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Australia Test squad - 2015
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i'll take that as a comment
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Quoted for truth.
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After initial frustration of LP1's making up of stats I've now come to quite enjoy it. It's like watching someone play out their fantasy and then pass it off as fact.
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I guess it's good to know a certain poster will always post rubbish so you can reliably skip over the content
It's pretty easy these days to find out a stat in 5 seconds. It's like the blokes who come down to a cricket club talking about how many runs/wickets they have gotten recently, one quick trip to resultsvault is all you need to verify.
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Hey guys, Ashes gone. Congratulations England, Anderson owns Aussies. Bow Down
How'd the world cup go ?
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Agree on Voges, S.Marsh has to come in.Adam Voges needs to go, he is no Chris Rogers,
Stop hurting my feelings
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How? We only need to win 1 of the last 2, and Anderson won't be there for at least 1 of them.
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The cupboard is as bare as anything if we are relying on S.Marsh to do anything more than average 35.
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When he scores he scores big, he will either score a hundred or a 0, unlike the walking wicket Voges who feasts on minnow attack
What does your mate Kohli think of Bancroft?
When was the last time India played a five test series? Has it been so long that you have forgotten how to count?
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Smarsh for Voges and batting at 4 ahead of Clarke.
Siddle for Starc.
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Siddle for Starc.
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Why not make the side worse by bringing in the pedestrian medium pace of Siddle. If ever there was a bowler you would want for batting practice and for building a batsman's confidence it would have to be this bloke.
Another thing, Siddle shouldn't bat higher than Hazelwood or Lyon, would be the worst batsman in the squad and that includes Voges.
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Siddle should be picked for numerous reasons, including:
- He's a bowler who's able to build pressure through line and length bowling (watch how he would always bowl to Kevin Pietersen, he would bore him into playing a rash shot). We have no bowler who's able to do that consistently at the moment.
- A bowler building pressure at one end will make Johnson and Hazlewood (or Johnson and Starc if they choose to drop Hazlewood, which would be the wrong call in my opinion) far more effective bowlers. It doesn't take Einstein to realise that Johnson was so effective in Australia and South AFrica over 2013/14 in major part because he had Siddle and Harris bowling tight at the other end.
- It gives Clarke an option if runs start leaking - since Watson isn't playing he doesn't have a bowler who can do that.
- He took 8 wickets last time he played a test at Trent Bridge, including 5 in the first innings.
- He's the most experienced bowler in English conditions, not only because this is his third tour here, but because he's played a number of county games in the last couple of years - including for Nottingham, who play their home games at Trent Bridge.
- He's apparently got his pace back and has been the hardest bowler to face in the nets (although given the way they talk about out of form batsmen's net form take that with a pinch of salt).
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I don't think we need to change the bowling. Complete LOL at Greg Baum suggesting dropping hazlewood. Leading series wicket taker, averaging 20 so far in his young career. Stupidity.
I'm not too familiar with siddles form but if he comes in it can only be for starc who's been up and down this series but his ups haven't been overly high anyway.
Voges has to make way for marsh but I'm not confident it'll change much. Definite consideration for Marsh to bat 3 or 4.
I'm not too familiar with siddles form but if he comes in it can only be for starc who's been up and down this series but his ups haven't been overly high anyway.
Voges has to make way for marsh but I'm not confident it'll change much. Definite consideration for Marsh to bat 3 or 4.
Will changing the side make much difference? Doubt it, but having written that, they'll make at least one change. Best hope is that TB isn't too bowler friendly.
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Does that matter, our bats with the except of the top 3 haven't really looked threatening.
We need some consistency in our bowling and that means losing Starc. I never liked the look of the side with both left armers in it as they are both prone to loose bowling at time. The loss of Harris was a massive blow to the side as he could keep it tight which worked well for Johnson charge in and be a bit erratic, in the same manner that Brett Lee could do when he had Warne & McGrath in the same side.
If we get a similar pitch I'd bring in Siddle, the conditions would also suit his bowling much more with the sideways movement.
I get it another Victorian who thinks its more important to have a token Victorian in the Australian team rather than picking a side that has fighting chance.
- No, he doesn't build-up pressure he bowls somewhere around 125 - 130 km/h and leaks runs by just drifting his medium pacers onto the right-handers legs which are incredibly easy put aways for even the most average batsman.
- Even Mitch Marsh filling the all-rounders spot is bowling over 135 km/h; that is not playing as a specialist bowler. I thought Lehnman was on record of saying the last time that Siddle was dropped that it was unacceptable for strike bowlers to bowl at sub 130km/h?
- Hazelwoold won't get dropped and nor should he, he has been the pick of the Australian bowlers, and is far superior to the pedestrian Siddle everyday of the week.
- Last time I checked Pieterson isn't playing.
- What style of bowler would you describe Siddle as, doesn't swing it, can't bowl an away swinger with that arm action, so effectively he is a slow in-swinging bowler to the right-hander with a change up of a straight ball.
- The last 5 tests Siddle played he picked up 9 wickets, now given that anyone will pick up a wicket if they are bowled long enough, what is required is to be more effective than the bowlers from the side you are playing against. You know dismissing the opposition for scores lower than what your batsmen compile. Even the dismissal of Cook in the last Test counts as a wicket to Lyon, didn't have a lot of involvement in the dismissal though.
- You can call what Siddle has is experience, I think he has been involved in one of darkest periods of Australian cricket when the side was in no small part uncompetitive because a bloke that is reputed to be a strike bowler is about as average as there is going around.
- How did Siddle even get included in the Ashes squad, sometimes the Australian selectors should do the brave thing and pick a smoky when the alternative is average. Possibly, someone like Joel Paris who has shown he can really hoop the ball in helpful conditions would have been a good selection.
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