair, Bancroft keeps Burns and Kwaj out of short leg. Uzi absolutely blew it last time and Burns is a middling fielder.

Still, would be weird for a guy who has spent the majority of his year rehabilitating to take over from the incumbent after having done nothing.

Yeah, exactly. It's like a few people have said Usman at the start of the Summer and everyone else has jumped on the bandwagon with a snowball effect

He's done nothing in the last 12 months, and is set to leap frog a guy who has played 2 Test; the last of which he got half centuries in each innings?

It makes no sense and only promotes a climate of insecurity among the players at a time where all our new players will be yearning for some security about their place in the team

As Steve Waugh has said: "insecurity is the biggest killer of cricket careers at the highest level"

 

[Spikey]

Article on the CA site is tipping Bancroft and Uzi to get the nod at 2 and 3 with MMarsh at 6. While no Darsh would be good snubbing Burns would be a poor effort imo.

not as poor as most of his efforts at batting tho. m i rite

 

[adub]

Hard to tell with Burns re: fielding tbh, most of what we saw was with him as arguably the worst short leg fielder modern Test cricket has seen.

Or arguably the smartest short leg fielder modern Test cricket has seen.

 

[adub]

If SMarsh doesn't play this test it's fairly indicative that the selectors want to move on from him forever.

Nah, he'll still have someone on the panel putting his name forward 5 years after dies.

 

[Midwinter]

Or arguably the smartest short leg fielder modern Test cricket has seen.

good one

 

[Red]

Steve Smith (c), David Warner (vc), Joe Burns, Josh Hazlewood, Usman Khawaja, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Peter Nevill, Mitchell Starc, Peter Siddle, Adam Voges.

 

[Red]

So

Warner
Burns
Khawaja
Smith
Voges
MMarsh
Nevill
Johnson
Starc
Siddle/Hazelwood
Lyon

 

[adub]

Bit pissed as I went for Boo-urns in the Shield draft assuming Bankers would get the nod. But pleased that the guy who was probably the most consistent Shield opener over the past two seasons and who had done ok in his Test chance got the nod.

I am like many a bit baffled as to why now Uzi is a must pick and has to push Smitteh down to four, but I'll cross my fingers and hope for the best.

I really though Voges might have been in a bit of strife after the Matador. Maybe the last few digs have helped him hold on. Smarsh is in an interesting spot. You'd reckon if Burns or Khawaja went that Bancroft (or maybe an outside chance of Ed) would be the next in line, so he might be seen now as only a chance for the middle order ie sweating on Voges going before someone else comes along and pushes him out of contention.

Mitch needs runs. He'll probably get all three NZ tests, but if he hasn't tonned up or at least been consistently putting 40s on the board questions should be asked. I think Moz offers more now, but Marsh is going to get the chance to secure the spot to no ones surprise.

7-11 is pretty self explanatory with only Siddle making way for Haze (or not) up for discussion. Pattinson to be closely monitored to assess when he comes into the 12.

All up happy enough with that side.

 

[Dan]

I'd have preferred Cowan opening with Burns at 4, and no Ussie, but otherwise its pretty expected.

Win for Dan Pty Ltd Ltd in the Shield draft though. Bancroft a master-stroke selection.

 

[Gnske]

If we had good selectors surely Cowman would be ahead of Bancroft at the moment? He'd have to be pretty close as is.

 

[Spikey]

Cowan ain't getting picked again when Lehmann is coach, we all know that. I suspect Jackson Bird might be in a similar position. But look even if Cowan was in contention, it doesn't really change much: the options are bleak.

 

[Dan]

awta

EDIT: @Gnske, though Spikey is right too.

 

[adub]

I suspect Jackson Bird might be in a similar position.

Top speed 139kmh - paper's marked.

 

[dfrinku]

Cowan ain't getting picked again when Lehmann is coach, we all know that. I suspect Jackson Bird might be in a similar position. But look even if Cowan was in contention, it doesn't really change much: the options are bleak.

Why is that re Cowan and Bird?