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I'm like you, I expect the same 11 or even 12 to go, so the test team plus Faulkner and Pattinson, after that it gets tricky and after that it gets a little more involved, using the one day squad as those most likely to have a chance to perform at the highest level, one of Finch, Marsh or...

Honestly I'm having trouble understanding where you are coming from, just on the words written the last couple of replies can be two cheap shots in a row, the last one can easily be read as you being human but being unwilling to allow my human fallacy. I've got opinions and I'm willing to...

We all have biases for and against, what are yours? Or do you studiously have none?

Of course I'm just guessing, but it's a guess based on my experience as a junior and senior cricketer, and if you like an observer of people, leadership and sport which I have absolutely no qualification in. Surely that's what a public forum is about. I agree with Ponting's opinion but would...

I'd question the least talented, and suggest that they are very poorly performed and MC has inherited a lot of problems, but has to be judged on how he is responding to those problems, refusing to bat at 3 for example, his need for Brad Haddin in the team at all. How much of captaincy is man...

I'm just saying that runs at a lower level, on the flattest deck and the smallest ground in Australia, compared with runs vs India, in India, and my bias against Warner mean I want him out of the team as fast as possible. Also the Poms will bowl fast and short to Warner, who IMHO, is not a...

yeah I'm a Vic :), just saying that Finch has come a long way and has a better technique than Warner, bats the same way and if he isn't a nob should be played before Warner, mind you, if Maddinson or Silk are scoring runs and aren't nob's I'd play them before Warner too, anyone really...

Sorry Kram, all work places are tough, but the reality is that MC is the boss and as such he sets the tone for the entire team, from the very first one day game he captained where he was whistling at his players to get their attention, spoke volumes of his respect for his team mates. The proof...

Not so sure about Warner, runs in the Ryobi Cup at Nth Sydney and how they compare with runs at the international level, ..... maybe 50 %........ it all depends on how people perform at Shield level before the first test. I like the chances of both Finch and Maxwell, if they can only score runs...

Do you think he could?

Big call, Clarke would have to retire from test cricket to go with a young captain right now, if he will be in and out we risk the Chapell/Hughes debacle all over again. While I don't rate Clarke as a captain at all, his greatest flaw IMO, is his man management, which Bailey has in spades. If he...

We could do and have done a lot worse, he hasn't disgraced himself at any level. Clarke's increasing problems getting on the pitch mean we may well be looking for a captain a well as a batsman. If we get to that point, then the candidates, seem to be Watson and Haddin, for some reason Siddle is...

I hope the boy goes really well, but he has problems. A left arm orthodox, that doesn't have any variation and doesn't really rip the ball. As a batsman, his technique means, he can't control the ball hitting on the leg side off the backfoot. he will get filled in on a regular basis. I'm not...