I guess you could read my post as demonising Bracewell, but it is the selectors I am trying to aim at. If Bracewell plays, I hope he does well - just like I do with all the members of the current line-up. But it is fundamentally not right that he gets a shot when players like Ravindra, Sodhi, Patel, Chapman and Phillips (because he is Christian and weird and therefore also doesn’t fit the box) don’t get nearly the same opportunities.
You're really drawing a long bow here, as are Shady's examples (the fact that Hameed resembled a duck in a shooting alley in the Ashes and is a grinder compared to Crawley's fluency when going and the fact he obviously fits in with McCullum's ideals at the moment are important).
Damn, too much of a handful for Devon. Stand up please Kane.
I think the supposed preference of Bancroft and Harris is more west Australian than white Australian otherwise Usman would still be cooling his heels. The observation that Jason Sangha keeps getting gigs while others have to leave the state to get a game suggests the bias is more parochial than racial.
I'm definitely feeling that ton in my bones. Mathews ????
Khawaja was supposed to be a no. 3 and was competing against potential no.3s. Also there's not much in his play to immediately suggest why he should be a better opener than no.3. Don't think he was opening for Queensland either. I think Langer typecast players the way he wanted. We had Finch opening in tests just because he does it in ODIs, even though his First Class success had come at 5. I certainly thought Khawaja should have been opening at the time after his centuries as makeshift opener against SA and Pakistan.
Wouldn't quite go that far mate, he's still a superb ODI batsman.
