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***Official*** Australia in South Africa
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Jakester1288
International Regular
Agree. This is one of the dumbest selections I have seen in a long time (India feels like an age ago to me).
four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
Interesting that the Aussies won the last test, and then dropped half their bowlers.
Stop talking ****
Given the added advantages of his batting, MacDonald was NEVER going to be the one to miss out so stop bitching and try and mount an argument as to why Bollinger should've been selected before Hilfenhaus or North because that was the only option
Julian87
State Captain
Oh, but they have the "match winner" Mitchell Johnson. Even though Bollinger should have had Ntini long before if not for butter fingers in first slip.
Julian87
State Captain
If that truly is the case then I have grave doubts over the future of Australian cricket.
Langeveldt
Soutie
Damn, Aus win the toss and bat
irfan
State Captain
Yep. Bolly should be spewin right now, Ronnie McDonald is a bonafide benchwarmer - I see him sitting on a bench with his right leg crossed at Maccas every single time.
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
Yep.
Jakester1288
International Regular
Gah, it's McDonald. Get a clue!
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
You were spelling Chris Rogers as "Rodgers" before.
inbox24
International Debutant
What is regretful is that guys like Bichel, Lehmann, MacGill, Bevan etc, who would've all played 100 tests played in such a wonderful era, only got a few lean chances. Oh if only they had been playing now, we'd still have a pretty decent team, and guys like McDonald would be back in state or local cricket.
dontcloseyoureyes
BARNES OUT
Bevan should come out of retirement, would still gun it.
@ Haddin at 8.
Burgey
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Another false premise on your part, but we're used to that.
McDonald's added advantage with the bat? So you're picking him for his runs at 8? North will bat 6, presumably Haddin 7. Bollinger took 40 plus wickets last FC season, swings it as much as McDonald, bowls 15 kph faster and regularly knocks over top order players at FC level. To prefer a bloke who isn't as good a bowler because of his "batting advantages" at number 8 is frankly absurd.
I'm not of course surprised you'd advocate such a conservative position though, given the conservative **** you throw around in the politics thread.
I look forward to your wonderful riposte - "oh, but if wekre 6 down Ronnie will do a job". So what? His job if he's batting below 6 is to rake wickets. He may well do it and he's habdy, but the other bloke is more likely to do it.
Oooooooooh, they won the toss and batted - just like 95% of teams in the history of test cricket
Maybe, just friggin' maybe, the wicket isnt a minefield and therefore 4 pacemen werent justified
Jakester1288
International Regular
OMFG, so now Haddin is at 8! This is sad.
1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Neil McKenzie, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 AB de Villiers, 6 JP Duminy, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Morne Morkel, 9 Paul Harris, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Makhaya Ntini.
Above is the South African team, same as the last test.
1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 Neil McKenzie, 3 Hashim Amla, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 AB de Villiers, 6 JP Duminy, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Morne Morkel, 9 Paul Harris, 10 Dale Steyn, 11 Makhaya Ntini.
Above is the South African team, same as the last test.