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***Official*** Australia in the West Indies 2012
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Furball
Evil Scotsman
Didn't anywhere near enough appreciation.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Woopdedoo, he's bashed a few minnows in his time. Give me a call when he does something remotely memorable.
Flem274*
123/5
Winds you up, which is entertaining.
Every time someone rants about Kallis, I like him even more. I love cricketers who get hated on, except for Kohli; he's a ****.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
You seem to have me confused with Burgey.
WindieWeathers
International Regular
Narine would have been a certain starter, but he's not under contract so the board is in a corner, if the lad wanted to stay then he would be picked but obviously that isn't the case so i guess Bishoo will have to do, not bad really considering he won the 'emerging player of the year' award last year!!
.It does p/ss me off though because the IPL is pretty much destroying any hopes we have of putting our best team out on the park..
.With all that said i'm still hopeful that the team i named will put up a decent fight.
WindieWeathers
International Regular
Yep thats him, he's come on leaps and bounds since then, had a spell with the high performance academy and has played for Barbados, CCC and the West Indies A-team, his bowling average in all forms is pretty decent right now and he's just finished as the top pacer in our current four day competition, he's not lightening fast, i'd say he's like Broad or Phillander but he can swing it both ways, bowls a good line and gets major bounce, Ambrose is his new bowling coach at CCC now so no doubt Amby has been giving the lad some tips and it's starting to bear fruit from what i've seen, it's gonna be interesting to see how he does against the Aussies.
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WindieWeathers
International Regular
I don't think so, many of our players going to the IPL either performed against India (like Russell) or performed in the champions league for Trinidad (like Narine, Pollard, Kevon Cooper etc).
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roseboy64
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He did well in the T20 tournament by slashing his bat at every delivery and he got lucky. It's still working for him to some extent so despite him possibly not deserving selection, he's done well enough that he's worth a go and will likely be in WT20 squad. Hopefully not starting though, would like:
Gayle
Smith
Simmonds
Pollard
Sammy
Russell
Baugh/Ramdin
Narine
Badree
Rampaul/Edwards
Santokie/Edwards
Charles, Bishoo, Bravo
roseboy64
Cricket Web Content Updater
Can't disagree much with this except Braithwaite. He's in such horrible form I'd rather him not be destroyed so early. No idea who available could come in for him though. It's really only middle order batsmen who've done anything this season.Well the Gayle situation is still up in the air although he's very close to coming back but it's doubtful that this will be the series he returns, meanwhile Dwayne Bravo, Pollard, Narine, Samuels and Russell are IPL bound, with that in mind the team is likely to look like...
Brathwaite
Barath
Kirk Edwards
Darren Bravo
Chanderpaul
Deonarine
Ramdin (wk)
Sammy
Rampaul
Edwards/Roach
Bishoo
The Sammy situation still leaves me cold, i know he's captained the team well in these limited overs games but the fact is we need someone who can take wickets now, and he's not really done that in the series thus far, at the same time Fidel looked on fire yesterday while Roach is getting back to his best, Rampaul came back for Trinidad yesterday in a four day game and is a certain pick if he's fit because he's been our best pacer over the last twelve months, so it's gonna be a tough choice for the selectors,
Deonarine has been the best batsman in our current four day competition and is also taking wickets with his off-breaks, so he's seen as a natural replacement for Samuels, i'd even say he's much better with the bat right now to be honest, Brathwaite and Barath might not be the most experienced opening pair but they put up a 131 run opening partnerhship against india in our last Test so they've shown they can dig in, one dark horse might be a young pacer named Jason Holder who will be playing against Australia in the warm up match in a few days, if he does well he might find himself in the squad, many believe he could be the next Ambrose.
uvelocity
International Coach
ohh thats sad. poor buggers, best wishes.
WindieWeathers
International Regular
Got a 40 yesterday against Trinidad which was a timely little boost for the kid!!
, to be honest there is no-one else, Powell has been poor and i can't see the selectors moving Kirk up the order when he's been so good at number three, Kraigg averages over 30 in his last four tests so i honestly think the selectors will stick with him for this series at least.
