Shaun Marsh, an international career finished?

[NZTailender]

It's almost as if they wanted the whole debacle to unravel than cover it up. Woeful.

 

[Flem274*]

Nevill failed quite a lot in the exact situations you described (ie. 4/100-200). It was probably right to drop him tbh.

Burns shouldn't have dropped at that time though. Ironically the result of most of the times Burns has been dropped has helped him protect his stats quite well, as it's led to him playing most of his Tests at home on roads, against crap bowling, and being dropped when Aus have a tough series or tour.



This is why you can't compare players from different countries. Australia, through their own fault tbf, play much less against weaker teams than anyone else.

Aus get plenty of west indies and sri lankan buffets, not to mention some indian attacks of the past

 

[TheJediBrah]

Honestly the person most at fault for the sandpaper thing is Lehmann IMO. We forget - or, at least, many people around the world rather conveniently forget - that ball tampering "scandals" are rather common and rather quickly forgotten, and usually dealt with quickly and quietly. But it was that idiotic press conference after the day which threw all the fuel on the fire, being exactly the wrong mixture of admitting that they'd flat out cheated, which made people angry, whilst also obviously lying about exactly how, which made people more angry.

Which brings me back to Lehmann. Wtf was he doing allowing his captain and rookie opener out there to take the heat? Man up and front up yourself ffs, and dead-bat any questions with "we're gonna get to the bottom with this, we're working with the ICC and match referee, not going to comment further until stuff is complete". From all accounts Sutherland et al were literally asleep at the time too.

A lot of blame has to go on the Aussie media. They're the ones who really blew it up and forced CA into the excessive action. Sure maybe it wouldn't have been as bad without the farcical presser and if it was just scratching the ball with fingernails or using lollies, but I still don't see the South African press for example, throwing their players under the bus like that.

Aus get plenty of west indies and sri lankan buffets, not to mention some indian attacks of the past

Overall, much less than most though.

Aus have only ever played 3 Tests against Zimbabwe