Matt79
Hall of Fame Member
If you disregarded past-service, reputations, and team stability and just picked the 11 players you thought would produce the most wickets and runs for the team in the 1st Test (ie. ignoring the rest of series). For the Aussie team, I'd bring in Jaques, Haddin, and Johnson AND Clark for a team of:
Hayden
Jaques
Ponting
Martyn
Hussey
Watson
Haddin
Warne
Lee
Clark
Johnson.
Obviously you'd never select this team, but for the sake of argument.
For England with Trescothick pulled out probably WILL play all the batsmen who have been in recent runs of form, but you'd surely include Monty over Giles. Harmison is a gamble, he looks dodgy, but he may click (and probably needs to if England are to win) and run through the Aussies.
Hayden
Jaques
Ponting
Martyn
Hussey
Watson
Haddin
Warne
Lee
Clark
Johnson.
Obviously you'd never select this team, but for the sake of argument.
For England with Trescothick pulled out probably WILL play all the batsmen who have been in recent runs of form, but you'd surely include Monty over Giles. Harmison is a gamble, he looks dodgy, but he may click (and probably needs to if England are to win) and run through the Aussies.