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Australian test selection 2019-2020

stephen

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Patterson had only played 3 first class innings since his half century in the shield final.
 

NUFAN

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What a sad indictment of Australian cricket that Peter Siddle has now been on more Ashes tours than Glen McGrath.
Who is to say this will be his last tour to the UK too. The gap is narrowing between Bradman, Freeman, Laver, Dawn and Siddle.
 

Howe_zat

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Of course you pick Siddle in a squad that size. It's not contestable. His record in England embarrasses everyone else in the team, with the exception of Hazlewood -

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Player		Wickets	Average
Siddle		43	28.4
Starc		29	31.2
Hazlewood	16	25.6
Pattinson	7	43.9
Bird		2	62.5
In 2013 and 2015 alike I was hearing nothing but how amazing Starc and Pattinson were supposed to be and Siddle outbowled them comfortably, and he's still here winning the Championship for Essex. Don't be surprised when he's your best seamer in the series again.
 

Spikey

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as far as I can tell the Siddle hype is because he had a good test in 2015 which involved getting adam lyth out two times and some tail-enders
 

halba

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Pattinson didn’t play in 2015 and got injured in 2013.
This is the best XI right now for aus

Warner
Bancroft
Smith
Khawaja
Head/ M Marsh
Wade
Paine
Neser/Siddle
Pattinson
Lyon
Cummins



hazlewood out of form as is Starc(bowled woefully in the world cup SF and woeful in the intra squad match- hes inconsistent now in late career)

Pattinson and Neser, Siddle and Cummins were all destructive. They are threats to the paper thin eng batting especially Cummins and Pattinson.

These 4 will be rotated throughout the ashes, with possibly Hazlewood. Starc will be relegated to pro drinks carrier.
 
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GoodAreasShane

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Cummins batting behind Lyon has to take the cake for sheer absurdity, that just seems so completely bat**** insane to me
 

Spikey

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he batted poorly in the world cup and deserves to demoted. he is not in form.
 

GoodAreasShane

Cricketer Of The Year
But we have to give Garry the opportunity to go the whole ashes without being dismissed again. Promote him to 10 and he'll start thinking he's a proper batsman, which is usually when he gets out
 

Flem274*

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siddle is so unfairly maligned, especially when you have starc in the same team.

if he played during the mcwarne era he should cruise into the team ahead of brett lee.
 

social

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siddle is so unfairly maligned, especially when you have starc in the same team.

if he played during the mcwarne era he should cruise into the team ahead of brett lee.
No chance

Lee’ test average is inflated because his job was to blast people out with very little scoring protection as drying the runs up was left to others

Siddle is a good bowler but nothing more than a poor man’s dizzy
 

social

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Bancroft’s new age bs really annoys me

“Need to be true to myself”

No ****, just don’t take ****ing sandpaper onto the ground
 

Starfighter

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No chance

Lee’ test average is inflated because his job was to blast people out with very little scoring protection as drying the runs up was left to others

Siddle is a good bowler but nothing more than a poor man’s dizzy
Yeah, no, Lee got the new ball and to bowl to the tail ahead of Gillespie and still ended with the average he did. Good fast bowlers are accurate enough to blast people out without consistently bleeding runs.
 

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