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| World A-Team Selections 2007 World A Team Selection Threads for 2007 |
| View Poll Results: Final touches for the side. | |||
| Thornely/Heal |    | 0 | 0% |
| Thornely/Bailey |    | 0 | 0% |
| McDonald/Heal |    | 2 | 66.67% |
| McDonald/Bailey |    | 0 | 0% |
| Bailey/Heal |    | 0 | 0% |
| Thornely/McDonald |    | 1 | 33.33% |
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16-05-2007, 02:40 PM
in reply to Quagmire's post starting "Yes but are we selecting a batsman or a..." | ||||
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| McDonald is on the up and at what age did Thornley start playing state ?  |
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| I think at 23 or 24, my main question is are we looking for a batsman or a bowler? Thornely is a far better batsman so if we are looking for a batsman we should go with Thornely and if we are after another bowler we should go with McDonald or Magoffin. I just think that Watson has taken his McDonald position in the side.
__________________ Bill Ponsford - The only one who could play in Bradman’s company and make it a duet. |
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| Chris Rogers: open - Ave 50.20 first class cricket. Phil Jaques: open - Ave 56.00 first class cricket Dominic Thornely - Ave 42.65 first class cricket Marcus North - Ave 43.62 first class cricket Shane Watson - speaks for himself Adam Voges - 42.04 first class cricket Mitchell Johnson - a wicket every 8 and a bit overs Bailey - leggie Shaun Tait - speaks for himself Ben Hilfenhaus - 99 first class wickets in 21 matches. ????????????????????????? It goes without saying Tait and Hilfenhaus along with Watson walk in the side. Phil Jaques is as good an opening bat prospect as you can get, won't be long before he is in the Aussie national team. Baily gets it over Heal on account that he is a leggie, and should be given a chance to come good, no contest in the long run IMO.
__________________ Ern  Last edited by Ernest : 16-05-2007 at 10:27 PM. |
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| Bailey is Andrew Jenners (the spin doctors) prosept for great things, but everyone else has spoken with Heal making it into the side. Im a little biast because I don't rate offspinners except for Muralitharan who really is not an offspinner more like an allround spinner. Its funny because people are saying he has not done well enough in the Pura Cup but the great S.K Warne's record is well below par in Pura Cup. So you never know with legspinners and Bailey is rated highely by Jenner and is his work in progress. Warne - 46 mat, 161 wickets at 34.72, bb 7-100, 8x5wi, 1x10wm, sr 73.6, econ 2.82 - VIC At the moment I think that Rogers is ahead of Jaques because Rogers is a better replacement for Langer where Jaques is a brute like Hayden. No doubt Jaques and Rogers will be a powerful opening partership within 2 to 3 years. Watson wants Langers position but I don't think he is good enough to open in Test cricket.
__________________ Bill Ponsford - The only one who could play in Bradman’s company and make it a duet. Last edited by Quagmire : 16-05-2007 at 10:37 PM. |
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The last great England off spinner was Laker, there have until the 90's been good offie's, but not great. Heal may make it to the side - but unlike Bailey - he could never make another Warne.
__________________ Ern Last edited by Ernest : 16-05-2007 at 10:46 PM. |
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17-05-2007, 12:04 AM
in reply to Quagmire's post starting "I think at 23 or 24, my main question..." | ||||
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| I think McDonalds average suffered because he started playing first class cricket aged 21 compared to Thornley aged 24. But I will go along with Thornly's selection, being a player who deserves to be nominated allthough I personally hold McDonald slightly higher. |
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| It also the position where Thornely is a top 4 batsman and McDonald is a middle to lower order batsman. Thats one of the reasons, if Watson was not in the side McDonald would have had that position but I think that Thornely balances the side more. Chirs Rogers Phil Jaques Domanic Thornely Marcus North Adam Voges Shane Watson Luke Ronchi Mitchell Johnson Aaron Heal (I would have prefered Bailey but out voted) Shaun Tait Ben Hilfenhaus 12th Man - Andrew McDonald Bowling Line Up Shaun Tait Ben Hilfenhaus Mitchell Johnson Shane Watson Aaron Heal Part timers Marcus North Adam Voges
__________________ Bill Ponsford - The only one who could play in Bradman’s company and make it a duet. |
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17-05-2007, 03:20 AM
in reply to Quagmire's post starting "It also the position where Thornely is..." | ||||
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| No Victorian's in the Australia A team wonder what Bill Lawry, Shane Warne and Merv Hughes think ? |
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| Well concidering the Tasmania won it this season I think thats a bit strange that only Hilfenhaus got a position. Michael Di Venuto - 33 Tim Paine - 22 Michael Dighton - 31 Travis Birt - 25 George Bailey - 24 Daniel Marsh - 33 Sean Clingeleffer - 27 Luke Butterworth - 23 Damien Wright - 31 Adam Griffith - 29 Ben Hilfenhaus - 24 12th Man - Brendan Drew - 23
__________________ Bill Ponsford - The only one who could play in Bradman’s company and make it a duet. |
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| Like Victoria Tassy have a lot of players near good enough but just short. They obviously have a more even spread of players than some other states Tassy Birt and Clingeleffer both just fell short, White and Jewell likewise for the Vic's. |
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