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I'm fine with the selectors picking some older players in Klinger, Paine and obviously Finch. They effectively substitute for Smith, Warner and Wade in terms of leadership and experience. Picking only youth in this series would be enormously disrespectful to Sri Lanka I think. Pick the squad to win the series, not develop for the next world cup - it's Australia, not Australia A. When the next Australian T20I series come up that doesn't stupidly clash with an OS Test series they can pick and choose the odd kid to slot in and see how they go.
Does this run at the same time as Sheffield Shield? If it does I'd rather see Richardson play Shield than this crap.
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Think it prevents him playing 1 Shield game.
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Thank god they didn't pick pooland again looks like his international days are done thank *
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I was dreading his selection again
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I can only imagine that the selectors lost Dunks phone number. That's a real head scratcher for me.
Also, Stoinis obviously didn't have a great BBL, but I'm surprised the ODI in NZ didn't get him picked in this squad.
Also, Stoinis obviously didn't have a great BBL, but I'm surprised the ODI in NZ didn't get him picked in this squad.
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Was probably a choice between Faulkner and Stoinis
No Shield games on during this series so no effect
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Happy with the squad. Pleased to see guys who are good in the format and had good BBL campaigns being picked. Is probably a bit light on for spin though with only Zampa plus Turner as an all rounder. I'd expect Sri Lanka to go in with at least a couple of spin options. Meanwhile we have Agar, Swepson, Lyon and O'Keefe all off to India.
For another nothing 3 match series I'd expect everyone to play at least once. I get picking Hogg/Hodge for squad experience in a tournament, but you don't pick an uncapped 36 year old for the sake of it. Klinger plays. Paine is a great selection. Would have him in any format over Wade.
For another nothing 3 match series I'd expect everyone to play at least once. I get picking Hogg/Hodge for squad experience in a tournament, but you don't pick an uncapped 36 year old for the sake of it. Klinger plays. Paine is a great selection. Would have him in any format over Wade.
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Would be classic CA.
Not the biggest Wade fan but he's a state captain and Paine doesn't even have a state contract atm
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The only bloke I think should have been picked was Laughlin. Tye lucky IMO as he has been down from his usual lofty standards
Also not sure what Cummins has done as a bowler to deserve selection. One of either him or Faulkner would have been enough IMO.
I'd personally prefer Cummins to be playing some red ball cricket.
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Finch
Klinger
Lynn
Henriques
Head
Turner
Paine
Faulkner
Cummins
Zampa
Tye
though I'd prefer to be bowler heavy and take out turner for stanlake
Also not sure what Cummins has done as a bowler to deserve selection. One of either him or Faulkner would have been enough IMO.
I'd personally prefer Cummins to be playing some red ball cricket.
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Finch
Klinger
Lynn
Henriques
Head
Turner
Paine
Faulkner
Cummins
Zampa
Tye
though I'd prefer to be bowler heavy and take out turner for stanlake
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Did he even play BBL?
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Bizarre, media pressure has contributed to the decision.
He scored more runs at a better click than the others, has to be in the side.
Well Dunk isn't any good against international bowlers.
3 T20s to reward form isn't gonna hurt though.
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3 T20's to reward someone else does the same thing.
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He did ok against Watson & Braithwate, Badree and Broad, all of whom are or have recently been international bowlers.
And most of whom aren't even playing regular international cricket for a reason.
Can only think they overlooked Dunk due to seeing him as a keeper, which I'd agree with. His keeping is terrible. As a batsman though he's still well within the frame if not good enough to get selected.
Would've thought that Abbott was a sure thing. Richardson the obvious one we'd take out but he's only going to play one game anyway IMO for experience.
Whiteman unlucky due to injury. He's the future. Tim Paine may do alright at the top of the order but can't see him playing there with Klinger and Finch in the team. No real other options without Whiteman available.
Good squad overall though considering what we had available to us...
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Would've thought that Abbott was a sure thing. Richardson the obvious one we'd take out but he's only going to play one game anyway IMO for experience.
Whiteman unlucky due to injury. He's the future. Tim Paine may do alright at the top of the order but can't see him playing there with Klinger and Finch in the team. No real other options without Whiteman available.
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And Andrew Tye is good against international batsman.
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I wouldn't have selected Tye.
But seriously the explanation is never a conspiracy theory about "media pressure" or "state bias" or "so and so's father is connected".
Most of the times they don't pick a bloke because they don't rate him and/or they rate the other guy more.
BBL form especially should be considered pretty irrelevant because the chasm between BBL and international cricket is massive as proven everytime we've selected guys into the international team based on BBL form.
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