Only justification to include Clark for this series was to allow him some proper international training with the rest of the squad. County stint for mine would have been far more effective. Really must wonder about the intelligence of our national selectors.
Yeah but if that was the case then why isn't he playing today
Clarke always looks relatively more in-form than Huss though, because he's a more stylish player. Hussey's vastly superior rotating of the strike that gives him such a better strike rate tends to pass people by when they're merely watching. Dropping your top-scoring batsman while retaining your worst simply because "one looks like he's about to peak and the other doesn't" is a pretty shocking selection policy, I'd say.
Concerns over match fitness? Prefer not to risk further injury? Really hard to even think of a reasonable justification. Happy that Laughlin gets another shot, possibly his last chance. Atleast until he backs his one season wonder up again.Yeah but if that was the case then why isn't he playing today
They need him badly.
The Pakistanis are feeding his strengths and he's thriving.
Wasn't actually advocating dropping him, tbh. Was just saying that to prove a point that the rationale for dropping Clarke is equally poor as the one I said for dropping someone like Hussey. In my side, they'd both be there.
