- Video
-
Club Roar
Captured a great grassroots sporting moment? We want to see it!Content Collections
The Roar Community
- Join
- Login
Due to the sacking of four Australian Test players, we will be left with the worst Australian XI to ever take to the field.
We will probably have three all-rounders (Steve Smith, Moises Henriques and Glenn Maxwell), a wicketkeeper who’s well past it (Brad Haddin) and two mediocre spinners (Nathan Lyon and Xavier Doherty).
Don’t forget three out of form batsmen (Phil Hughes, Ed Cowan and David Warner) to go with Michael Clarke and two pacemen (Mitchell Starc and Peter Siddle).
Would this team put any fear into India?
With two Ashes series just around the corner, the Aussies have become the laughing stock of international cricket. The Poms are licking their lips!
It is time for a personnel change in Australian cricket and it must happen soon!
We need to see some heads roll and it has to start at the top with the selectors: John Inverarity is just as bad as Andrew Hilditch, if not worse. We need people with good cricketing brains to be selecting the team.
My suggestion would be someone like Steve Waugh to be chairman of selectors.
The coach Mickey Arthur was great for South Africa but maybe his way of coaching is just not right for Australia.
My choice for coach would be current Queensland coach Darren Lehmann, who has had great success since he started coaching. ‘Boof’, your time has come!
Michael Clarke is a good captain, no matter what people say about him, however he should not be a selector because in the past he has given his NSW mates Hughes and Smith selection over others (Usman Khawaja anybody?!)
For the Test squad that goes to the Ashes, quite a few changes will be made.
Out goes Shane Watson, Hughes, Cowan, Lyon, Doherty, Maxwell, Smith, Haddin and Matt Wade. Here is my first XI for first Test against England:
1. Warner, 2. Shaun Marsh, 3. Khawaja, 4. Clarke (c), 5. George Bailey, 6. Tim Paine (wk), 7. Mitch Marsh, 8. Starc, 9. James Pattinson, 10. Ashton Agar, 11. Jackson Bird.
Other touring members: Adam Voges, Chris Hartley, Steve O’Keefe, Ryan Harris, Henriques, Callum Ferguson and Nathan Coulter-Nile
What do other Roarers think? Any other ideas about how to save Australian cricket and possibly recapture the urn?
Build your own fantasy cricket team and put it to the test with Draftstars daily fantasy competitions. Pick your match, pick your team and watch the points roll in to take out cash prizes on each match. What are you really gambling with? Set a deposit limit.