By Justin Chadwick
November 20th 2009 @ 1:34am
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Hussey has one eye on Ashes after holding Test spot
Veteran batsman Mike Hussey has set his sights on helping Australia regain the Ashes next year after clinging on to his spot for the first Test against the West Indies.
Hussey’s fighting 121 at The Oval last August followed by a glut of runs in the one-day arena convinced selectors there was still life left in [...]
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vladimir said | November 20th 2009 @ 8:53am | Report comment
its a disgrace that hussey is in the team… his runs in the last test meant nothing…
Fisher Price said | November 20th 2009 @ 9:49am | Report comment
Like Hayden and Symonds before him (and seemingly now Watson), Hussey is part of Ponting’s inner-rectum and, as such, a protected species.
Hussey can crow on all he likes about how his batting is similar in both forms of the game; fact is, the bowling, pressure, pitch conditions and field placements differ considerably.
Just as Hayden should never have gone to England in 2005, Hussey should have missed out this year. One century in 28 innings (and that was in a losing cause). Unbelievable.
Australia has lost 3 of its past 5 Test series. You wouldn’t know it from the spin coming from messrs Ponting, Nielsen and Hilditch
Justin said | November 20th 2009 @ 10:29am | Report comment
The selectors have shown their incompetence yet again. Talk about looking short term.
We all know Watson is not a Test opener and if he is going to bowl 10-12 overs a day he must bat in the middle-lower order. Hughes should be back in the side with Hussey dropped IMO (should have been before the last Ashes Test). His last inings shows 100 plus but from memory he had 3 lives, hardly a convincing knock.
Yet again the selectors are using ODIs as the basis of their selections for Test matches. They are such different games as FP has stated with different rules, field placings and pressure.