Test Squad

Hmmmm, Bevo. Symonds instead of the kiddie. Interesting.

At least Punter will have more sense than to let Magoo near the ball on a run-chase. Hope Bix has tought him everything he needs to know about oranges and the cutting thereof . .

It's all under control taily. Who better than the Magilla to serve up juicy treats?

regards,

REB

What are they going to do?

Symonds or Martyn?
Warne or MacGill?
Two spinners or one?
If two spinners, Lee or Kaspo.

I'd play Symonds at 6 and mover Lehmann and Kato up and Martyn out. Ponting clearly wants Symonds in and there is no point selecting a batsman and then playing him at 8, so Marto must be out.

Two leg-spinners is unbalanced, so I'm afraid MacGill is probably out.
I'm not sure what they should do with Hogg. There are already quite a few part-time spinning options in the team, but playing three quicks might be a wasted player. Hard. NOntheless I think Kaspo deserves a spot ahead of Lee. He has totally out bowled him in the ODIs.

Hoggy is going home with the ODI team I read...

but agree with your points, powwow. No need for Lee as Williams could do a similar role, except more accurately

Agree with all of that, powwow - especially about Martyn and Blee. With Willo, Kasper, Dizzy and Warne as our main bowlers, and Roy, Boof and Fleas for backup, we have a very strong lineup - batting, bowling and fielding.

What a fielding side, in fact - Symonds, Ponting, Williams . . . Hayden and Warne in slips . . .
Pity it probably won't happen, though.

If they bring in Symonds and drop either Kato or Lehmann whilst keeping Martyn, the selectors have rocks in their head and could cost Australia the game or the series. To keep a bloke who is hopelessly out of form and has never been good at playing spin whilst dropping someone in form and good at playing spin would be utter maddness.

The current bunch of selectors have proven to be very good at picking players, but way too slow in dropping players. In retrospect the choice of Katich has proved rather inspired, but the Waughs, especially Mark were kept too long.

The greatest day of my life came when Clarke got dropped. Has anyone else noticed how much attention that pretty boy Clarke got for being dropped in comparison to Katich (who is a better player than Clarke)?