Changes for 3rd Test v India

[Moist Biscuit]

M.Renshaw
D.Warner
U.Khawaja (**** all of you non believers)
S.Smith
S.Marsh
P.Handscomb
M.Wade
M.Starc
S.O'Keefe
J.Hazlewood
N.Lyon

12th man Mitch Marsh.

 

[Moist Biscuit]

Are you sure? Khawaja is not a class player. He's a flat track wonder. That's it. He also has an inability to play the ball for singles often enough and that is a cardinal sin on spinning pitches.

Excuse me If I don't take your posts seriously. All you do is bag out our players and our good players at that. Warners a star, get over it.

 

[Bradesmaen]

Excuse me If I don't take your posts seriously. All you do is bag out our players and our good players at that. Warners a star, get over it.

Warner wasn't mentioned. But he's also not a star, can't bat on non flat wickets

 

[PhatBoy]

And what about in total tests between teams of evenish skill? How many teams who won the toss go onto win?

I can't be bothered doing it but you'd probably have to look at the England team of 2012 or whenever it was, or the SA team who drew two series in a row over there prior to their 4-0 thrashing last time. They're the 3 best outfits to tour there in the last decade.

 

[PhatBoy]

Excuse me If I don't take your posts seriously. All you do is bag out our players and our good players at that. Warners a star, get over it.

Warner is a star in Australia. When subcontinent players average mid 30s away from home Australian fans love nothing more than highlighting it and basically saying that the player is a star under false pretences. Warner isn't exempt from the same treatment just because he dominates every summer back here.

 

[Steinfreo]

Warner wasn't mentioned. But he's also not a star, can't bat on non flat wickets

Usmab had that gritty knock in Tassie or Adelaide. Which was a tricky wicket from memory. I agree if you bag out Usman for being a flat track bully you need to put warner in the exact same bloody basket.

 

[Louis Slungpue]

Thought as much.

Guess it can be ruled out that Nevill comes in for the next test, even if Wade should get a massive kick up the rear end.

I like Peter Handscomb at 5 without the gloves. No change to the keeping situation just get it in Wade's thick batting head that he needs to be a leader and in situations like today graft an innings, build a partnership and turn the strike around like he did good enough in the first innings with a 40.

Handscomb keeping lol

 

[Doss]

Are you sure? Khawaja is not a class player. He's a flat track wonder. That's it. He also has an inability to play the ball for singles often enough and that is a cardinal sin on spinning pitches.

You make cricket sound disarmingly easy.

Sometimes you have to back good players to improve. Mitch Marsh's record is so poor that the threshold for that has been crossed, I believe. Khawaja, not so, even allowing for his poor record on the sub-continent.

Just back him. We won't be worse than with having a non-contributing Marsh in the team.

If you don't want Khawaja team I'd rather we give Maxwell a go. Marsh has to go.

 

[MisterMarcus]

iirc the didn't even play Usman in the tour game?

Ussie's only game on tour was a warm up match where he was dismissed by an inanimate object....

 

[HBF]

Probably the only change that's worth making is the #6 position.

Mitch Marsh is being underused and is not Test-class anyway.

I think Khawaja is much more likely to bat sensibly than Maxwell, but he has serious issues against spin bowling. Tough call.

Being a leftie may help him UK, so i'd have him slightly ahead of Maxwell who is likely to play a dumb shot and get out.

 

[Bradesmaen]

You make cricket sound disarmingly easy.

Sometimes you have to back good players to improve. Mitch Marsh's record is so poor that the threshold for that has been crossed, I believe. Khawaja, not so, even allowing for his poor record on the sub-continent.

Just back him. We won't be worse than with having a non-contributing Marsh in the team.

If you don't want Khawaja team I'd rather we give Maxwell a go. Marsh has to go.

He's 30. Not 25. He got told to improve and he did slightly, but not enough to be more than a home player.

 

[Doss]

Well that settles that then.

 

[Hamingja]

If they have the capacity to change the squad, given that they took calculated (both players were in form) gambles on Renshaw and Handscomb, Lehmann would be worth a shot I reckon. If his dad has had any influence on his cricket you'd think he'd be a decent player of tweak.

Lehmann has struggled against spin in Australia, would be no different than Usman at test level.

Maxwell for Mitch Marsh for me in a shuffling the deck chairs on the titanic at #6 move.

 

[Moist Biscuit]

He's 30. Not 25. He got told to improve and he did slightly, but not enough to be more than a home player.

And Shaun Marsh is 34, if he hasn't shown consistenncy throughout his career, why are we bothering with him? Usman is 30, plenty of cricket ahead of him. The way you speak about cricket, it's as though it's bloody easy to be an international cricketer.

 

[PhatBoy]

Lehmann has struggled against spin in Australia, would be no different than Usman at test level.

Maxwell for Mitch Marsh for me in a shuffling the deck chairs on the titanic at #6 move.

Fair enough, all I've seen of him is his figures, not how he's achieved them.

 

[Kram]

Usman for mine will probably be just swapping in another walking wicket, Maxwell hasn't deserved a spot really either but would prefer to give him a go still more chance of succeeding over there. Khawaja can't bowl and is a liability in the field. Also prefer Smith left at 3.

 

[PhatBoy]

And Shaun Marsh is 34, if he hasn't shown consistenncy throughout his career, why are we bothering with him? Usman is 30, plenty of cricket ahead of him. The way you speak about cricket, it's as though it's bloody easy to be an international cricketer.

In his last 11 tests he has made a score of at least 49 in 8 of them.

Lack of consistency = f***ing myth

 

[Moist Biscuit]

In his last 11 tests he has made a score of at least 49 in 8 of them.

Lack of consistency = f***ing myth

And an average of 22 from 16 innings against India is consistent is it? I wouldn't have thought so.

 

[Doss]

Sean Marsh shouldn't be in the dropping discussion, IMO.

 

[Kram]

And an average of 22 from 16 innings against India is consistent is it? I wouldn't have thought so.

About half of those games in that average were from back in 2012 when he was woefully out of form

 

[PhatBoy]

And an average of 22 from 16 innings against India is consistent is it? I wouldn't have thought so.

No you're right. Because he failed against them two and a half years ago and earlier, he should be dropped on the back of his pointless 66 in the first innings of a game where no one broke 90 and no team reached 300.

Begging to be dropped on the basis of the time machine the players use before each match.

 

[bird_man]

Either Maxwell, Agar, Khawaja or the white plastic chair for Mitch Marsh

 

[JG22]

Forget Maxwells bowling because they won't use it, showed that in the summer not giving him an over.

 

[bird_man]

Forget Maxwells bowling because they won't use it, showed that in the summer not giving him an over.

Considering Marsh has bowled about 4 overs I don't think it matters.

Although I do think he'll throw the arm over for a few

 

[LFC2010]

Wade out Nevill in.