Australia A side vs NZ

[Mego Red]

David Warner
Nick Maddison
Usman Khawaja
Chris Lynn
George Bailey (c)
Mitchell Marsh/James Faulkner
Matthew Wade
Stephen O'Keefe
Ben Cutting
Pat Cummins
James Pattinson

12th man Hazlewood

 

[Mego Red]

Ugh - merge these, mods. No idea why it posted twice.

Bloody posting on a iPhone, probably ...

 

[Carbine Chaos]

David Warner
Simon Katich (c)
Usman Khawaja
Callum Ferguson
Peter Forrest
Dan Christian
Matthew Wade (+)
Steve O'Keefe
Ben Cutting
James Pattinson
Peter George

12th - Mitch Marsh



Reward good form in the Shield for blokes like Forrest, Christian and George. Left out Lynn because he's injured ATM so no form behind him, and Cummins should just be playing for NSW.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Simon Katich?? Is that a gee up??

 

[CAS79]

David Warner
Nick Maddison
Usman Khawaja
Chris Lynn
George Bailey (c)
Mitchell Marsh/James Faulkner
Matthew Wade
Stephen O'Keefe
Ben Cutting
Pat Cummins
James Pattinson

12th man Hazlewood

George Bailey will be very lucky to captain this team right now. Calling an umpire a cheating cu** amid a petulant two minute spray in which he refused to move away is not going to down to well with the cricket authorities.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Simon Katich?? Is that a gee up??

Imagine the hype and pressure on the actual team if he made the A team.

Would be very interesting!

 

[Hellgood]

Is that the actual team?

 

[Bomber Bears]

Bailey is in poor form as well

Warner
Khawaja
Klinger


Christian
Wade
O'Keefe
Cutting
Pattinson
George

Hazlewood should just concentrate on Shield (although he's bowling well), cant think of deserving middle order players at present (Forrest is a state cricketer, no more, Lynn hasnt been fit etc. Seems early to pump Coopers tyres after one good match. Maybe Cooper and Rohrer?

 

[Bucking Beads]

I'd be trying to get Maxwell into the side.

Warner
Maddinson
Khawaja
Forrest
Maxwell
Wade
Marsh
Faulkner
Cutting
Pattinson
Beer


George

 

[dan warna]

From Victoria I'd like to see

Maxwell
Wade
Herrick
Pattinson

be included.

I would like to see Khawaja (if he's not in the test side) and O'keefe in there as well.

Unlikely to be 4 vics but that this is an opinion piece after all

 

[year of the roo]

No to Maxwell, Katich and Bailey.

Warner
Maddinson
Khawaja
Ferguson
White (c)
Wade
Faulkner
M. Marsh
O'Keefe
Cutting
Pattinson

George/Hazlewood

 

[Phone]

As Shipperd says it all depends on how you're approaching the team.

For me I'm trying to get a good balance of youth, next in line, form and performance over previous seasons. So this has created a bit of a strange team which def won't happen and I'm not too over the moon with. I'm not hot on picking people based just on the games this season - so no Herrick, Cooper etc - but Cutting who has also performed in previous seasons gets in. The form thing means no Ferguson and Finch. But in reality one of them will be in. I certainly don't want a token captain like White or Bailey picked but I expect it.

Warner
Maddinson (not 100% happy here. Maddinson's been a bit iffy so far this season, but there does seem little point picking Rogers.)
Forrest
Voges
Rohrer (this could go in any number of directions. I've gone Rohrer 'cause i'm bias and because i've ruled out so many people i'm left with few options)
Marsh (not 100% cool here. But Moz is the only other seaming all-rounder option imo. Moz has been in better form with the bat but Marsh obv with the ball. not in favour of spinner all-rounder so no maxwell or smith and so on)
Wade
SOK (the captain i guess)
Cutting
Pattinson
Bollinger

So yeah a strange old team. Pretty hard to construct the middle order. Lynn's injury is very annoying. If he had one good knock he'd be in there, as it is I can't pick him. I don't like Voges much at all but he is one of the few form middle order batsmen and has got previous performance on his side. 6 down is pretty easy really.

Now of course the obvious exclusion is Usman. The guys like Watson, Clarke etc aren't playing in the Shield matches straight after the SA tour, which is when this match takes place, so I haven't considered the bench players either (Usman, Beer, Copeland, Cummins. 3 of them might play the next test anyway) but they might be in consideration.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

No to Maxwell, Katich and Bailey.

Warner
Maddinson
Khawaja
Ferguson
White (c)
Wade
Faulkner
M. Marsh
O'Keefe
Cutting
Pattinson

George/Hazlewood

Maxwell is going to be given a chance at some point. He's too handy not to be.

Marsh at 8 is a good choice. He's bowling first or second change for WA pretty nicely but his batting since returning from SA has been abysmal. Faulkner is not in much form in first class cricket with either bat or ball is he?

