The Ashes, First Test Australia v England @ The Gabba 8-12 December

[Around the Wicket]

Rogers was Warners only good partner, they should just go a bolter like Tim Ward who averages 50 after 5 shield games, put him in while he has good stats, whats the worst that can happen? Fail? Same as the rest of the journeyman there giving a go.

 

[SSwans2011]

Khawaja with his talent has had a shithouse career, his attitude sucks and massively underachieved.

How does his attitude suck? Because he believes in his approach and technique? Because he likes to have fun playing cricket?

What a shit campaigner.

 

[Whiskers]

If he fails in the first 4 innings and still gets a 3rd test i will lose my mind.

He will get a 3rd but my prediction is he will get a 50 2nd innings in Adelaide to keep his spot for the whole series.
Our opening options are thin.

 

[Grand Uncle Horace]

A list of players I would have open over Harris, off the top of my head:

Khawaja, Maddinson, Burns, Bancroft, Renshaw, Street, Hunt, Head, Street, Smarsh, D Hughes

Some controversial picks there, but I'm dead serious about all of them.

Renshaw and D Hughes from that list.

 

[FRUMPY]

Harris has been given ample chances and hasn't delivered. I want him to succeed, but it's clear he's not test standard.

i agree - although i dont agree in dropping a bloke after first test of a series if he was deemed good enough to be selected in the first place (which i didnt agree he should have been picked).

 

[DamoESP]

Amazed Khawaja isn't in the side. Really should have been given more run by CA over the years, always one of the first to be dropped and now it seems Langer has it in for him as well.

 

[Gethelred]

Yep.

Warner is half the player he was a few years back. He'd have carted that through backward point for 4, but he's not got the reaction time.

His proactivity might save him, and it might be a rust/form thing. But he's looking as though he's trying to remember how to play, as opposed to playing on instinct.

 

[Mofra]

Always weird seeing a clip of batsmen from the 80s, then contrasting that to the absolute tree that Warner bats with

 

[Kyptastic]

Yes dock them points for the who cares championship that will teach them

Hurt Australia in the last World Test Championship, they would have been in the Final if it wasn't for losing points due to over rates.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

How does his attitude suck? Because he believes in his approach and technique? Because he likes to have fun playing cricket?

What a sh*t campaigner.

Pretty woeful runner between wickets though. There are limitations to Khawaja he’s better than Harris but most are

 

[The Falcon Strike]

I respect Chappelli for what he has done in the development of cricket broadcasting in this country

But he makes ABC radio damn near unlistenable. Time for him to find a beer and rest up in the pavilion.

 

[Gethelred]

That entire over in the short part of the pitch.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Hurt Australia in the last World Test Championship, they would have been in the Final if it wasn't for losing points due to over rates.

Meh couldn’t care less about a one off match. Suspend them in the series that matters

 

[k31th]

strange to see Warner struggle to time them when they're just short of a good length... but he's still timing them well when they're full

 

[FRUMPY]

Always weird seeing a clip of batsmen from the 80s, then contrasting that to the absolute tree that Warner bats with

warners edge has more meat on it than the bats of the 80s

 

[Around the Wicket]

Amazed Khawaja isn't in the side. Really should have been given more run by CA over the years, always one of the first to be dropped and now it seems Langer has it in for him as well.

All he had to do to make the side was play as opener for QLD in the shield games and the spot was his, instead he stayed at #4.

 

[Gough]

Always weird seeing a clip of batsmen from the 80s, then contrasting that to the absolute tree that Warner bats with

Barry Richards with the GN that he scored 325 in a day with and one of Warner's GNs.

 

[Some Idiot]

Amazed Khawaja isn't in the side. Really should have been given more run by CA over the years, always one of the first to be dropped and now it seems Langer has it in for him as well.

Eh he was dropped when he was younger for not meeting fielding standards, and he got replaced by younger players now. He hasn't been that hard done by.

 

[SSwans2011]

Amazed Khawaja isn't in the side. Really should have been given more run by CA over the years, always one of the first to be dropped and now it seems Langer has it in for him as well.

He has the 5th highest average of any Australian to debut this decade, and 5th of any current Australian players. One of those in front of him is Patterson. He's also finished in the top 10 Test run scorers twice in the last 5 calendar years of Test cricket.

I've said it a bunch, but he should virtually be a lock for Test selection, and should have been for the last 5 years.

 

[Around the Wicket]

How does his attitude suck? Because he believes in his approach and technique? Because he likes to have fun playing cricket?

What a sh*t campaigner.

Have you seen Khawaja train? It reflects in his results.

 

[Golumless]

strange to see Warner struggle to time them when they're just short of a good length... but he's still timing them well when they're full

I'm hopeful it's just a lack of cricket, but there is certainly a level of "he looks near retirement" considering Wood is bowling around 150km.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Is golden balls Stokes bowling this series??

 

[Woody15]

As of 15/1/21, Warner and Harris partnership average :

7 innings - 50 runs @ 7.14

Who are Australia's best opening partnership since Justin Langer and Matthew Hayden? | Sporting News Australia

There wouldn't be much argument that Australia's greatest-ever opening duo is Justin Langer and Matthew Hayden - but how have we fared since the former's retirement in 2007?

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[k31th]

I'm hopeful it's just a lack of cricket, but there is certainly a level of "he looks near retirement" considering Wood is bowling around 150km.

Yeah, I'm hopeful it's just a lack of red-ball cricket and he'll come good.

 

[MC Bad Genius]

Would like to know who he beats. That would be an interesting list.

Not sure if anyone has replied to this, but he's not in particularly illustrious company:

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Average	100	50	0
Saleem Elahi (PAK)	1995-2003	11	20	1	286	72	15.05	0	1	6
MH Dekker (ZIM)	1993-1996	14	22	1	333	68*	15.85	0	2	4
Hannan Sarkar (BAN)	2002-2004	17	32	0	661	76	20.65	0	5	5
TE Bailey (ENG)	1954-1959	14	23	0	484	80	21.04	0	1	3
AC Bannerman (AUS)	1880-1893	26	46	1	965	94	21.44	0	6	3
S Abid Ali (INDIA)	1968-1971	11	21	0	453	81	21.57	0	3	1
LJ Tancred (SA)	1902-1912	13	24	1	497	97	21.6	0	2	5
B Wood (ENG)	1972-1978	12	21	0	454	90	21.61	0	2	1
Javed Omar (BAN)	2001-2007	40	78	2	1678	119	22.07	1	8	5
TR Gripper (ZIM)	1999-2004	19	35	1	761	112	22.38	1	5	5
MS Harris (AUS)	2018-2021	11	20	1	431	79	22.68	0	2	0
V Sibanda (ZIM)	2003-2014	13	25	0	569	93	22.76	0	2	2
BA Pocock (NZ)	1993-1997	15	29	0	665	85	22.93	0	6	4