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The 'unfairly shafted by Australian selectors' XI

BoyBrumby

Englishman
Didn't Quiney get three blobs in four test innings? & the other innings was a 9?

Not really making an unanswerable case for retention, IMHO.

I dunno about shafted, but arguably picking Steve Smith and Cam White as nominal specialist spinners wasn't really being fair to them.
 

Howe_zat

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Didn't Quiney get three blobs in four test innings? & the other innings was a 9?

Not really making an unanswerable case for retention, IMHO.

I dunno about shafted, but arguably picking Steve Smith and Cam White as nominal specialist spinners wasn't really being fair to them.
I think the unfairness is being picked solely as a disposable human shield for Hughes against the Saffers.
 

uvelocity

International Coach
Didn't Quiney get three blobs in four test innings? & the other innings was a 9?

Not really making an unanswerable case for retention, IMHO.

I dunno about shafted, but arguably picking Steve Smith and Cam White as nominal specialist spinners wasn't really being fair to them.
tbf it was an excellent nine. one of the best ever.
 

the big bambino

International Captain
To be even fairer it was a caught on the boundary 9. With a little more oomph and luck it could've been an out next ball poking it to slips 15.
 

Tangles

International Vice-Captain
Law and Lehman for sure. Would have had them in a heartbeat over Martyn. Now he should have been outcast after Sydney 94.

Not sure why Gillespie is on the list? Is there a feeling he was pushed out to early?
 

Red

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Gillespie was pretty much ****ed after the 2005 Ashes.

God he was good in his prime though.
 

social

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
After? He turned absolutely horrid just before the 2005 Ashes.
Saw him play against NZ at the beginning of the 2004/5 series and he had definitely lost the nip in his bowling

Reckon that he was completely stuffed from the 2004 tour to India and never recovered
 

Prince EWS

Global Moderator
Law and Lehman for sure. Would have had them in a heartbeat over Martyn. Now he should have been outcast after Sydney 94.

Not sure why Gillespie is on the list? Is there a feeling he was pushed out to early?
Pretty sure I'm the only one to have mentioned Gillespie, and it was a joke. I listed him as "3. Jason Gillespie" because he hit a double ton at 3 in his last Test and then got dropped.
 

Spikey

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John Benaud probably wasn't very good, but getting dropped for the next test during a test is pretty stiff.

worked though. dude went out and smashed a ton. and i just noticed chappell promoted him to first drop after the news broke
 
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Tangles

International Vice-Captain
Pretty sure I'm the only one to have mentioned Gillespie, and it was a joke. I listed him as "3. Jason Gillespie" because he hit a double ton at 3 in his last Test and then got dropped.
I missed the sarcasm. :dry:

I have to think that guys like Law, Lehmann and Bevan would walk into the current test team. Oh for a hot tub time machine to at least grab Law and drop him into the team at 4.
 

Midwinter

State Captain
The conspiracy theorists would like to think so.

One story is that he had been out of the test team for a while but was a surprise pick, not having much form in the leadup, for the game that was his last test. According to this version his selection was a setup to show that Australia was playing its part in stamping out chucking.

He has said that he wishes he was playing these days. No one except Brumby would give him a second look.
 

benchmark00

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Jones' poor record I'm India did he no favours tbf.

To my knowledge never made a century there.
 

Flametree

International 12th Man
Jeff Moss?

Nathan Hauritz may not have been a world-beater but he didn't deserve to be dropped after one bad tour of India, and nothing the replacements for him have done subsequently has changed that view.
 

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