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England right back on their heels with Australia at 0/113 although they were still 218 ahead. Suddenly Stokes takes 3/20 and a brilliant catch and the test could be over by stumps. England need to take 6 wickets in the last session and with the form of Clarke and Voges that could very well happen. If not by stumps then England should wrap it up by lunch tomorrow.
 

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And in the blink of an eye we capitulate again. Clarke won't last and we all know that.

Marsh was a terrible selection.

Smith as apparently our next captain gets out to a terrible and just stupid shot.
 

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And in the blink of an eye we capitulate again. Clarke won't last and we all know that.

Marsh was a terrible selection.

Smith as apparently our next captain gets out to a terrible and just stupid shot.
Meanwhile Joe Burns, who was in the Aussie side last summer, shares in a 239 run opening stand against India A. I really shake my head when they go back to guys like Sean Marsh. I guess the fact that Burns is only 26 years of age and not 32 like Marsh or 36 like Voges may have something to do with this selection policy.

Australian cricket needs fresh blood but it needs to be young blood, we cannot keep relying on 35 year old débutantes.

I have a horrible feeling that Nevill and Mitch Marsh will pay for this debacle and that Haddin and Watson will be recalled for the last Test.
 

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No one wants to sink the boot in while a guy is down so I will say I have no problem with Michael Clarke's on field performances. He cannot buy a run at the moment but I do not believe that his career as a Test player is necessarily over. I do however have misgivings about his off field leadership and believe he should be relieved of the Captaincy. What is the basis for this ?

Not a huge fan of Rebecca Wilson but I almost choked on my toast when I read this from Wilson in today's Monopoly Times,

The captain, Michael Clarke, travels to the game on his own before each game. He arrives an hour earlier then the bus, trains like a demon with his personal trainer and only catches up with his team once they canter onto the wicket for last minute preparations.

If this is true it is an incredible state of affairs and one wonders why the Coach and Australian selectors put up with it. Several years ago Ian Chappell had a dead set go at Clarke's aloofness off the field. Looks like there may have been some thing to it.
 

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Do the Australians need to get back to the camaraderie and lack of team rules of the 70s? In the doco they had at lunch last night Dennis Lillee said that at one point they had a contest to see who could grow the best moustache. At another time he had a drink with Jeff Thomson who was drinking whisky in a mug and said he was best when he had a hangover. Doing your best and then being dragged over the coals because you have broken some piffling rule is embarrassing for grown men.
 

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Wasnt the piffy rule thing (not doing homework?) the reason previous coach Micky Arthur got the boot. Under Boof I dont think its as strict?

If Clarke is distanced from the team that wouldnt help morale at all
 

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No one wants to sink the boot in while a guy is down so I will say I have no problem with Michael Clarke's on field performances. He cannot buy a run at the moment but I do not believe that his career as a Test player is necessarily over. I do however have misgivings about his off field leadership and believe he should be relieved of the Captaincy. What is the basis for this ?

Not a huge fan of Rebecca Wilson but I almost choked on my toast when I read this from Wilson in today's Monopoly Times,

The captain, Michael Clarke, travels to the game on his own before each game. He arrives an hour earlier then the bus, trains like a demon with his personal trainer and only catches up with his team once they canter onto the wicket for last minute preparations.

If this is true it is an incredible state of affairs and one wonders why the Coach and Australian selectors put up with it. Several years ago Ian Chappell had a dead set go at Clarke's aloofness off the field. Looks like there may have been some thing to it.
Maybe Simon Katich was on the money when he grabbed Michael Clarke by the throat and bounced him off the change room walls after a test match 6 or 7 seasons back.
 
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From the internet TV guide :

England cruised to an eight-wicket victory in the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston. Watch as the Aussies fight for victory at the fourth test of the Ashes, live from Trent Ridge, Nottingham.

I think someone wrote that a few days ago. Before Australia fell one short of the 18th prime number.

Not sure why they haven't advertised any stand-by programs.
 

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really dont think the selectors did alot wrong. voges has made a mountain of runs the last couple of years. warner, rogers, smith, clarke, johnson, lyon, hazlewood were always going to be picked. the marsh's, starc, were always the next in line, they replaced haddin and watson mid series.
the batsmen just massively underperformed
 
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