Never said I would not pick him again, but he was very ordinary and I am yet to see that his technical flaws have been erased. In fact his dismissal in the 1st innings of the Australia A game showed that flaw again. He needs to work on these flaws, i.e. not moving his feet outside off, and the short ball.
Crap. The ball hit the seam and went away enough to catch the edge. Same as to Khawaja. It was a typical green top wicket. It says nothing about the batsman other than his luck wasn't in that day.
As for England he got a 36 in the First Test so hardly a failure, Australia didn't bat twice. In the second test Flintoff and Anderson picked him up early, but he was hardly Robinson Crusoe in that match. Ponting got 2 and 38, North got 0 and 6, Clarke only got 1 in the first dig and Kat only got 6 in the second. As plenty of people have pointed out Hughes was the sacrificial lamb to get Watson in for his bowling to offer another option after Johnson bowled pathetically going for 6 an over.
In his 13 test innings Hughes has only been out under 20 4 times. He can look unorthodox but that is very different to a technical flaw. He makes more runs than almost anyone else in FC cricket and Hilditch should forever be condemned for hanging him out to dry.
