I just want to know what the selectors are looking at.
When we go overseas, are they looking at players who may not be doing that well over here but might do well over there?
I look at some of our leg spinners and they aren't big turners of the ball but they can land them and bowl a wrong-un etc and they might not be the best on our pitches but I think they really should be playing them on turning wickets with the off spinner, instead we are obsessed with left arm finger spin and that's never produced a lot for us but we continue to fail to learn. Ahmed, who should have played every time we toured, was killing it in state cricket was overlooked. He should have played for Australia every time we played on turning wickets but he's never played.
Glenn Maxwell hits a test century in india, had some decent state performances and is a handy part time bowler and excellent fielder yet was dropped because the powers at be don't like him. Forget what they say, it's not about form they just do not like him. Steve Smith doesn't like him and Smith is a part of the Cricket Australia problem. A big part and that's why he isn't playing at the moment. Clearly the problems are still there. I'd be confident in suggesting Langer is a part of it too. I don't think you could get a gig in Australian Cricket if you weren't the way it is.
Players are picked on personality and not ability, selectors fail to learn, we select players based on how we feel about them personally and that's a sign that the inner sanctum of Australian cricket is f***ed.
This is professional international sport and we have people in charge who are selecting players based on their personal opinions of them and not their ability or form. To me it's a bunch of blokes who want to travel and play cricket with blokes they like and get paid well to do so. Something to think about here.
If this was an AFL club behaving like this there would be hell to pay. Fans and those backing the club wouldn't have it.
You won't see an internal review because they are too scared because most of them would get cleaned out.
Can we ever see a Cricket Australia where guys can get selected purely on cricket ability and form? I doubt it. Can we get a selection committee that is smart enough to identify players who will perform in different conditions? No sign of that happening.
Australian Cricket needs a change of attitude, culture and the inner sanctums breaking up so that it can get going again. It needs to fix things up at state and under age level so that batsmen can come in developed mentally and technically to perform in test cricket.
Fast bowling injury management needs to be recognised as a failure and something else needs to be tried.
The whole Glenn Maxwell not being selected is just one of the signs that there is a very big problem within Cricket Australia.
When we go overseas, are they looking at players who may not be doing that well over here but might do well over there?
I look at some of our leg spinners and they aren't big turners of the ball but they can land them and bowl a wrong-un etc and they might not be the best on our pitches but I think they really should be playing them on turning wickets with the off spinner, instead we are obsessed with left arm finger spin and that's never produced a lot for us but we continue to fail to learn. Ahmed, who should have played every time we toured, was killing it in state cricket was overlooked. He should have played for Australia every time we played on turning wickets but he's never played.
Glenn Maxwell hits a test century in india, had some decent state performances and is a handy part time bowler and excellent fielder yet was dropped because the powers at be don't like him. Forget what they say, it's not about form they just do not like him. Steve Smith doesn't like him and Smith is a part of the Cricket Australia problem. A big part and that's why he isn't playing at the moment. Clearly the problems are still there. I'd be confident in suggesting Langer is a part of it too. I don't think you could get a gig in Australian Cricket if you weren't the way it is.
Players are picked on personality and not ability, selectors fail to learn, we select players based on how we feel about them personally and that's a sign that the inner sanctum of Australian cricket is f***ed.
This is professional international sport and we have people in charge who are selecting players based on their personal opinions of them and not their ability or form. To me it's a bunch of blokes who want to travel and play cricket with blokes they like and get paid well to do so. Something to think about here.
If this was an AFL club behaving like this there would be hell to pay. Fans and those backing the club wouldn't have it.
You won't see an internal review because they are too scared because most of them would get cleaned out.
Can we ever see a Cricket Australia where guys can get selected purely on cricket ability and form? I doubt it. Can we get a selection committee that is smart enough to identify players who will perform in different conditions? No sign of that happening.
Australian Cricket needs a change of attitude, culture and the inner sanctums breaking up so that it can get going again. It needs to fix things up at state and under age level so that batsmen can come in developed mentally and technically to perform in test cricket.
Fast bowling injury management needs to be recognised as a failure and something else needs to be tried.
The whole Glenn Maxwell not being selected is just one of the signs that there is a very big problem within Cricket Australia.
