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***Official*** South Africa in Australia 2012

Cabinet96

Cabinet96

Hall of Fame Member
Australia have quite a lot of quality wicketkeepers at the moment. I know Paine gets a lot of stick here, but most countries would love for him to be their third choice wicketkeeper.
 
Andre

Andre

International Regular
I've got huge concerns over Wade's glovework. Would want to improve that area dramatically or the spot could be Paine's vs SL.
 
Spikey

Spikey

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don't think haddin will retire mid-season, so if wade's glove work is a problem, and it may well be, i could see wade just playing as a batsman and haddin playing. (cowan out, watson opening.)
 
JBMAC

JBMAC

State Captain
Michael Clarke (capt), David Warner, Ed Cowan, Shane Watson, Ricky Ponting, Mike Hussey, Matthew Wade, James Pattinson, Peter Siddle, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Ben Hilfenhaus (12th man to be named).
 
Viscount Tom

Viscount Tom

International Debutant
howardj said:
I think Starc is a little like Johnson myself in the sense that his ability with the white ball is somwhat being confused with his ability with the red ball. No doubt a stack of potential, but I'd like to see him bank some more FC performances rather than travelling around with the Test squad all summer. He never seems to make the red ball talk anywhere near as much.
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Tbf at least with Starc his action is no way near as bad.

Could probably do with another season with us if I'm honest got interrupted too much by Australia picking him for the A tour rather than leaving him to feed of Siddy and Dizzy IMO.
 
vic_orthdox

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
Viscount Tom said:
Tbf at least with Starc his action is no way near as bad.

Could probably do with another season with us if I'm honest got interrupted too much by Australia picking him for the A tour rather than leaving him to feed of Siddy and Dizzy IMO.
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Yorkshire would have taken him knowing that he was going to be missing all those games with Aus A. If there was no Australia A tour, doubt he would've been sent over in the first place.
 
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vic_orthdox

vic_orthdox

Global Moderator
Don't think Wade's glove work is quite there yet, but if it continues to improve at the rate that it has, can see him "doing a Prior" and being a very reliable gloveman by the time he is in his batting prime.
 
Justo

Justo

U19 Debutant
At least Wade's got a bit of match awareness though. Nothing like backing away towards leg when your teams 5 wickets down for 20 odd.
 
howardj

howardj

International Coach
benchmark00 said:
Don't know how anyone can like Wade. Real ****ish sort of character.
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Yeah, really unsavoury incident at the AB Field last year when he was warming up, and a girl yelled out to him over the fence. He seems like a prick, at a first blush. Not that it really matters, I guess.
 
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