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FWIW Steve Smith was captain of the NSW one day side. To his credit he has always been a good fielder. However as a batsman I expect him to get found out again in the South African tour.

Having said that Phil Hughes is captaining the Strikers. He has way too much talent to not eventually get himself back into the Australian side and cement his spot.
 

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Would have to agree Fyfie. If you'd told someone in 1987 that Steve Waugh would go on to be one of our greatest ever captains, they'd have laughed at you too. If he can stay in the team, Bailey is another option.
He'll be lucky to stay in the side vs SA and unless he plays brilliantly there he'll be gone for someone younger. He has experience which is handy, but I don't think he's got a spot in the test team long-term.
 

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FWIW Steve Smith was captain of the NSW one day side. To his credit he has always been a good fielder. However as a batsman I expect him to get found out again in the South African tour.

Having said that Phil Hughes is captaining the Strikers. He has way too much talent to not eventually get himself back into the Australian side and cement his spot.
I wouldn't be surprised if most of batting line-up doesn't get found out in SA. Smith made a ton in England and one at the WACA, he's come a long way against pace bowling.

Bit of a leadership vaccum at the Strikers though, it's why Botha is there in the first place.

Piss Watson off he is a hack. Get our man Doolan in for a crack!
Doolan to #3, Bailey out, everyone drops a spot, Clarke gets to return to comfortable #5, and Smith gets a bit elss pressure on at #6.
 

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Doolan to #3, Bailey out, everyone drops a spot, Clarke gets to return to comfortable #5, and Smith gets a bit elss pressure on at #6.
Watson is saved by the fact that there just isn't enough stand-outs in the batting department at the moment.
Bailey will play first test but I expect Doolan to debut.
 

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Watson is saved by the fact that there just isn't enough stand-outs in the batting department at the moment.
Bailey will play first test but I expect Doolan to debut.
His bowling saves him too. Bailey had a perfect chance today with a lack of pressure and couldn't get it done, they'll make the tough call on him before the first test.
 

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His bowling saves him too. Bailey had a perfect chance today with a lack of pressure and couldn't get it done, they'll make the tough call on him before the first test.
He is averaging slightly better than Khawaja and Khawaja got 9 opportunities...
FWIW Doolan's first-class average is higher than Bailey.
 

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Past 3/4 captains says otherwise
Selective stats though, the 5 before that were non-NSW, and Waugh would never have got the gig if Warnie could have kept it in his pants.

He is averaging slightly better than Khawaja and Khawaja got 9 opportunities...
FWIW Doolan's first-class average is higher than Bailey.
Khawaja was younger and had a far superior FC record without the knocks that Bailey has (most of which have proven correct). Doolan will probably play instead of Bailey, unless they recall Hughes, or North, or Marsh.
 
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Would have to agree Fyfie. If you'd told someone in 1987 that Steve Waugh would go on to be one of our greatest ever captains, they'd have laughed at you too. If he can stay in the team, Bailey is another option.
Matty Wade ;) Vic skipper biding his time.
 

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Smith will be most likely captain after Clarke. He is a pretty good leader for Nsw on the occasions i have seen. Just on South Africa series i dont think we will win a game.
 

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Here's a few numbers from the tests that show you how bad the English were.

Number of 0 scores ( ducks or last man standing with 0) in the five tests

England 16
Australia 6

Number of scores between 0-10 (including last man standing with 0) in the five tests

England 53
Australia 32

Runs scored when the fifth wicket fell in the 5 tests

England 10 times, average 128 runs
Australia 8 times, average 191 runs

Runs scored between when the fifth wicket fell and the 10th wicket fell in the 5 tests

England 10 times, 79.7 average ( it's actually worse because the total 6 of those tests were 61 runs or below)

Australia 5 times, 167 average ( again the stat is flattering to England because in 3 of those 5 times the score was 195 runs or more).
 

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Here's a few numbers from the tests that show you how bad the English were.

Number of 0 scores ( ducks or last man standing with 0) in the five tests

England 16
Australia 6

Number of scores between 0-10 (including last man standing with 0) in the five tests

England 53
Australia 32

Runs scored when the fifth wicket fell in the 5 tests

England 10 times, average 128 runs
Australia 8 times, average 191 runs

Runs scored between when the fifth wicket fell and the 10th wicket fell in the 5 tests

England 10 times, 79.7 average ( it's actually worse because the total 6 of those tests were 61 runs or below)

Australia 5 times, 167 average ( again the stat is flattering to England because in 3 of those 5 times the score was 195 runs or more).
The best stat was that we got all 100 of their wickets. Which i think is the first time it has happened in the ashes.
 
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The Australian batting performance for wickets 6 to 10, I reckon was sublime.

The English top 5 was brittle but did reach 5 for 190 or more 3 times but the English wickets for 6 to 10 was just abysmal and no reasonably performing batsman for England could rely upon his lower order batsmen to stick around.

On the other hand, a reasonably performing Australian batsman could rely upon his lower order batsmen sticking around and scoring runs themselves.
 

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Anyways what a boring series, yay we won and we rightfully got the Urn back but still how piss poor were The Poms. Congrats to Clarke for ending the most successful era of cricket The Poms have ever ever had eerrrrrr ever? And it was only four and a half years long lol.
 
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Shame they overlook bowlers for the captaincy, as I feel Peter Siddle would be a decent captain.
I can see Siddle not playing in two years. We have Cummins, Pattinson, Starc and another kid ready to go, so the depth is there. Our batting stocks is still a worry depth wise. Wade or Payne, maybe Bailey if he can lift to the standard required. I reckon that's where the next captain comes from.
 

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I wouldn't be surprised if most of batting line-up doesn't get found out in SA. Smith made a ton in England and one at the WACA, he's come a long way against pace bowling.
I consider that our batsmen where found out by England. Our tail was good enough to hang around and one batsmen would get a hunderd. But the lower order never really set up a victory without needing the tail.

If the English tail had hung around and the English batsmen had had the confidence (or lack of undeserved arrogence) to trust their tail then maybe they would have had more hunderds themselves.
 
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