Aust T20 side

George Bailey’s first match for Australia in any format will be as captain.

Hasn't happened since Dave Gregory...

embee wrote:

Blackadder wrote:Exactly, why carry someone who is clearly injured and out of form, and why the hell make them captain.

so we could shunt ShyT

Actually ShyT would have been a improvement (can't believe I am saying that ), at least he is just out of form.

If we are going to have a non-batting captain, why not ask TGM to make a comeback?

Farkin' sage. Unfortch, as AB mentioned on Inside BJ last night, Warnie had made himself unavailable.

It'd be pretty funny but, if TGM and Hogggggyyyyyyyy!!! both went to the T20 World Cup and we smashed everyone with 2 40+ year olds in the side.

Hogg's selection shows the Aus selectors are committed to looking to the future.....

My view is, so what if he's been taking wickets, he announced his international retirement four years ago and Aus should move on. I wonder how much younger spinners like O'Keefe (who hasn't done anything wrong) feel about Hogg's selection.

On this evidence, how far away are Warne and MacGill from an Aus call up??

Kerry O'Keefe is over the hill.

And I thought David Warner had been anointed as Clarke's successor? Bailey to make his international debut as a captain??? Strange.

Henry wrote:And I thought David Warner had been anointed as Clarke's successor?

He's too busy reinventing Test cricket, Pop Tarts, breathing and 'doing the hustle'.

It's a novelty game so they make novelty selections. Why would anyone GAF? It's not like a T20 player is going to go on and be picked for tests



Is it?

Aus have yet to get it right with their T20 skipper. Ponting, other than his initial innnings of 98* v Snoozies, was rubbish. Clarke got so bad with the bat that he didn't put the pads on in the latter stages of the T20 WC in the Windies. And ShyT was, well, just Shyte.

I expect George Bailey to follow the pattern.

S in quaint moment of sagacity...T20 is the fairy floss giveaway at the circus...of course Bails will fail ....who gives a rats?

Didn't Aus talk about using T20 as the first path towards test cricket?

Talk about it ...FFS we've already got two T20 sparklers in the Baggy Green ...

skully wrote:Aus have yet to get it right with their T20 skipper. Ponting, other than his initial innnings of 98* v Snoozies, was rubbish. Clarke got so bad with the bat that he didn't put the pads on in the latter stages of the T20 WC in the Windies. And ShyT was, well, just Shyte.

I expect George Bailey to follow the pattern.

George will do ok. While he did'nt have a great Big Bash, his overall T20 average is quite acceptable.

Big Dog wrote:

George will do ok.

Happy to agree with you BD. Further, I'm happy that Clarke isn't wasting energy where someone else will do ust as well.