Archive for January, 2011
Dallas Hancock’s team
The team below belongs to Dallas Hancock.
Feel free to comment on his selections.
I’ll post new teams over the next few weeks, along with my own.
What is your team going to be??
A tentative prod
From The Ramble, following Australia’s victory in Perth.
Fresh warnings, despite the acclaim bestowed on the Aussies, must be heeded.
For the past two years Australia has been inconsistent, woeful one match, exceptional the next, a common feature of ageing and inexperienced teams. Four players, Hussey, Johnston, Harris and Watson, humbled England in Perth. The rest, aside from small bit-parts, hardly dictated the pace. Some, like Ponting and Clarke, are horribly out of form.
To succeed in Melbourne’s Boxing Day Test, the Aussies will have to perform as a team. While Johnson and Harris bowled superbly in Perth, it is a stretch to believe they will claim 18 wickets between them at the MCG. Ben Hilfenhaus and Peter Siddle must lift and actually take wickets. It isn’t enough to slow down the scoring and beat the bat occasionally. Similarly, if Hussey, Watson and Haddin fail with the bat, no one else can be trusted to score runs. None of the batsmen, aside from Hussey, Haddin and Watson, are averaging more than 23 for the series.