Ferguson is pretty gash so far in first class cricket this year.

 

[Phone]

Faulkner is not in much form in first class cricket with either bat or ball is he?

Nah not really.

Shield Batting

Shield Bowling

can't believe I've picked Voges. feel so dirty ffs. would love to get Magoffin in there tbh

 

[Cousin Jed]

Voges?

Voges?

I mean just......Voges?

 

[Phone]

I know! This must be how Hilditch felt when he decided he would never again pick a team based on the shitty criteria that I forced myself to obey. ****ing get cooper in there. **** off voges you dick

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Nah not really.

Shield Batting

Shield Bowling

can't believe I've picked Voges. feel so dirty ffs. would love to get Magoffin in there tbh

Can't think of any Warriors fans who would pick him for anything but a one dayer so you should feel tainted.

 

[Phone]

really though what's the deal with the complete lack of middle order options. (go ahead and pick a team based on the shitty criteria. It's impossible! I almost considered North. North!)

no wonder white's gonna get picked. voges ffs

 

[Phone]

btw that round of the shield sure is gonna be weak. No Aus players, Aus A players missing, everyone's dealing with injures.

Tue Nov 22 - Fri Nov 25
Sheffield Shield
Victoria v Tasmania
Melbourne Cricket Ground

Thu Nov 24 - Sun Nov 27
Australia A v New Zealanders
Allan Border Field, Brisbane

Fri Nov 25 - Mon Nov 28
Sheffield Shield
New South Wales v Western Australia
Sydney Cricket Ground

Fri Nov 25 - Mon Nov 28
Sheffield Shield
South Australia v Queensland

ftr

 

[The Speaker]

I know! This must be how Hilditch felt when he decided he would never again pick a team based on the shitty criteria that I forced myself to obey. ****ing get cooper in there. **** off voges you dick

No way.

Dutchman 4 lyf.

 

[Hellgood]

I get frustrated at Voges too and his dismissal today sounded typical, but the guy cops a lot of shit. He'd be one of the best domestic cricketers in the world and has a pretty damn good career playing for WA, county cricket (played an amazing innings to win Nottinghamshire the title), a handful of T20 games, a few ODI's (made a run a ball 50 in his last one) and almost a test career (was out of him and Symonds when Martyn quit suddenly in the Ashes in 2006/07). I know he has underachieved given some his performances, but I don't think there is any need to mock his career.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

I get frustrated at Voges too and his dismissal today sounded typical, but the guy cops a lot of shit. He'd be one of the best domestic cricketers in the world and has a pretty damn good career playing for WA, county cricket (played an amazing innings to win Nottinghamshire the title), a handful of T20 games, a few ODI's (made a run a ball 50 in his last one) and almost a test career (was out of him and Symonds when Martyn quit suddenly in the Ashes in 2006/07). I know he has underachieved given some his performances, but I don't think there is any need to mock his career.

Voges suffers from being one of those players that makes batting look like a walk in the park. He always looks good. It's what makes most people want to hit him over the head with something heavy as he looks like he could have done anything, but he is one of the kings of brain farts.

I saw that ton for Notts on Sky and it was a hell of a knock. Tough day for batting and he was just strolling it.

 

[BarneyBent]

Warner
Khawaja
Ferguson
White (c)
Smith
Marsh/Henriques (take your pick)
Wade (Nevill if Wade is in the Test team)
SOK
Cutting
Pattinson
Cummins

Can't believe how many people are ignoring Steve Smith. Sure, he may not be ready for Test cricket, but whatever your opinion of him, he's dominated Shield, so the Australia A squad is tailor made for testing him.

Not sure about Ferguson at 3, but it will have to do. I want to see Khawaja open, and Maddinson isn't there yet.

For the allrounders, it depends on conditions. Both are better bowlers than batsmen, but Henriques has been in good form with the bat, while Marsh has been in poor form with the bat but magnificent form with the ball. On a green top, go Henriques, as we'll need the batting depth, not the bowling depth. On a flat track, Marsh may be the way to go.

 

[Phone]

well if it's a green deck you could easily drop SOK and play both of them. particularly given Marsh's bowling form. I wanted to include Moz in there but it's pretty hard and his bowling form probably hasn't been good enough (has been NSW's best seamer I suppose but that's another story....). In any case he's needed to captain NSW given I've taken Rohrer and SOK and Kat might be suspended!


Didn't really consider Smith. I dunno know. Now that I've gone ahead and done it I'm kinda excited to see how Voges, Forrest and Rohrer would go so Smith missed out. In reality I expect he'll be there, particularly if Usman isn't considered, but I wanted to see some other people. (on the other hand, i ain't in a rush to see white again and **** ferguson needs to stop having anything handed to him)

 

[Bucking Beads]

Moises is on the verge I reckon, if he has the break out year he needs it will be great. Can't really play him in Marsh in the same team though IMO.