Mildly annoying that he's taken barely any wickets but seems to be getting away with it because he played badly as part of a winning team. If the rest of the side hadn't stepped up I'm 100% sure the entire Australian section of the board would now quite rightly be saying "WTF Hilfenhaus is useless get Bollinger in there ****ing selectors haven't a ****ing clue".
I'd like to introduce you to a certain Waqar Younis, who was indisputably the best around, by a long, long way, between '90/91 and '94/95.
18 months?
Try 3. The only poor performances from Gillespie and Kasprowicz pre-Ashes-2005 came during the New Zealand tour in February and March 2005.
Sometimes a player has developed a knack of getting above-the-norm players out.
Absolutely right!
No way - England were a clear no. 2 in 2005, and had enjoyed a pretty long period of success. All the talk leading up to it was that this was the team that might realistically challenge the Aussies.
obviously never heard of a guy called Curtley Ambrose, you once again missed my point however, i was saying that calling Brett Lee the best bowler in the world based on a handful of good tests stringed together was like calling Paul Reiffel the best bowler in the world based on his excellent returns in England in 1993
Gee whiz i'm sorry Dick, my wording must have been confusing, I should have said 'were down on form despite their obvious good form in the previous 18 months to that18 months?
The calendar-year of 2004 was the highlight of Gillespie's career and the only part of Kasprowicz's where he actually showed he could be a force at Test level. Saw McGrath pretty much at the peak of his powers too.
There was no way on Earth anyone should have remotely considered leaving either of them out of the 2005 party.
think we have a Wade lover, he has as much chance of going to england as Matthew Hayden
). And he was our best bowler for the preceding 2 years...so if he is able to prove his fitness he should atleast tour.I disagree, think they'll take him, particularly if he makes a few in the SS final.
people forget that, they also forget that the aussies didn't take it seriously, they were doing the 'yeah every ashes series we hear about this team that can beat us and it never happens'
haha so true, and totally agree about hilfy, there's some serious hilfy bashers on here
can't agree with this though, that makes 2 Wade lovers
He's the obvious candidate if they do take a reserve keeper IMO, Ronchi did seem to have the backup position nailed down however he kinda went off the rails this season. I reckon Wade, Manou and Hartley are all of roughly equal ability with the bat atm with Hartley just slightly better with the gloves, however Wade appears to be developing really quickly and his underage record and technique suggest to me he has it in him to be an excellent batsman, plus he's like 5 years younger than Hartley and 8 years younger than Manou....and it's likely to be more a development role as he'll play no international cricket unless Haddin gets hurt, and they do seem to be in a mood for taking punts on young players just lately (Hughes, Lachlan)....it's a no-brainer to me.
Agree tbh, will get the gig purely for the future. He's only 20 isn't he?
