Pity Mickey Arthur and Michael Clarke have stated Watson will bat at no3 in the West Indies tour. Rightly so as well. Watson will bowl but as a change bowler and not every innings. It is perfect having 3 openers especially with Warner a "rocks or diamonds" opener. Watson is perfect coming behind the two openers.
As for O'Keefe...he might want to get some wickets this season, the last 2 years I agree with you...he was better than Doherty or Michael "LOL" Beer! As for Lyon,I am far from convinced as I prefer a leggie, but he has my support!
Doherty is an excellent ODI bowler but like players such as Steve Smith, will never cement their position in the test team due to lack of variation.
Michael Beer.....:lol:Regarding the SELECTION of Beer, in my 16 yrs or so of watching cricket, his selection is DEFINITELY THE WORST I've seen and also one of the worst in the 135 yr history of test cricket. During the post-rebel tour era (1985-89), it wasn't Allan Border's fault that he had to deal with players like Greg Trimble when the large bulk of the national team defected to go to South Africa. However, when you look at all the good promising players we had go around at domestic level that season, Beer's selection was nothing short of laughable. Yeah, Shane Warne said that Beer is a good spinner, a selector said Beer bowled well at the WACA (despite the fact that none of the selectors had seen him bowl, and yet was picked at the SCG over the WACA)...and yet we played Russian Roulette, went ahead and picked him on hearsay. Fair dinkum, you'd have better odds of winning the Lotto than doing what Hilditch et al. did. The selectors may as well picked someone from this forum if that was their mentality. Beer's selection is akin to when Greg Smith got picked for the Newcastle Knights in 1999 (Knights fans like myself remember this just like yesterday). It also reminds me of that story in the U.S. where a man got jailed around 2004 after he managed to con everyone that he was a doctor, lawyer etc. He had absolutely no credentials or degrees, yet was turning up to work and consulting patients as a G.P one day at the surgery, and thenclients in a law firm the next day.
Beer could've salvaged some pride during that test though...but sealed his fate with what turned out to be that costly Alaistair Cook dismissal which was overturned due to a no ball. At such a crucial point in the test, the whole momentum changed and England just piled on the runs whilst we were left to rue that incident and had the confidence of a shot duck
