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Old 01-01-2011, 06:30 AM   #2567 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by BoyBrumby View Post
Quite. They make ours look look, well, competent.

Persisting (as seems likely with no other specialist bats in the XII) with Smith @ #6 is Quixotic and then retention of Beer over Hauritz (playing on his own track, taking wickets, scoring runs, etc) defies logic. It compounds the error of selecting Beer initially because (presumably) they won't say mea culpa and admit they ****ed up.
It's not just the dubious selections that seem to have been going on a while. They also provided us with such a lol-worthy start to the series with the 17-man squad. It looked chaotic.
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