The Ashes 2013 - page #1

By #209848 05,Jul,13 01:41

Warner is not an openers bootlace and needs to bat at five or six where he can go after the old ball. Hughes and Watson should open and the supposedly best batsman in the world at the moment (Clarke) should bat at the traditional best bats spot of number three. Then we might have a chance of getting some runs.

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By #360973 11,Jul,13 23:07

I've played against Hughes and I would put him in the same class as Warner - neither of them are test batsmen or have any technique outside of 20/20 cricket. A big

to the "masterminds" behind the creation of 20/20 for murdering test cricket and the technique of batsmen and bowlers worldwide; another

to the Australian media for pushing Ponting out prematurely and leaving the Australian team without a top-class experienced batsman (Clarke is no star and is ugly to watch); another

for Clarke and the selectors for getting rid of Katich just because his personality clashed with Clarke's (the little ponse); & yet another

for selectors past and present for neglecting to make Hodge a permanent fixture in the test team, not taking proper care of Martyn, not picking Lehmann until the end of his career, allowing MacGill to retire straight after Warne did, picking "spinners" when we don't have anyone of a decent standard, not having Voges/Christian/Khuwaja in the current team, making selections based on politics and how people fit in with the others rather than skill and merit, selecting Haddin instead of Ronchi when Gilchrist retired and subsequently **** him to move to New Zealand,...

The batting line-up should be: Katich & Watson, Ponting, Khawaja, Clarke, Voges, Christian, Ronchi!!!
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Khawaja*; and **** = f o r c I n g
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I may as well finish my team: Katich & Watson, Ponting, Khawaja, Clarke, Voges, Christian, Ronchi, Siddle, Pattinson, Hilfenhaus. 12th man: Hodge (only put him as 12th man because i'm not sure whether he'd be keen to play for them at all anymore (if he was open to the idea, i'd make Khawaja 12th man and put Hodge at No.4/2nd drop).
Voges to be a spinning all-rounder (ridiculous that one of the best bats in the country is not in the team) & Clarke and Katich too to bowl spin (when they're needed and their backs are up to it - many people that I know that are 'in the know' agree with me that, when Kat was playing and bowling, he was one of the top spin bowlers in Australia); Christian (the best all-rounder in the country) & Watson to be the medium-pace all-rounders.

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By steve3095 [Ignore] 12,Jul,13 09:16 other posts

Hard man to please. I didn't like the selections either but, who could have seen what Agar did. Hughes was superb keeping his head while the middle order collapsed around him. Cowan won't make that error again, he's technique should hold up in in English conditions. Anderson is just your typical pommy pie chucker. He knows the conditions and bowls to them.
I'm right on us now. Australia to win Trent Bridge and the Ashes.

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By steve3095 [Ignore] 10,Jul,13 08:49 other posts

2/97 at lunch. Need to get Trott. Peterson just gone before I finished the sentence. 3/102. England now a bit wobbly. Bell can't make runs against Australia. What do you think?

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By #261704 30,Jun,13 00:08