Wicketkeeper Brad Haddin says he’s been dropped, not rested from the Australian one-day cricket team and concedes he may never get his spot back.
The 34-year-old conceded his poor form had presented Matthew Wade with an opportunity, even though national selector John Inverarity explained it as resting him after a heavy schedule.
Haddin said if the Victorian gloveman took his chance in the opening matches of the ODI series against India and Sri Lanka starting on Sunday, he could be kept out of the team for good but he vowed to be ready for a recall.
It’s been suggested Haddin will return for the latter half of the ODI series, but Haddin said he must face facts amid suggestions Wade may also be taken as a second wicketkeeper for the tour to the West Indies starting in March.
“I think any time you’re out of the Australian cricket team I think you’re dropped,” Haddin told Sky Sports Radio on Tuesday.
“You give another guy an opportunity to take your spot and you’ve got to look if they do well, you could find it hard to get back in the team.
“But that’s the way it’s and I’ve just got to deal with that and make sure I’m ready to play.”
Haddin has been under pressure all summer over his performances at Test level and Wade has been touted as his likely replacement should selectors decide to make a change.
Wade will also play in the two Twenty20 internationals against India this week in Sydney and Melbourne, and Haddin said he understood the need to give his deputy a proper taste of international cricket.
Haddin will captain the Prime Minister’s XI against Sri Lanka in Canberra on February 3 and knowing that he’s in a fight to hold his place in the Australian set-up, promised to rise to the challenge.
“If you give your spot up and someone does well you’ve got no right just to walk straight back in,” he said.
“I’m actually looking forward to the PM’s game, for someone from Canberra it’s a great opportunity to get back and captain that side.
“It’s what it is at the moment. I’ve just got to make sure the next time I get an opportunity again I’m ready to go and I know I will be.”
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January 31st 2012 @ 2:19pm
Brett McKay said | January 31st 2012 @ 2:19pm | Report comment
this is a pretty frank admission from Haddin…
January 31st 2012 @ 2:20pm
Nathan of Perth said | January 31st 2012 @ 2:20pm | Report comment
I can’t say I don’t feel for the guy, that’s gotta hurt. But the selectors have been needing to get back in touch with their ruthless side for years and, sorry Haddin, the glovework is a must.
January 31st 2012 @ 6:06pm
Maggie said | January 31st 2012 @ 6:06pm | Report comment
I would be very disappointed if this leads to Peter Nevilll being dislodged from the NSW Sheffield Shield team. I have no problem with Matthew Wade getting his chance at the ODI and T20 levels but many suggest Nevill is a better wicketkeeper than Wade. Nevill also has a very healthy batting average of 67.4 from 11 first-class innings in 2011-12 and an overall first-class average of 49.3. In a weekend article Stuart Clark lauded Nevill as an Australian test prospect. It would indeed be sod’s law if he got dropped from the NSW team because of Haddin’s return and therefore lost his chance to keep on demonstrating his skills to the Australian selectors.
January 31st 2012 @ 11:56pm
TJ said | January 31st 2012 @ 11:56pm | Report comment
Maggie – I’ve heard four people claim Nevill is a better option than Wade – Jim Maxwell, Andrew Faulkner (the Australian), Kerry O’Keefe, and Stuart Clark. Funnily enough they are all Sydneysiders (just like myself FYI), so there could be a little bias there.
February 1st 2012 @ 1:14am
Nathan of Perth said | February 1st 2012 @ 1:14am | Report comment
Absolutely do not care about the wicket keeper’s batting ability. Any such talent is purely a bonus, as there is no keeper-batter talented enough with the bat to make up for a pair of drops or failed stampings/runouts.
Glovework first, second, third and only. A bstter’s screw up causes a hiccup in an innings. A keeper’s screw up shifts the tides of whole test matches. Trying to find another Gilchrist is an exercise in futility.
January 31st 2012 @ 7:27pm
Matthan12 said | January 31st 2012 @ 7:27pm | Report comment
Brad Haddin is a great player, but it is time to give wade a couple opportunities to be around the squad and be ready for the windies! Haddin will be back
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January 31st 2012 @ 8:56pm
Swampy said | January 31st 2012 @ 8:56pm | Report comment
Let’s correct the headlines – Haddin has acknowledged that being ‘rested’ is akin to being dropped as it gives someone else a chance to take your place. Should Wade perform well then, as Haddin has been quoted, Haddin might find it hard to find his place back in the team as the number 1 choice. I can’t see how this would affect Nevill as Haddin won’t be playing at all – he is in fact resting!
If the selectors do retain Wade after the first 3 matches then yes Peter Nevill’s immediate future may be clouded.
Interesting that Nevill chose to move to NSW to avoid playing second fiddle to Wade in Victoria – choice to move to a state where this scenario was always on the cards was maybe flawed. As many say he is a superior glove man and batsman then surely NSW could select both Haddin and Nevill – one as a batsman and one as a keeper!
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February 1st 2012 @ 12:26pm
Matt F said | February 1st 2012 @ 12:26pm | Report comment
I wouldn’t call it a flawed choice to move to NSW. Haddin was an Aus regular for all forms so being “2nd choice” behind Haddin for NSW is/was basically being 1st choice.
Assuming that Haddin doesn’t get picked for the remaining ODI’s, he’ll obiously be wanting to play in the Shield matches until the end of the season to make his case for the WIndies tour. If he is dropped from the test team for the WIndies tour then I think he’ll retire from Shield, and maybe even one-day cricket, and just play T20 which will leave Nevill as the number one NSW keeper.
I think that NSW will play both of them for the rest of the Shield season as they could both make the NSW team on batting alone (when in form obviously) but it will be interesting to see who keeps.
February 1st 2012 @ 10:12am
jameswm said | February 1st 2012 @ 10:12am | Report comment
I would also be disappointed to see Nevill dropped from the NSW team to make way for haddin. I don’t quite get the “resting” part, as he (Haddin) seems slated to play a Shield game.
I had the best look I could at the keeping abilities of Nevill and Wade in the BBL, and I thought Nevill was significantly superior. Nevill also has a better FC batting record, but once selectors annoint someone, they don’t seem to like going back on it.
Wade’s keeping’s a bit rough – you watch.