corporal
18 Sep 2006, 23:23
Interesting now that Border is back selecting that Hayden has been reinstated in the one day squad despite his age and lack of effectiveness in international one day cricket.
To Hayden's credit he has reinvented himself in test cricket as a opener who grinds out the opposition before opening up a bit more later in his innings as opposed to the brute batsmen he used to earlier in his career (admittly he was often batting against pretty poor bowling back then).
But to bring him back into the one day squad when we have exciting young talent who should be getting blooded before the world cup is simply stupid and I can only put it down to some kind of selectors bia's or sentiment (kind of like Martyn getting recalled although that probably had a lot to do with Pointing getting positions for the "boys")
Really why waste games letting Hayden grind in the top order when we could be getting more top order experience into Jacques, Cosgrove, Watson, Haddin etc.. and begin settling on a good combination for the WC (that hopefully doesn't include Katich but that another rant altogether!)
It really makes you wonder sometimes what criteria the selectors use to pick the team and if bia's and outside influences do have much of a role to play in some of these baffling selections.
To Hayden's credit he has reinvented himself in test cricket as a opener who grinds out the opposition before opening up a bit more later in his innings as opposed to the brute batsmen he used to earlier in his career (admittly he was often batting against pretty poor bowling back then).
But to bring him back into the one day squad when we have exciting young talent who should be getting blooded before the world cup is simply stupid and I can only put it down to some kind of selectors bia's or sentiment (kind of like Martyn getting recalled although that probably had a lot to do with Pointing getting positions for the "boys")
Really why waste games letting Hayden grind in the top order when we could be getting more top order experience into Jacques, Cosgrove, Watson, Haddin etc.. and begin settling on a good combination for the WC (that hopefully doesn't include Katich but that another rant altogether!)
It really makes you wonder sometimes what criteria the selectors use to pick the team and if bia's and outside influences do have much of a role to play in some of these baffling selections.