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[kangas biggest fan]

S. Waugh (C)
A. Gilchrist (wk) (vc)
M. Waugh
G. McGrath
S. Warne
C. Miller
J. Gillespe
M. Slater
J. Langer
M. Hayden
R. Ponting
12 man M. Elliott
13 man D. Martyn
14 man B. Lee
15 man D. Fleming
please tell me if you think theres something wrong!

 

[BUBBALOUIS]

Very good Kanga only change i would make is Brett Lee starting eleven, Gillespie in the squad

 

[ptw]

for the Poms or Indians ?

include Lehmann for India...drop Langer

ptw

 

[kangas biggest fan]

gotta have langer best no 3 not martyn

 

[NICK THE PIE MAN]

agreed Kangas biggest fan.
Langer's spot is safe for the meanwhile.

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[Darky]

Lehmann and Katich instead of Martyn and Elliott (I'm presuming this is for India)

 

[Dipper]

Originally posted by ptw:

include Lehmann for India...drop Langer
ptw

I don't understand why a lot of u Aussies bag Langer so much,in one of the papers over here they had an article about how quickly the Aussie team scores its runs & Langer was 2nd quickest scorer behind Gilly & I believe(correct me if I'm wrong) he also scored the 2nd highest amount of Test runs last year in the Aussie team-you'd be mad to drop him for Lehman,Martyn or any of the others.

 

[WCE2000]

At the moment getting in the Aussie team is all about chances.

Whenever they give someone a rest, the replacement scores a 50 or a 100 or takes 5 wickets. The selectors don't know what to do.

Damien Martyn, is technically, the best batter in Australia. But why would the selectors pick him as a regular in the test team. They've won 15 in a row, been considered the best team in the world for 6 years now, why change a winning formula.

For Instance, if the aussie side was struggling during the mid 90's and they needed to try something. Damien Martyn wouldve got the nod for sure. And i would back him anyday to score 6 or 7 thousand test runs if given the chance.

Justin Langer was just lucky hes playing in a side winning 15 in a row.
At the start of 99/2000 there were calls for him to be axed which was fair enough.
His stats for the 10 tests before that season were terrible. He had 487 runs at 28.64 with 1 century and 2 half-centurys. The only reason he was still in the team was because they were winning fairly regularly. If the aussies were losing, Martyn wouldve been in the team straightaway.

There is so much talent in Australia, its redicolous. I would reckon an Australian 3rd XI would go toe-to-toe with any test nation, with maybe the exception of South Africa.

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