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Certainly someone to keep an eye on, but let’s just give him some time to develop. While his shield average is 38 now, it was 17 prior to this match and he hadn’t scored a half century yet. This is not to be disparaging, but I’d hate to see too much burden placed on him early in his career. I’d hate for him to have a great first half with the shield and be encouraged to go nuts with the bat in the big bash and have that effect his first class batting.
I agree with the sentiment about all-rounders. I wish we would stop looking for a number 6 that can bowl and started looking for a number 8 that can really bat.
A Chris Woakes type, but y’know… one that can bowl outside of England.
Cameron Green is a generational cricket talent
Tours are compressed into a few weeks of back to back tests due to costs. It’s expensive to tour a team. Your talking a squad of 16 odd players, probably a similar number of backroom staff, possibly family members too. Put them all in a hotel, in a large city, not too far from a big stadium. The accommodation bill must be enormous, to say nothing of all the other costs associated with the tour. A quick turnaround between tests could save hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Should Cricket Australia adopt the seven 'P’s instead of a bowling rotation policy?
Apart from centuries in the last test match Australia played…
But yeah, neither had done enough in the back half of the shield or in england to be locks for this tour.
All in all, it’s a good squad. 3 opener. 6 middle order bats. back up keeper (or 2 if you include the whispers about Bancroft being a backup keeper option). Makeshift backup spinner. Six thousand quicks. In all seriousness, it’s maybe one more quick than they need, but it’s lot of matches in a short turn around and it’s already been a long tour for a couple of these guys. Why do I get the impression that they decided to pick siddle as the 17th player to have some extra experience around the squad?
Selectors announce Australia's 17-man Ashes squad
If we are picking players based on grit, then we know Bancroft has it. Or was that granules…
Forecast for a low-scoring Ashes between two weak batting line-ups
Ed Cowan averages more in tests than Maxwell.
Glenn Maxwell's Test career cruelled by World Cup flop
Please don’t while Carlton have a head coach vacancy…
Dockers not panicking despite derby hiding
The strategy of going after mature players after going to the draft for a few years has always been the strategy. It started last year, but ending up with the number one pick was too good to pass up so they had another dip at the draft.
I firmly believe that is why they were more than willing to swap picks with Adelaide this year. Carlton have enough young talent on the list and don’t need a high first round pick, they need to lure in quality trade targets. In negotiating, a first round pick is a handy asset, but whether it’s pick 1 or pick 12, it probably doesn’t make a whole lot of difference. In fact, with pick 1, the temptation would be not to trade it. But as everyone likes to point out, there are a lot of pick 1s on Carlton’s list. They don’t need another one now, they need a quality mature player.
And they need to do whatever they need to to keep Cripps. They’ve already made him captain, I’d be bringing him in on coach selection and let him pick someone he can work with to lead this young side for another 5 years.
What Carlton must do to improve
As someone who moved to Tasmania from Melbourne, I’ve got to say there is nothing we love more than hearing mainland opinions about what’s going to work in terms of AFL in Tasmania. I agree, it would be great for Tasmania to have an AFL side, but it’s not a priority for the AFL. The most likely way for Tasmania to get an AFL team in the short term would be if a Melbourne team relocated. The current deals mean that Tasmania gets 8 AFL matches a year, which is probably about right – if there was a side based here it would only mean a few extra games per year. But this is all a digression.
North Melbourne have sold home games to Sydney (1999 – 2002), Canberra (2002-2006), GoldCoast( 2007,2008) and finally Hobart(2012 onwards). So in the past 20 years, there has been three seasons where North hasn’t played home games to another state. You seem to imply that Tasmania is the problem here. North don’t play games here out of the goodness of their hearts – they do so because of a lucrative financial agreement. You say the club is financially stable… If you take out the money that they receive from the Tasmanian government things don’t look so rosy. Tasmania is going to be a part of North’s identity for a while yet it seems.
Dear North Melbourne
Stand back and take a look at it from a bit further away.
Between the World Cup squad and the two Australia A squads, the selectors announced 34 players that will be in England this summer. Thats not including another half dozen or so including siddle, burns, bancroft and renshaw who are playing in county cricket who may have made the A squad if not for the fact they were already there.
That’s roughly forty players, or put another way, close of half of Australias mens cricketers will be in England in some capacity. You can criticise the Marsh brothers all you like, but surely they are in the top half of Australian mens cricketers?
Shaun is unlikely to be in the starting 11 at the world cup. Mitch Marsh is unlikely to take the field in the Ashes. Does their presence in these squads boost their chances? sure. But with so many players over there, it doesn’t mean the selectors have gone nuts and have Mitch open the batting and Shaun open the bowling at Edgbaston.
Selectors can’t rid themselves of the Marsh habit
Please don’t be concerned. Test cricket has been evolving throughout it’s entire history. Test cricket has been played with 4 ball overs, 8 ball overs, even 5 ball overs. Pitches use to remain uncovered for the duration of matches, regardless of the weather. Matches used to be three or four days. We had timeless tests. There used to be rest days in the middle of a test match.
