Watson - Love him or hate him?

[LIONS then DAYLIGHT]

Re: Who will win the Allan Border Medal?

I'm not sure that using the example of a lost series shows the selectors were right with their squad selection or that any of those journos were wrong...

That is a funny line though at the top of your post

The one thing I would like to know, who in the current Australian team is going to make the big scores? Ponting and Hussey are approaching the end of their careers and neither of Australias opener look capable of it. A career opener is probably more likely to be able to make big scores reguarly as Hayden and Langer used to than a bloke who always batted in the middle order

It does raise the question, what is better at opener, 2 players average 50, one by reguarly making 50, the other by a few low scores surrounded by some really big ones as well and can a team have a succesful opening partnership when both are the same?

Bringing Watson into the side as an opener so far as proven to be a great decision, credit has to go to Ponting and the selectors for that. Our side has been greatly improved by Watson's presence.

The original critisicm of the squad based around the lack of a so called reserve batsmen. Watson has proven that he is more then capable of being a specialist batsmen. So that point has been clrealy debunked.

Jacques wasn't fit for the Ashes, which leaves Rogers, and the selectors decided to pick Watson over Rogers for the reserve batsmen. Watson got his chance and took it, Rogers may feel pissed off, but that is the way it goes.

The selectors made the right call, a brave call based on judgement rather then hard statistics.

We have plenty of players who can score big, don't you worry about that.