South Africa in Australia - Page 109

The430king · 8 Jan 2009, 04:56

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Originally Posted by grapedo

If they bring in another specialist opener I doubt it will be Herschelle Gibbs unless he has an extremely good odi series.

I am sure Mckenzie will recapture some form back in South Africa though.

I think Mckenzie is in trouble. He is the only South African batsman out of form, and Prince will walk straight in, considering he is their vice captain. Surely they can't drop Duminy, the find of the series. The only thing is who opens. If Amla opens, Kallis won't bat at 3 because he should've done that 5 years ago, so it isn't as easy as moving everyone up one spot, so I think the logical choice is De Villiers. Surely they wouldn't throw Duminy in there, he is perfectly suited to number 5 or 6, and why throw him against the new ball in his 4th test match. We know one thing, they won't open with Morkel again. They may as well of thrown Ntini in there.

The430king · 8 Jan 2009, 04:57

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Originally Posted by tristo

Squads for 20/20 and one day series.

Really happy with the selection of Warner. If he gets onto one, he'll hit it onto Punt RD

grapedo · 8 Jan 2009, 07:09

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Originally Posted by The430king

I think Mckenzie is in trouble. He is the only South African batsman out of form, and Prince will walk straight in, considering he is their vice captain. Surely they can't drop Duminy, the find of the series. The only thing is who opens. If Amla opens, Kallis won't bat at 3 because he should've done that 5 years ago, so it isn't as easy as moving everyone up one spot, so I think the logical choice is De Villiers. Surely they wouldn't throw Duminy in there, he is perfectly suited to number 5 or 6, and why throw him against the new ball in his 4th test match. We know one thing, they won't open with Morkel again. They may as well of thrown Ntini in there.

I disagree.

Dumniy is a first class opener and De Villiers was not a good opener at test level anyway. He opened for three years and hit 1436 runs @ 36.82.

I would prefer to see Duminy who can adapt as he does open in first class or a new opener from South African domestic cricket.

One that immediateley springs to mind is Andrew Puttick who has hit:
82 matches -5656 runs @ 42.52.

Jolldo87 · 8 Jan 2009, 07:12

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Originally Posted by grapedo

I disagree.

Dumniy is a first class opener and De Villiers was not a good opener at test level anyway. He opened for three years and hit 1436 runs @ 36.82.

I would prefer to see Duminy who can adapt as he does open in first class or a new opener from South African domestic cricket.

One that immediateley springs to mind is Andrew Puttick who has hit:
82 matches -5656 runs @ 42.52.

But if you bring in a new opener such as Andrew Puttick who is left out for Prince?

grapedo · 8 Jan 2009, 07:17

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Originally Posted by Jolldo87

But if you bring in a new opener such as Andrew Puttick who is left out for Prince?

Who knows.

Good point Jolldo in that case Mckenzie gets axed and Duminy opens the batting with Prince pushing to his familiar number 5 role and De Villiers pushing back to six where has been batting for a year now.

I personally would have know problems with this.