5 day, 6 ball over test cricket has only been the norm since the 80’s. And even then we’ve had changes, like the abolishment of runners and the introduction of DRS. The proposed changes are really just minor fiddling around the edges in comparison to some of the changes that test cricket has seen.
Don’t worry, Test cricket will be fine.
An open letter from a concerned fan of Test cricket
Yeah, except CA yesterday announced that Short was flying home now that Shaun Marsh has joined the squad.
Carey also confirmed to keep, it will be interesting to see whether he opens or is pushed down the order.
Turner and Short could get World Cup auditions today
I guess that’s what the world cup will be for – to prove their ashes fitness.
VOTE: Pick your Australian XI for the Ashes
Soft runs? Wade may be batting at 6, but he’s frequently batting with Tasmania 4 down for not many, coming inside the first 20 overs. He’s also making those runs at Belrieve oval.
No one is suggesting that he he would be let anywhere near the gloves in a test match. He would be a specialist bat, probably at six.
The selectors apparently wanted to see him batting up the order, but didn’t tell him they wanted to see him batting up the order. It will be interesting to see whether he passes the gloves in the second half of the shield, Tasmania seem to have 60 keepers in their squad.
Patterson ton a welcome addition to Ashes intrigue
There’s a number of reasons that his form was down in those two season, primarily the illness and death of his father, and his call up for white ball national duty.
Meanwhile he’s one of the leading wicket takers in BBL, and one of the leading run scorers. He’s averaging 42 with the bat and 25 with the ball in the shield. He’s certainly in reasonable form, better than M. Marsh anyway.
Whether we need him in the side or not is a valid question, but there’s nothing wrong with the reasons for bringing him in. It may just be to give him some exposure around the squad with a view to the future.
Stoinis does not deserve a Test debut
The lack of centuries thing is amusing to me. Sometimes it just happens that for whatever reason, batsmen don’t get to triple figures. There was a summer about a decade ago when we went a 3 test series against West Indies without anyone making a century. The top 6 then was katich, Watson, Ponting,Hussey, clarke and north. There was at least a dozen half centuries and Australia won it comfortably. But I remember the noise from the airchairs about the lack of centuries.
Head has made solid contributions all summer, and Labuschagne has had decent returns thus far. Labuschagne in particular looks solid. Head isn’t the prettiest batsman to watch especially early in his innings, but he generally gets through, even if it takes him a bit of luck. Hooefully the patience comes as he matures as a test cricketer.
A chanceless century is pretty rare. It’s not uncommon for batsman to give a chance and then go on and punish the opposition with a big score.
Australian rookies run Sri Lanka ragged
The word theory in science does not have the same meaning as in common vernacular. A scientific theory has indeed been tested and is accepted as valid.
Hot enough (to cancel the Test match cricket) for ya?
Geoff, I’m not quite sure why you feel that Head is a match or two from the axe – he was our second highest run scorer against India. He’s still finding his feet at test level but he isn’t embarassing himself. He’s also got plenty of state captaincy experience and seems like a very mature person.
While confusion reigns, Sri Lanka could knock off Australia at home
I really hope both he and Pucovski debut, although I can see the selectors choosing not to blood them both in the same match, espexially with Richardson a chance to debut too. If they are both in, it’s probably at the expense of burns and Renshaw, which I presume would mean Khawaja opening?
Harris, Khawaja, Labuschagne, Head, Patterson, Pucovski? I can’t imagine the odds you would have got from a bookie if you picked that top 6 at the end of the last Australian summer…
Kurtis Patterson added to Australian Test squad to play Sri Lanka
Can’t believe it took me longer to settle on the bowling line up than the batting lineup…
VOTE: Pick your Australian XI to play Sri Lanka
Shaw was ruled out of the series after the Perth test and was replaced by Agarwal.
I agree that side would be fantastic.
Labuschagne recall likely, named in squad for SCG Test
Good article Ronan. I’d also tack the tour to Bangladesh onto that India tour. 22 wickets at less that 15 in two matches showed Lyon that he could be that world class spinner that he had threatened to be.
I remember that India tour when Lyon was dropped for the first time when all the commentary was that he wasn’t upto it and we had to keep searching for the next Shane Warne. I remember telling someone that we had to get out of that mindset and stop trying to compare everyone to a once in a generation talent. We didn’t need him to be the next Shane Warne, we just needed him to be Nathan Lyon. Luckily, he got some support from the selectors and he’s became the first player picked on the team sheet.
How Nathan Lyon went from a groundsman to Australia's GOAT
I think you mean you meant to name Murali Vijay instead of Rahane.
On Pujara though, he made 123 and 71 in Adelaide. Sure, he had a lean match in Perth, but that happens. He’s averaging 50+ for the series, I’m not sure what more you want the number 3 to do. He’s still the key wicket to my mind, even more than Kohli.
The precarious state of the Indian Test team
Because Australia have such a great record on those too…
Credit where credit is due – India outplayed a nigh on full-strength Australian team in our backyard. They handed us our first defeat at the Gabba in three decades, playing five bowlers who had bowled a grand total of 10 balls in Test cricket before this series started.
Rishabh Pant masterclass guides India to incredible fourth Test win at the Gabba