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The squad has been announced.

Apart from Abbott, I think they've got it pretty right.

Australia squad for Sri Lanka Tests: Steve Smith (c), Sean Abbott, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cooper Connolly, Travis Head (vc), Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Sam Konstas, Matt Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Nathan McSweeney, Todd Murphy, Mitchell Starc, Beau Webster
 
The night he got that 100 at Leeds was one of my favourite nights watching sport ever. Was our best bat last summer, including playing a key role in the second test win in NZ. Didn't finish on a high but I can't cop that his run in the test side since he came back in wasn't a success.
 
The night he got that 100 at Leeds was one of my favourite nights watching sport ever. Was our best bat last summer, including playing a key role in the second test win in NZ. Didn't finish on a high but I can't cop that his run in the test side since he came back in wasn't a success.
Unfortunately he'll be remembered as a great bloke who wasn't up to standard.

A batting average sub 29 and bowling average above 40 paints a fairly bleak overall picture.

Frustrating thing? Just like his brother, had the potential to be much better.
 

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At least, he got a chance to come back and he did pretty well, apart from India of course.
He missed a fair bit of cricket earlier in the season when he went on paternity leave, which I don't think helped.

Was great to see him win the AB medal.

Has a role to play in white ball stuff going forward but would want to get some runs soon.
 
Who does Abbott have compromising photos of at CA? How the bloke keeps getting selected in these squads is bloody mystifying.

Richardson
Morris
O’Neill
Bartlett
Johnson

Any of the above should be considered ahead of him.
This series is a free hit, too, now we've qualified for the WTC final. So we can take players and develop them for the future.

That means Inglis, McSweeney and Connolly over Handscomb and Maxwell. But it should also mean one of the bowlers in your list over Abbott.
 
The squad has been announced.

Apart from Abbott, I think they've got it pretty right.

Australia squad for Sri Lanka Tests: Steve Smith (c), Sean Abbott, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cooper Connolly, Travis Head (vc), Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Sam Konstas, Matt Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Nathan McSweeney, Todd Murphy, Mitchell Starc, Beau Webster
Bit of a shame that Richardson and Rocchicioli missed out.

But Sri Lanka can be a graveyard for fast bowlers, so I'm not sure it's the place you want to be reintroducing someone after injury. Also, Todd Murphy did well in India, and offers a different (flatter, skiddier) trajectory to the other finger spinners, so he could offer a point of variation if they choose to go with 3 spinners.

Mitchell Swepson also stiff to miss out in favour of Kuhnemann. Figures of 8/192 in his two Sri Lanka tests, and his other tests were in Pakistan, on roads, whereas Kuhnemann got a chance on Indian dustbowls.
 
Bit of a shame that Richardson and Rocchicioli missed out.

But Sri Lanka can be a graveyard for fast bowlers, so I'm not sure it's the place you want to be reintroducing someone after injury. Also, Todd Murphy did well in India, and offers a different (flatter, skiddier) trajectory to the other finger spinners, so he could offer a point of variation if they choose to go with 3 spinners.

Mitchell Swepson also stiff to miss out in favour of Kuhnemann. Figures of 8/192 in his two Sri Lanka tests, and his other tests were in Pakistan, on roads, whereas Kuhnemann got a chance on Indian dustbowls.

Glad someone mentioned Rocky. He's comprehensively outbowled Murphy and Kuhnemann the last 2 Shield seasons. I suppose the latter offers a left arm option but since he toured India I've barely heard from him.

Gotta laugh at the size of the squad. 16 for a 2 test tour. The selectors may as well say "we've got NFI who we want".
 

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