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Road to the 2015 Ashes in England

Burgey

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Did my second tour of Lord's today. Magical place. Was great to show the twiglets through, and it's fair to say Burgeinho is more than keen to play there one day. Deadest get goosebumps just seeing the Ashes.
 

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weldone

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Brettig sounds confident when he says that Australia will prefer Watson's experience over Marsh' form.
 
harsh.ag

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They have to. With both Mitches in the side, they hardly need another expensive wicket taker. Watson will do a better job (as much as it pains me to say this). Had Harris been there, it would have been feasible.
 
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We already won the world cup, but if voges was in we could have super-win it, which is better than regularly winning it.
 
Gnske

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Spark said:
Ashes 2015: 'I'm done then, am I?' Adam Voges thought his Australian career was over

Entirely unrelated to anything Ashes-wise, but anyone else reckon an (in-form) Voges would have actually been a really good addition to the Aus WC side?
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Of course, I can't even really recall why he was dumped apart from not cashing in at a strike rate of 200 million like his teammates during Rohit's series.

I guess Boof and co. thought Bailey and Clarke could have done the stabilizing role just fine.
 
Prince EWS

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Yeah Voges and Bailey were competing for the same spot for a little bit, and Bailey entered that insane purple patch right at the time Voges seemed to be batting with a needle. It wasn't so much just a matter of not cashing in in India as it was looking completely and utterly **** on some of the friendliest wickets of all time. I always felt Voges was the better OD player but even I at that point couldn't have justified picking him over Bailey.

By the time the WC actually rolled around there was a case for picking him ahead of Bailey as Bailey's form has dropped off quite a bit, but Voges hadn't played international cricket in ages at that point so it would have been a bit of a last minute knee-jerk.

He was sort of unlucky, but whenever he failed in ODIs it did look really bad.
 
jan

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duffer said:
Just one more sleep to go! Oh my god this is gonna be good.
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It is! Right now my son and I are making a long list of (mostly edible) things we need to buy today so that we can stay home the whole day tomorrow watching cricket, good times :)
 
TheJediBrah

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To be fair I think it's highly debatable whether Australia's best Test XI includes Nathan Lyon, or a spinner at all.

As popular as Lyon is, he's been average at best. And while it's better to have stuck with him for a while than it was in the immediate post-Warne era of picking a different spinner each game, The selectors need to be wary of going to far in the other direction and continually selecting an average off-spin bowler if you've got better fast bowlers that aren't playing.

Voges and Clarke could probably do almost as good a job as bowlers than Lyon anyway tbh
 
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