So is Marcus North...

[The Falcon Strike]

Australia's best spinner?

Not getting many wickets - but at least not getting punished. Should we simply move him to 8 and accept the reality that a spinner averaging mid 30's is the best we have?

 

[aussie1st]

Would have liked trying O'Keefe instead of Doherty, he offers more in the field and batting and seems to have a knack for picking up wickets even though he might not look the most threatening.

 

[SurfingTheVoid]

Either him or O'Keefe.

Next test (dreaming...):

Hughes
Katich
Khawaja
Watson
Hussey
Ponting
Haddin
North/O'Keefe
Harris
Hilfenhaus
Bollinger

 

[lemon chicken]

Surely its the only way he can keep his place. Come in at 8 and just play shots. Has bowled as well as any spinner that could replace Doherty.

 

[King Elvis]

Get rid of him and Doherty, put O'Keefe and Smith in.

 

[Heisenberg_]

Get rid of him and Doherty, put O'Keefe and Smith in.

Thats what they should do, no chance of it though.
O'Keefe takes wickets something our other spinners almost always fail to do, give him a shot FFS anybody with half a clue knew that Doherty isn't up to Test bowling.
O'Keege actually looked pretty good against England.

 

[krusden]

Australia's best spinner?

Not getting many wickets - but at least not getting punished. Should we simply move him to 8 and accept the reality that a spinner averaging mid 30's is the best we have?

no.

our best spinner in australia probably was krejza.

behind that, cullen bailey or dan cullen.

all of which have been treated like s***.

 

[Heisenberg_]

no.

our best spinner in australia probably was krejza.

behind that, cullen bailey or dan cullen.

all of which have been treated like s***.

Good joke.
Our best spinner is O'Keefe by a long way.

 

[King Elvis]

Krezja deserved a much better run at it than he got though.

 

[western royboy]

I heard Brett Geeves on the radio the other day, he was asked about Krejza and said he didn't like bowling into the wind.

If that's the case (and who am I to argue) then that might explain a fair bit.

I think Krejza is the best wicket taking option but if he only wants to bowl downwind then he's not going to play that often.

 

[amer]

I'll tell you what he isn't and that's a good batsman.