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The Sports Desk / Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Why wouldnt we consider Wade? Captains his state and has made shield and test runs... Keepers only have to take the chances offered, they dont generate them.

Who is the current NSW keeper, he is probably the next annointed one....
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The Sports Desk / Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
It craps me no end that the media spotlight has been turned on Steve Smith's captaincy when he stands at the non-striker's end and watching the numpties that the selectors expect him to win games with make the same errors over and over and over.

Sorry Voges, its over,  Thanks, but its over.  Next.

Nev....  You seem a decent bloke and a tidy gloveman but you have to make runs.  Next.

Ferg... We'll give you a thank you test in Adelaide so make sure you enjoy it.

Burnsy...  there's a shield game starting on Thursday... make sure you play in it.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Neville just doesn't make enough runs, I reckon Wade should be looked at.

Lyon has been found out and is bowling horribly.... Time to regain form at shield level.  Same for Burns.

Id look at Bancroft or Maddinson to open.

Replace Mennie with Sayers: Hazelwood is being flogged because he is accurate and looks likely, as a true test standard bowler should.  The others are not contributing enough.

Must have a spin option in Adelaide, ? Maxwell, o'Keefe, Zampa, Holland?
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The Sports Desk / Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Can't see Mennie playing a lot of tests, doesn't look like a wicket taker... Lack penetration and doesn't move it around.  How he got a game before Sayers or Bird, well only Marsh knows, because I don't see it.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Our blokes try to pick up the ball early and commit to playing a line. Works on flat pitches but any movement and they're shot.  Watch the Voges dismissal... Commits early and made no allowance for any variation and a soft, soft dismissal.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
With the DRS in use last match Warne would have taken 1500 wickets.  Crikey, talk about one side getting the rub of the green....

I'd play Steve O'Keefe... as a left hander turning the ball away from the RHers he is a slightly more attacking option.  He has been a bloody good shield player for a long, long time.

Zampa is no mug either.

If we want a few overs of off spin to break it up we could look at Maxwell.  The problem is that none of our current bats really offer much in the part time bowling department, except for Smith who has lost faith in himself as a bowler.

I really like Siddle but we need a bowler with more penetration.  Unless there is a point of difference eg height or moves the ball a lot there isn't much call for blokes that trundles it down at 130 kph.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Ok S. Marsh is injured, Burns replaces him.

Siddle has been a mighty warrior but M. Marsh plays the plug it up role. I'd play a more dynamic dealer like Chad Sayers or Faulkner.

I'd also give o' Keefe a chance, Lyon has been found out. 
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The Sports Desk / Re: Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??
Bowled their guts out with zero luck, although Starc still bowls too much crap.  Lyon should have bowled more.

Big no to Henriques, bowling not good enough, saffies with slay him.

I'd be looking at Maxwell in the mid order (plus a few overs) and Chad Sayers as a different bowling option, especially in an Adelaide test.

I've always liked Maddinson but one go hard LH opener is probably enough.