Damien Martyn from WA has been dropped...

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....I see this is a good omen for the weekend.

Go Swannies.

― chrisso (chrisso), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 05:33 (twenty years ago)

Not a real bad sign for the cricket team either.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

I presume we are talking about the Australian side here? No doubt they are making room for another NSW player!!

― Lucy Lion (Lucy Lion), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 08:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah the current team is full of them Chimp Chick LOL. And wouldn't it be silly to pick more players from the team that won the domestic championship last season? Sheer lunacy.

Your comment is about two years out of date at least. Like Dean Jones before him, Marto has found new ways to get out and deserved to be dropped.

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 20:57 (twenty years ago)

How the hell does hayden survive??? he's lost everything and all that is left is slogging or boring bogged-down selfish batting ala the last test.

― jsa, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

Jase, I think the answer is 'just', and unless he pulls his finger out not for a whole lot longer. A few blokes have just copped some Test-class bowling for the first time in a squillion years and it didn't half show.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

Hayden has been dropped from the one day side. It is a shame for Marto because he wasn't alone during the Ashes.

― Christina, Wednesday, 21 September 2005 03:55 (twenty years ago)

It's yet another of those situations where everybody wants somebody to get dropped but it has to be somebody from some other state.

If the selectors drop one bloke, they're scapegoat-hunting. If they dump three, they're panicking. They leave the side intact, they're either complacent or don't like admitting they're wrong.

― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

Never been the biggest Marto fan but I reckon he's been a little bit hard done by here. Having said that his lax running at Edgbaston, poor fielding and generally unconvincing play did him no favours. Even with the two lbws where he was dudded he'd feathered one through to the 'keeper without being given out beforehand.

― ojitarian (ojitarian), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

Disagree ojit. No concentration and some soft dismissals that would have made Mark Waugh blush. Hayden copped plenty and rightfully so but at least he put his head down and played a substantial innings, even if it was too late. Katich is another who probably should be under the gun before Marto but at least the Kat played a couple of half decent knocks.

regards,

REB

― Rik E Boy (Rik E Boy), Wednesday, 21 September 2005 21:04 (twenty years ago)

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