Test Squad For The Windies

[ScouseCat]

Originally posted by St-KriS
Stephen Waugh (captain)
Ricky Ponting (vice-captain)
Andrew Bichel
Adam Gilchrist
Jason Gillespie*
Matthew Hayden
Brad Hogg
Justin Langer
Brett Lee
Martin Love
Darren Lehmann
Stuart MacGill
Damien Martyn
Glenn McGrath
Ashley Noffke

Brad Williams and Michael Clarke would be disappointed to miss out on the tour as both players had pretty good seasons during our summer.

 

[Darky]

Originally posted by manmountain
With batsmen, Hodge and Arnberger have been as prolific as almost anyone else over the past five years, but with such a strong test team, it's a matter of having a purple patch around the time a vacancy comes up, which is rare.

Hodge is not a conistent run-scorer, and is not in the same league as players like Lehmann, Blewett, Clarke, Katich, Love, Hussey, Bevan, etc etc whose averages are roughly 10 runs higher.

It also took him until his 100th F/C match to get past 140, which is a disappointing return for a player that had very high expectations attached to him after his first big season in 1995/96. People generally reckon mark Waugh underachieved.. well his overall Test record is very similar to Hodge's domestic record.

Hodge had a very disappointing season this year too, Finished the season averaging 33, and until that big century in the last match was averaging only 22 and would have been close to getting dropped.


His Sheffield Shield record thus far :

1993-94 - 903 runs @ 50.16
1994-95 - 343 runs @ 22.86
1995-96 - 174 runs @ 21.75
1996-97 - 237 runs @ 19.75
1997-98 - 494 runs @ 38.00
1998-99 - 652 runs @ 43.46
1999-00 - 423 runs @ 24.88
2000-01 - 973 runs @ 54.05
2001-02 - 858 runs @ 57.20
2002-03 - 503 runs @ 33.53

In ten seasons, that's very inconsistent, and five of those years were absolute crap. Not much of a case for national selection I would have thought, and probably lucky to even be considered "fringe".