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Test (Early) Sri Lanka tour squad predictions
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You still need reserves though.
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Not arguable at all. Clear No.3 offie in the country.
Call me old fashioned but we might want to see the deck before we select the team.
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I like the idea of using different players in each test.
1st Test
1 Head
2 Konstas
3 Labuschagne
4 Smith
5 McSweeney
6 Webster
7 Carey
8 Starc
9 Lyon
10 Kuhnemann
11 Boland
2 main spinners & 4 part-time spinners should be plenty.
2nd test swap Lyon for Murphy as both needed to bowl plenty of overs. Would also bring in Connolly in the 2nd test.
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There's some real pillock posts in this thread.
Sure, we hold every bilateral trophy, we're the world champs, we run the entire world.
But flogs are BORED and want to make wholesale changes for no reason at all.
We need a cricket board for people that aren't deadshits. A discussion forum of the gentleman's game should be the best of BF when we're talking test cricket, there are too many impatient flogs who have no concept of how hard cricket is, how good you have to be to get this far, and how you deserve every opportunity that you've earned.
Sure, we hold every bilateral trophy, we're the world champs, we run the entire world.
But flogs are BORED and want to make wholesale changes for no reason at all.
We need a cricket board for people that aren't deadshits. A discussion forum of the gentleman's game should be the best of BF when we're talking test cricket, there are too many impatient flogs who have no concept of how hard cricket is, how good you have to be to get this far, and how you deserve every opportunity that you've earned.
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Given we have already made the ICC World Championship & needing to turnover our team over the next couple of years... we should be using it as an opportunity to try new players.
We should absolutely be giving Murphy more opportunities, given we may need him to takeover Lyon soon, so imo should get at least 1 test.
Also, Konstas not Khawaja is the future, so should play at least 1 test to appreciate subcontinent conditions.
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I said at the time Marsh should have been replaced by Webster for the 2nd Adelaide Test, given he couldn't bowl.
The selectors waited til the final test. Had they failed to make that change, we likely would have drawn the series. Bumrah getting injured may have saved us too.
The big issue with continuing with Marsh is it put an extra workload on the other bowlers. Hazelwood broke down & Starc struggled towards the end too.
Yes we may have won the series, but we got a little lucky & by no means did the selectors get everything right.
We have a very old team & we need to make changes over the next couple of years & this tour is a great opportunity to try some new things.
I was talking about Connelly, as was Tugga.K
Swepson really went to that next level when he barely played a game for 2 years to run gloves
Where did you pull Swepson from troll?
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ummm why ?
they are there for literally 2 weeks.
whatever XI they play in the 1st test, they'll run with again - unless injury or an admission that we got the XI wrong in the first test.
Cooper Connolly looks like a caveman we've teleported to the future.
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They may not have gotten everything right but i think they did a solid job. Made the tough but correct choice with Konstas before the MCG. Probably should have pulled the trigger earlier with Webster but did it in the end.
Saying we were a little lucky is interesting. We were probably better weather away from a 4-1 series win despite losing 4 of the 5 tosses.
Tail looks bloody shaky now that Starc is an average bat
Starc
Lyon
Murphy
Kuhnemann
or if we play 2 seamers
Starc
Lyon
Boland
Kuhnemann
Don't particularly like how bad the tail is when we are prone to collapses in spinning conditions, can't really do much about it though
Starc
Lyon
Murphy
Kuhnemann
or if we play 2 seamers
Starc
Lyon
Boland
Kuhnemann
Don't particularly like how bad the tail is when we are prone to collapses in spinning conditions, can't really do much about it though
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