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If you were an Australian Selector, what would you do if...

Now I think this is the right place to do this, please tell me if it isn't.

Pretty simple. If you were an Australian Selector, and one of these theoretical situations arise what would you do?

Once one topic gets either boring, run out of ideas or off topic someone should post a new situation. I always have ideas.
 
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If you were an Australian Selector, what would you do if Ricky Ponting retires tomorrow?

Who would you bring into the side for him, and who becomes captain?
 
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In ODI Ferguson replaces Ponting at 3. Clarke is captain.

In Tests I think we'd be stuffed. Hodge is too old, D Hussey hasn't proven himself, Ferguson isn't ready for tests, who is ready? Clarke is captain.

North at 3?
Watson? Bring back Hughes and place Watson at 3?

ODI line-up:
Haddin
Watson
Ferguson
Clarke
White
M Hussey
Hopes
Johnson
Lee
Hauritz
Siddle

Tests:
Hughes
Katich
Watson
Clarke
M Hussey
North
Haddin
Johnson
Lee
Siddle
Hilfenhaus
 
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In the ODI side of yours, who replaces Ferguson as he is stepping in for Ponting? Is it White?

I also don't like the idea of Clarke as captain for the ODIs. I really don't think he should be playing at all, but that's not part of the question.

really i would like to see Marsh come back. I am not sure of his injury status and history, but I really enjoyed him playing. In my theoretical team I would have him opening with Haddin with watson coming in third. If Haddin faulters opening then I would have Hopes open the batting with Marsh.

With Tests, I agree, pretty much screwed.

Is there anything wrong with letting Hodge play for a little while? I know it's probably wrong to do but i just seems right. And by the time he is gone, who knows, a great youngster might have shown his face.

I would probably go with D. Hussey. I think he has proven himself enough for the trial. I would put Clarke or Hussey, depending on who wants to go their, who is in form and what the make up of the rest of the team at No.3.
 
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If Ponting retires anyone time we are stuffed.

Ferguson is a talented player, but his not ready to take the number 3 position in any form of the game at international level. He averages 35 at FC level and he plays most of his cricket on the billard table that is the Adelaide Oval.

As far as im concerned, at this point in time, both our test and ODI fortunes are heavily reliant on Ponting and how many runs he gets.

If he were to retire I'd put White at three in the ODI format and in the test format i'd look at putting Clarke up to 3 and maybe drafting D. Hussey into the middle order.

Clarke would be captain.
 
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They both seem like good ideas to me.

Need more people.
 
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LIONS then DAYLIGHT;368488 said:
If Ponting retires anyone time we are stuffed.

Ferguson is a talented player, but his not ready to take the number 3 position in any form of the game at international level.
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Yeah have to put someone experienced at 3 and close to your best batsman. Even Ponting was put there too early in his career which led too him being dropped.
 
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What about Hussey for ODI no.3.

He's good enough at test level (not taking into account form), but what about ODIs?

I know he is the best finisher we have had since Bevan, and that would be a pretty bad thing to lose at no.6, but he is close enough to Ponting when it comes to top of the order ODI batting, as shown when he has batted up there before.
 
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Kram81;368491 said:
Yeah have to put someone experienced at 3 and close to your best batsman. Even Ponting was put there too early in his career which led too him being dropped.
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Yeah but that was one of the worst decisions ever made by the selectors.

He scored 88 against a very good West Indies attack at 3 @ the Gabba in 95/96 before he was dropped a few innings later, for reasons only known to the selectors.

Ponting then went back to number 6 until mid 2001, where he never really found his niche, he moved up to #3 when Slater was dropped and Langer was promoted, and has been there ever since.

The fact he wasnt there earlier had nothing to do with ability, he should have been at 3 to begin with.
 
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LIONS then DAYLIGHT;368495 said:
Yeah but that was one of the worst decisions ever made by the selectors.

He scored 88 against a very good West Indies attack at 3 @ the Gabba in 95/96 before he was dropped a few innings later, for reasons only known to the selectors.

Ponting then went back to number 6 until mid 2001, where he never really found his niche, he moved up to #3 when Slater was dropped and Langer was promoted, and has been there ever since.

The fact he wasnt there earlier had nothing to do with ability, he should have been at 3 to begin with.
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The thing with that was, is that he can't just slot into three when there is someone else better for the job. Yes he may have been better, but Langer was pretty devastating at the time and he deserved the spot. He just had to wait for the spot to really come up.

I am a promoter of having your BEST batsman at three, unless they are opening. Hussey fills that roll for me.
 
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LIONS then DAYLIGHT;368495 said:
Yeah but that was one of the worst decisions ever made by the selectors.
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Yeah but at the time he pushed too hard at the ball early in his innings and edged it a lot. Once he improved this part of his game he became the great number 3 he is today, they probably shouldn't have dropped him at the time but just pushed him down the order.
 
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Seems as if we are getting a little off track.

New topic or still got more to say?
 
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Langer was an ordinary number 3, at the time he was like Tubby Taylor was in his last 2 or 3 years, he couldn't get a run, and would keep his spot by scoring a dirty 50 every 3rd tets to buy him more time.
 
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The thing is, who would know that Ponting would make that spot. He did really have to wait till the guy that had 'cemented' his spot (however he did it) moved on.

Number 3 sometimes is more then just a batting number, but a place that you earn. It is the most sought after batting position, simply because it generally means you are the best batsman on your team, especially if it is an Australian one.
 
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I think the solution for tests is to bring back Hughes, Watson down to 6 despite playing so well at the top of the order, Clarke to 3, Hussey and North stay at 4 and 5.

For one dayers, same again, Clarke to 3, and you have blokes like Voges, Marsh, D.Hussey, even Hughes who could have a crack at one day cricket.

Clarke should be captain, and for you who said he shouldn;t even be in the team, he was the best batsman we had last year by a long way, and he was our best bat in the Ashes series, so what could you possibly be basing that on?
 
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I wasn't saying Clarke shouldn't be in the team. He will be anyway, but he does seem like a liability in ODIs. He has never played well enough there to secure his spot in my own personal books.

Yes he scores and keeps his average up, but it doesn't convince me that there aren't better batsman out there then him for the spot.

I like your ideas though ants, it would be the way to go.
 
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Boris;368492 said:
What about Hussey for ODI no.3.

He's good enough at test level (not taking into account form), but what about ODIs?

I know he is the best finisher we have had since Bevan, and that would be a pretty bad thing to lose at no.6, but he is close enough to Ponting when it comes to top of the order ODI batting, as shown when he has batted up there before.
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Hussey looks good at no4 atm and I would be leaving him there, put White to no3 and Dussey into the side again at no5 or 6 with Ferguson, Clarke can open or not play as he cant bat any lower due to his low strike rate and I just feel that M Hussey is a big improvement at no4

In the test side, Clarke would need to take the challenge and bring in White to no5 or 6 below North
 
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schwab2clarkson;368748 said:
Make Michael Clarke skipper of all three teams and blood some youngsters.
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Hahah, that would be gold, give the captaincy to a bloke who doesnt deserve a game in T20 and would be very lucky to get a game in the 50 over game :D
 
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