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Could really make do with 15 contracts plus pay as you play for the rest. Basically only 4 red ball bats plus Green and Marsh in a 23 man squad.

Saw the title and thought it would be a bit harsh to call anyway that has played 100 tests mediocre. Bairstow and Sharma both fair calls though. India and England play some amount of tests. Pujara better than mediocre obviously but surprised he has played over 100 tests already.

Pretty crazy not taking a back up keeper in the days of concussion subs. I suppose we will keep doing it until we get burned.

He didn't get picked because he is not good enough but they are hardly going to say, "yeah we had a chat with Patty, Mitch and Haze and they all think Bancroft is a s**t bloke and a troublemaker and so we decided not to pick him" :drunk:

Nevermind the one dayers are after the big bash this year

Unreal how much people are losing their s**t over the non selection of a journeyman that has averaged 50 for a season and a half. Get Beau Webster into the test team. Domestic record this year derp derp.

Smith opening is wild to me but if he genuinely wants to do it, then great. All the opener options suck which is why Warner has been able to limp on for years. Green is a test class player.

Ok Warner is not the tallest guy and it hit him on the back leg but that was surely way over

Someone that can dine out on one innings more than the Stoin

I just assumed he was retiring full stop after the Sydney test tbh. Did he think he was going to skip the white ball matches in the summer, take the coin from the middle east, then waltz back into the one day team for the major tournaments? Way more viable options to open in white ball cricket...

The post I was responding to said that no one complained about that, at that stage, as if to extend that to Carey today. Completely incomparable with the way the game has evolved. Carey's batting over the last 12 months is not good enough for modern cricket.

Sure but Carey was averaging 23 for the year, which is the issue. Can't compare that to Rod Marsh 40 years ago.

Too bad for modern keepers that Adam Gilchrist existed and the game progressed

He is stuck in there with Mel McLaughlin. He may not want to.

If Travis Head put on 30kg he would be a dead ringer for Boonie

The brief moment that channel 10 had the rights for the big bash was the best. Then channel 7 and fox have split the channel 10 commentators between the two and added filler to make up two teams instead of one.

It used to be just a Tassie thing where you would have players like Doolan and Silk average 50 one year, 20 the next. Now it is every single batsman in the shield :(

Lyon was a handy tail ender when he started out and was used as a nightwatchman. Once he secured his spot as a bowler he just didn't GAF and just started swinging at everything like a genuine tailender from the pre Steve Waugh captaincy era.

There isn't a lot of fresh blood out there. Butchering the domestic 50 over competition 10+ years ago has now come home to roost. 22/23 Season Most Runs Hughes Philippe Doran Bancroft Jewell Most Wickets Rogers Tye Thornton Behrendorff Neser 21/22 Season Most Runs Renshaw Head Philippe...

Hope Smithy channelled Steve Waugh and told Stokes that he just dropped the moral ashes

Ultra edge is the dodgiest tech ever. They don't even match the vision and the sound up properly.

I honestly wouldn't have watched a game of union since Gregan, Latham, Mortlock etc retired

Things no one has said for over 10 years

I think Pat was just giving the Matildas a leg up. Everyone will watch that instead.

Cupboard is absolutely bare batting wise. It's the reason Warner now, and Finch in white ball cricket, was able to hold on for so long. All rounders and fast bowlers look ok. Should be able to cobble together a decent pace bowling attack. A lot rests on Murphy spin bowling wise.

And they think Fentanyl is dangerous s**t....

Last 6 Ashes series 13-0 in Australia 6-6 in England Not exactly vintage Australian sides either

Yes but the difference was the majority of those guys were young when they failed at test level, not 30+ years old.

Renshaw would be the one that I wouldn't completely write off given he started out so young. The issue with him is that he has dropped down the order domestically so at the moment wouldn't be a replacement opener for Warner.

And as above the only other players to score runs in the shield are Bancroft and Handscomb. Deck chairs on the titanic stuff.