Posts Tagged "Andrew Hilditch"

Why is it that two or three days before any Australian international cricket match the selectors hold a press conference announcing the team or, worse still, justifying their selections?

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A pattern has emerged between the last three Australian chairmen of cricket selectors, Trevor Hohns, Andrew Hilditch, and John Inverarity.

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It’s been three and a half years since Phil Jaques last donned the whites for Australia – a Test that ended in a hard fought 87 run win over the West Indies at Bridgetown.

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Selection chief Andrew Hilditch was unfairly turned on by fans and the media, Cricket Australia’s outgoing chairman Jack Clarke says. And Clarke has also defended the record of ex-coach Tim Nielsen, who quit the job last month.

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I haven’t said this too often. In-fact i’m not sure i’ve ever said it, but here goes. Well done to the Australian selectors. Okay, that wasn’t as bad as I thought.

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Andrew Hilditch expects his love affair to end within a month. Hilditch suspects announcing the Australian Test squad on Monday for next month’s tour of South Africa was his last task as chairman of selectors.

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In five years time, world cricket could very well hail Pat Cummins as its number one bowler, such is the young man’s ability.

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When Australian cricket fans woke up this morning, they may not have known it, but the birds were singing and the sun was shining just for them. After many months of hope and prayer, it was the day Andrew Hilditch’s time as chairman of selectors came to an end.

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Cricket Australia has announced the results of their team performance review by Don Argus, with the key recommendations being a new management position as General Manager of team performance, and a new five-man selection panel with a full-time chairman, two independent selectors, the captain of the Test side, and a new head coach.

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Australia will look to start their long climb back up the world Test rankings when they take on Sri Lanka in the first of three Test matches later this month

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Much has been made of the axing of Simon Katich from the list of contracted players for 2011-12. Now a politician has even joined in the ‘hate-selectors’ campaign.

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James Sutherland lost a lot of respect by condoning the sacking of Simon Katich, which has left even the average cricket-lover breathless in disbelief. The 35 year-old opening batsman was a shock omission from the 25-strong elite contracted player’s squad, when he’s been one of the best baggy green batsmen over the last three years.

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Cricket Australia’s decision not to renew Simon Katich’s contract highlights a worrying trend in sport. Specifically, that administrators, coaches and selectors place a heightened importance on being successful in the future, at the expense of the present.

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Nobody is better at dodging bullets than Andrew Hilditch. The selection chairman of three Ashes series losses in four should have been sacked, especially after his inane quote of, “We (selectors) did a pretty good job.” “The good job” translates to losing the last series 3-1.

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Cricket Australia has today announced its list of 25 contracted players, with Patrick Cummins and James Pattison earning contracts for the first time. Simon Katich is the notable omission, also dropped in 2007.

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Andrew Hilditch says he welcomes Cricket Australia’s decision to hold a review into the team’s poor performance in the Ashes series which England won 3-1.

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Murali is set to renew his love hate relationship with Australian cricket. Shunned by many and called for throwing, he remains an enigmatic figure with punters Down Under. He is either the greatest or just a “chucker”.

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Xavier Doherty has been called in to replace injured spinner Nathan Hauritz for the next two one-day matches against England.

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Another calamity for Australian cricket, this time off the field, has heaped extra pressure on besieged chief selector Andrew Hilditch.

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I just about vaulted my delicious Beef Stroganoff dinner (so lovingly prepared by my wife) when I heard Andrew Hilditch proclaim that he and his team had done a very good job as selectors of the Australian Test side.

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