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Love Steve Smith and Nathan Lyon. Israel Falou and Quade Cooper in Rugby. Sieze the moment. Most memorable match would be Reds win over Crusaders in Super Rugby Final in 2011.
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As much hype surrounds the World Cup at the moment, with team totals and records blown out of the water, you would expect many…
So the southern hemisphere summer has finally ended with the Australian cricket team victorious over England and South Africa. Now that these Test series…
With the Ashes return bout coming to Australia's shores, Australia will need to pick an XI that can win the Ashes. The XI I…
Why is Warner a certain starter? He is not very good and he is a grub!
Tea should be; 1.Rogers 2.Hughes 3.Watson 4.Clarke 5.Smith 6.Doolan 7.Haddin/Hartley 8.Siddle 9.Johnson 10.Harris 11.Lyon
Who comes in for Watson if he misses Brisbane?
1. Rogers 2. Hughes 3. Watson 4. Clarke (c) 5. Smith (vc) 6. Doolan 7. Haddin (vc,wk) 8. O’keefe 9. Siddle 10. Harris 11. Hazlewood 12. Johnson, Burns, Warner, Neville
My Aussie team for the first return Ashes Test
You can’t say we are GOING to LOSE. Many of our batsmen are in form. Rogers is the most solid opener we’ve had since Hayden retired. Watson just hit a couple of hundreds international cricket, Clarke is always going to be good, apart from his back. Smith is in great form. We just need an opener and a no.6. England are not decided on their no.6 yet either. And we have Shield games to decide before the first test. Also Harris, Siddle, Johnson, Hazlewood, Coulter-Nile and Cutting are all bowling well, apart from Cutting, all have been playing some form of cricket somewhere in the world. A team that (I wish) looks like; Rogers, Warner, Watson, Clarke, Smith, Burns/Maddinson/Doolan/Hughes, Haddin, O’keefe, Siddle, Harris, Johnson/Hazlewood/Cutting/Coulter-Nile.
This sought of team could win an ashes against; Cook- out of form, couldn’t but a run in Eng. Root- will struggle on bouncy Aussie wickets. Trott- Also out of form. Pietersen- never known how he will play, Harris has his measure. Bell- won the shes for Eng, but he has many weaknesses. No.6- ??? Prior- Set a trap and he will usually fall into it. And the bowlers.
India selections have one eye on the Ashes
Agree with the Cutting call, and Hartley, and Maddinson. Madds and Burns must both to fight for a place at six in the opening test at the Gabba. Now is there chances with an undecided test team.
My Australian team for the first Test
Thanks for the comments, it all helps. Most of you are right and leaving out Siddle is probably wrong, but the form I am talking about is the final test matches (again, where he took 6 wickets in 3 tests) and the ODI’s and some aussies are in county cricket.
Henriques is there so when Shane Watson breaks down again, we will have a bowler, but until he breaks down I would slot Burns in at six as he has been playing county cricket and CLT20 (Will need a few good shied games first up).
When I selected Hughes I meant that he can hang around for a while until he faces swann or gets another shiz decision from the umpire.
Mitchell Johnsons selection comes from all the hype around him bowling straight and fast in the ODI’s and CLT20 and with Mitchell Starc injured, Australia always want to play an left-armer.
Warner batted terribly apart from that 72, so that is the form I’m going on but I would like to see Hughes vs Warner in the three sheld matches leading up to the test series for a place as the opener with Rogers.
SOK is a better spinner than Lyon, better batsman and an even, if not better fielder. So why not pick him?
Also good to see a couple of blokes know their cricket.
FYI, I’m from Queensland, but unfortunately we don’t have test cricketers at the moment.
Australia's first Ashes Test XI, based on form
When Robbie Deans relises that James O’Connor is not a test standard fly-half and he fails in the first game against B&I Lions will he bring in Quade Cooper then. If everybody is honest, Quade is pretty good form, and sure, he makes many mistake whilst trying to create TRYS. And he CAN tackle he chooses not to most of the time. He needs to be in the team for the second game if we stand a chance of squareing up the series. My team for the second game would be;
1. Ben Alexander
2. Stephen Moore
3. James Slipper
4. James Horwill (c)
5. Hughe McMeniman
6. Ben Mowen
7. Michael Hooper
8. Scott Higginbotham (he’ll be back from injury)
9. Will Genia
10. Quade Cooper
11. Luke Morahan/Digby Ioane
12. Christian Lealiifano
13. Adam Ashley-Cooper
14. Israel Folau
15. James O’Connor
16. Saia Faiangaa
17. Benn Robinson
18. Peter Kimlin
19. Liam Gill
20. Nic White
21. Berrick Barnes
22. Joseph Tomane/Luke Morahan
Genia supports under-fire Wallaby O'Connor
Swann and Prior are over rated.
Why Australia will reclaim the Ashes