1st Test: West Indies v Australia at Roseau on Jun 3-7, 2015

[TheParraboy]

Both tests v WI have been brought forward by 2 days

So the first test starts in 2 weeks time, on a Wednesday night (our time)

We play a 3 day warm up game, starting the 27th May also a Wednesday.


Australia Test Squad

Michael Clarke (c)
Steven Smith (vc)
Fawad Ahmed
Brad Haddin (wk)
Josh Hazlewood
Mitchell Johnson
Nathan Lyon
Mitchell Marsh
Shaun Marsh
Peter Nevill (wk)
Chris Rogers
Peter Siddle
Mitchell Starc
Adam Voges
David Warner
Shane Watson

 

[Twizzle]

god I hope we dont see Watson @ 3

Smudger @ 3 and Watson at 6 and probabaly Marsh @ 5, although I much rather MMarsh instead of Watson but the selectors have a boner for Watson

And Siddle :arrow:

 

[TheParraboy]

don't expect Neville, voges, ahmed get a test in the WIs (barring injuries or a 1st test loss)

youd imagine Rhino will be in for siddle or starc come the ashes

 

[Twizzle]

I cant see Stac being dropped as he is red hot atm in the shorter version of the game which has to eventually carry over to test match form.

 

[umina panther]

Rhino is the first bowler picked no doubt about it

 

[Red Bear]

don't expect Neville, voges, ahmed get a test in the WIs (barring injuries or a 1st test loss)

youd imagine Rhino will be in for siddle or starc come the ashes

Windies pitches have been dusty and crumbly in recent years so Ahmed getting a run would not shock me,

I cant see Stac being dropped as he is red hot atm in the shorter version of the game which has to eventually carry over to test match form.

Meh. He's always been a good one day bowler and always bowled with no control or brains in test cricket.

I would like to see
Warner
Rogers
Smith
Clarke
Voges
Watson/Marsh
Nevill
Johnson
Starc/Ahmed
Lyon
Hazlewood

from the squad that is over there. But I suspect if they choose Ahmed then Hazlewood will be the one to miss out, obviously Bad Hands will play. I think they'll go Voges and Watson but they may be inclined to pick M Marsh instead of/as well as Watson if they play Ahmed, and I suspect Shaun Marsh will be there for Voges

 

[TheParraboy]

Windies pitches have been dusty and crumbly in recent years so Ahmed getting a run would not shock me,

True

You'd imagine Mitch Marsh must play then, to be the 3rd seamer

Of course Sunshine can roll them over, but he is getting on a bit, needs to score runs if he is gonna be in the top batting order (how often has that broken record been played?)

 

[Twizzle]

as long as its instead of Lyon, I agree

Lyon could not win us a test match on an Adelaide pitch turning sideways last summer

 

[TheParraboy]

Im pretty sure they will play Lyon, or both spinners

feel for SOK though, maybe for the ashes? (wishfull thinking)

 

[Red Bear]

as long as its instead of Lyon, I agree

Lyon could not win us a test match on an Adelaide pitch turning sideways last summer

...he did

 

[Red Bear]

Im pretty sure they will play Lyon, or both spinners

feel for SOK though, maybe for the ashes? (wishfull thinking)

this is basically the Ashes squad except for Harris, barring any other injuries.

With a few playing county cricket/a-tours so plenty involved in first class cricket should something go wrong

 

[Twizzle]

as you were, SGC

 

[Twizzle]

Team for warm up game without the IPL payers

WICB President's XI v Australian XI Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, Antigua, May 27 - 29

Australia XI: Chris Rogers, Shaun Marsh, Michael Clarke, Adam Voges, Mitchell Marsh, Brad Haddin (wk), Peter Nevill, Peter Siddle, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood, Fawad Ahmed

WICB President's XI (13-man squad): Leon Johnson (c), Carlos Brathwaite (vc), Sharmarh Brooks, Rajindra Chandrika, Roston Chase, Miguel Cummins, Jason Dawes, Shane Dowrich, Imran Khan, Marquino Mindley, Jason Mohammed, Tyrone Theophile, Jomel Warrican

http://www.cricket.com.au/news/mich...alia-xi-for-west-indies-tour-match/2015-05-24

 

[TheParraboy]

Be interesting to know if this side is one of the oldest we have fielded

8 players turning 30 or well over 30 years of age this year.

lyon, m marsh and hazlewood excluded

 

[vvvrulz]

Hearing noises that Chanderpaul is set to be dropped.

Madness.

 

[Twizzle]

More than noises, he is not in the squad.

 

[Red Bear]

Hearing noises that Chanderpaul is set to be dropped.

Madness.

183 runs in his last 11 innings and he is 40. Probably the right call ignoring sentiment, but a shame that this is how it ends for one of the greats.

Still been in better form than Haddin

 

[Twizzle]

did Haddin run over your dog ?

 

[Ibleedblue]

This series should be a complete walk over, if we don't win the 2 tests convincingly that would be a failure.

 

[Red Bear]

did Haddin run over your dog ?

It just shocks that, despite being an average keeper, being 37 and having scored about 200 runs across his last 9 tests he's able to dictate his place in the team. Since he came back in the side he's had one great series and otherwise been mediocre as all hell. He can say oh well this will be my last overseas tour, in the knowledge he's basically undroppable.

And the way his media buddies talk about every catch he takes (and ignore the drops, and the byes and so on), say he's still clearly the best available (he is not) etc.

And he's been a very good player, but he's not getting better by any means, and is hardly the sort of great that should be able to dictate his own farewell.