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How does Ben Cutting not finally get a chance to prove himself on the biggest stage in cricket for Australia?
Injuries have seen the options of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and James Pattinson unavailable to help grab the urn back.
So who do we turn to in our hour of need? Mitchell Johnson.
I can already see it now, horrible flashbacks to England being 1/500 at the Gabba in their second dig, Johnson bowling over after over of nothing.
He finished the match with figures of 0/170 off 42 overs. That was the day I realised, and so should have the selectors, Mitchell Johnson just wasn’t up to Test standard.
Never mind he took 10 wickets in the third Test after being dropped, the damage of what had been such a up-and-down Test career was done.
He faltered at the MCG and again in Sydney, his time was up in the Test arena just before he was 30.
Cutting last year had a strike rate of 38.8, while Johnson was 52.5. Both played the same number of games and bowled in the same amount of innings. Cutting played for the team that made the final, Johnson did not.
Most importantly though, Cutting took 22 wickets, Johnson 17.
Ben Cutting played in the Australia A game against the English, giving the English batsmen a lot of concern and taking the key wicket of Jonathan Trott.
However, along with his 10 mates who played for the ‘A’ team, he got absolutely no look in for the first Test.
So will somebody please give me a logical reason as to why Mitchell Johnson has been chosen to help take the 20 wickets needed to help Australia win the first Test?
Didn’t think so.
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