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To be fair, Carey has played cricket, and has looked awful. That and we should be picking our best gloveman. This selection is based on it being “his turn” rather than any sort of form warranting his spot in the side. I just have a feeling he’s going to struggle with the bat and he won’t have his gloves to fall back on. Another Matthew Wade. We should really be looking to the future here and backing in a long term prospect. I know it’s a different format but surely if you’ve been around the national squad already you’re next in line, regardless of how much cricket you’ve played.
Carey is better than Wade, also if Inglis has a strong back half to the shield season and Carey doesn’t perform he can replace him
Inglis won’t get a look in now. They’ll back in their selection until the end of time and we’ll be doing all this again in 4-5 years regardless of how Carey actually performs. If there were no other options I wouldn’t be fussed but we’ve got a genuine 10+ year option who is very tidy with the gloves and more than capable with the bat. Carey is being picked because he was supposed to get the nod back when Paine took over and the selectors are thinking he’s the second coming of Gilly.
Shaky with the Gloves? What have you been watching? Carey is as clean as anyone behind the stumps.
It’s premature to call Inglis a 10+ year option. He had a good season last year but let’s not get ahead of ourselves
You're correct, you are biased.
Nope no way is Inglis significantly better. You dont get as many dismissals as Carey has by being Average. Also keeps to Rashid Khan in the Big Bash.
Potential 10 year option* The difference is you can back in a 25 year old if he doesn’t quite nail it from the get go. If Carey comes out and stinks it up (on current form, a very real possibility) then you’ve really got nowhere to go. You can’t drop him immediately but he’s also not getting any younger, so you end up in this limbo again for the next 3-4 years.
Take the Redbacks glasses off.
Big bash is an entirely different game. One **** up in a test can cost you big time. Big bash it hurts if you miss a dismissal but it’s not necessarily the end of the world. In a test match you get limited opportunities and your keeper is expected to take 100% of his otherwise he’s not doing his job. You don’t want to notice your keeper at all.
Mate if he plays the ashes and plays poorly can can most definitely drop him. 5 tests is a decent time to give someone
He’s struggled a bit recently in all formats. 12 months ago if you said he should be dropped I’d have said you were crazy, now, reckon he needs to get off to a flyer at The Gabba - speed is down, not swinging it much, wrong side of 30.
34 year old who hasn’t played much this year and been poor when he has played, also been pretty underwhelming in his international career to date as well.
Could not have worded that any better
Neville?
I like him and remember thinking he was going to be the next big thing years ago but it just never happened, he would be a very uninspiring pick. Would rather persist with Head, Usman or Wade to be honest
Your weird death riding of Harris aside, do you reckon England will line up with Broad and Anderson for the 1st test? They might as well just go home now if they do.
I’m sorry how much of both have you watched? Especially in the shield?
I’m not saying he should be in the Test squad but he has earnt his chance to push for selection via the A side for this series
My point about Henriques is that since being dropped from the Test side he has performed well in the Shield which is evident by his selection for the South African tour. Now all of a sudden with barely any red ball cricket played between he isn’t even selected in the A side
