Really mate, I hope that Hilditch and his band idiots are kicked out after this, that can be the only good to come out of this defeat, the kind of mistakes they have made so far during their tenure are just simply ridiculous, though if they remain in charge after the Ashes, then I'm certainly gonna scream.
This is why I would always advocate picking a spinner to be honest, even if a pitch seemed initially very flat and completely dust free, having a spinner will allow some variation and allows for something different if the pitch changes drastically. I know England have often been allowed the luxury of taking this approach due to them having an allrounder like Flintoff meaning that effectively they could select 5 bowlers, and Australia aren't really able to do this, but I personally would always include a spinner if there was one of semi-decent quality available.
I have a feeling that Ponting doesn't have much say in these selections, because I really don't see much sense in him first backing his four pacers to come good in the game, and then during the progression of the game, banking all of sudden on his part-timer to do the job
Don't see a wicket falling this evening, but its very likely we might capitulate once again tomorrow.
Yeah indeed, though I doubt for the forseeable future we will find out his true thoughts on this issue. He's not really going to be able to come out and say either of "nah mate, I wanted to pick Katich" or "well unfortunately our seamers weren't up to the job so I had to bowl Marcus into the ground".
The thing is the fast bowlers apart from Clark haven't been too bad, they did a very decent job on unhelpful track in the 1st innings, so Ponting should have shown more faith in them in the 2nd innings as well, because its really due to the capitulation of our batting in the 1st innings that we find ourselves in so much trouble atm.
