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.

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