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You should look at 1987. Pretty sure Bob Simpson coached a World Cup win in India.

So attack Cooley on the basis of 1 session. I wonder if anyone spoke to the bowlers after that session. Ideal opportunity to get a turn around in performance with a bit of guidance. Perhaps we did a trade and swapped bowling coaches with Pakistan ay lunch on day 1.

Paine was called in when they had lost faith with other keepers they had tried. He was then thrown in the deep end to lead the team out of crisis. Since taking on the captaincy he has led a team that has turned around their fortunes. As captain he has averaged 24.65 with the bat, but the team...

Ian Healy is not his father-in-law. Alyssa Healy is Ian's niece.

Finch may be captain, but his form of late has not been encouraging. Warner has an injury to overcome. Should we only be going to the World Cup with 2 players capable of opening the batting?

Why couldn't he be used as an opener.

World cup squad should be picked on current form. That form has Wade as the in form opener in short form cricket. He should be picked as a batsman.

Noticed he managed a solid 2 runs from 28 balls in the shield today. Perhaps you need to wait until his performances show something consistent before you pump him as the next big thing.

When did South Africa become part of the sub continent.

Clearly India have taken advice on the DRS from Shane Watson.

Waugh was not out in 17.7% of his innings. As a comparison, Mike Hussey, his effective replacement had only 11.7% of not outs, despite also playing a significant role with tail enders. Waugh's batting was much more selfish than that exhibited by Hussey.

Additional factor is the wickets themselves, which are prepared to allow batsman more opportunity to force the scoring.

At least the methodology is explained and the shortcomings are acknowledged.

George Bailey seems to have continued on his great form in limited over cricket, to follow up a superb 2013. In both 50 over and 20 over cricket he just seems to get it done and also displays a great team first approach. The attached link has him statistically the best 50 over cricketer for...

Cricket is a very statistically based game. I have linked a top 50 done statistically by London Based journalist Tim Collins. Tim has also explained the statistical basis and makes Mitchell Johnson the top ranked bowler. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...keters-of-2013 __________________...

Well we went into 2003 and lost Warne (drugs) on the eve of the series. Ponting was the one who backed Symonds and got fantastic contributions from Bichel as well. Ponting led from the front and his individual performance in the final was just sensational. He was also unbeaten through both...

Ponting's record as captain at World Cups is pretty impressive.

As the top scorer in the match, surely he is entitled to some credit.

Plenty of unjust criticism of Clarke, but good to see some astute observers expressing support. Clarke provided good support through the most difficult batting conditions, when the ball was getting dark and soft. He was going at a better rate after the 30 over mark and the change of ball at...

and I was just agreeing with you.

perhaps you have not heard of MS Dhoni

Actually the average per match has remarkably little difference except for Nevill who has the smallest sample and Manou who is significantly lower. Nevill 4.63 Wade 4.00 Hartley 3.97 Manou 3.21 Ronchi 3.83 Paine 3.80 Stats are more difficult for keepers than any other discipline, but...

Impossible tp pick a side with so many options. Sangakarra and Gilchrist - how do you separate. Ponting has been a superb one day player. Kallis has no place as he has been a very slow scorer for most of his one day career and gets displaced for a bowling option by someone like Flintoff...

1. Who will be Australia’s leading run scorer? Shane Watson 2. Who will be Australia’s leading wicket taker? Ben Hilfenhaus 3. Who will be England’s leading run scorer? Paul Collingwood 4. Who will be England’s leading wicket taker? Graeme Swann 5. Who will win the series? (put draw if you...

Watson would be replaced by a top 6 specialist batsman.

I am not suggesting Butterworth deserves a spot based on one game, but McDonald has done his chances no good in this game. If either gets a call up it will be as a bowling all rounder and McDonald has NO POINTS for his bowling this season.

I know it is only one game buy mid way through the last day in this match McDonald - work complete Batting 0 and 2 Bowling 0/63 from 17 and 1/52 from 15 and supposedly an economical bowler. Butterworth - not yet complete Batting 0 and 39 Bowling 4/36 from 19.4 and 4/23 from 12...

He had a setback last year with, (I believe) some personal issues that affected his family. He does have talent and scored a century in the Shield final won by Tassie about 3 seasons back.

Governor I can't see how you can include White as an opening bat with Watson. You do need someone to build an innings at test level and not a kamikaze duo. White has not done enough to be in the top 6 batsmen. Wade is behind Paine and it is why he moved to Victoria to get first class games...