Son Of Coco said:
Not another one of these posts. Continuous talk about bias one way or another is getting ridiculous! We can all spit the dummy when a player from our state doesn't get picked, but after a while it gets a bit tiresome....
For the most useless selectors in the world, our team is going pretty well...in a fortnight cue the complaints from the QLD sector when Hauritz gets dropped for the next test in Brisbane.
That isn't going to happen from me. I don't know where people get this idea that I am biased towards Queensland selections. I mean yes, I get bitter when (and please take not of my next phrase in bold) quality,
consistent Qld performers get overlooked by other not so consisent players get selected ahead of them. I am by no means advocating that there should be 11 Qlders playing for the national team, that is just ridiculous because there are not 11 test quality players in the first 11 for Qld. For God sake, I can see the value of Gillespie, Langer, Martyn, McGrath and Gilchrist being in the side. But when these quality players get overlooked for other inexperienced or less qualified players continually it starts to get a bit tiresome.
I am not going to be like Age and praise the credentials of every player from my state playing 1st to 6th grade cricket. For God sake, Perren, Hopes, Nye and Noffke really don't have a place in a first class team, they are just lucky they have performed well and the opposition hasn't been that strong, they will soon get found out (although Hopes looks like he has improved a fair bit this season).
I am not going to suggest that Hauritz should stay in the side ahead of Warne of MacGill. He is not the best or 2nd best spinner in the country and is lucky Warne didn't break his finger two days earlier, because I can assure yout the Australian selectors would have been contacting Richard Branson to get one of those really fast planes (I think they're concords) to fly MacGill over. All I hope for is that Hauritz bowls extremely well in the second innings to keep his name on the selection table, of both the Australian and the Queensland selectors and that it will give him confidence for the rest of the season.