Phil Hughes - When do we drop him?

[AlwaysGreen]

8569 runs at 49.53 with 26 centuries all for a non losing cause?

A fighter who puts in for his team every match?

I'll take that.

 

[Red&BlackBear]

I also don't like openers captaining. As bad as bowlers captaining.

Doesn't that rule out Hughes then? After all he is an opener mascarading as a first drop. You yourself have stated countless times of how he should replace Cowan.

AG said it though, Khawaja isn't bad. He is smarter than Hughes and Warner combined.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Not to mention that Tubby Taylor was one of the best captains we've had R&B. And he was...........an opener.

 

[Red&BlackBear]

Smith and Strauss/Cook, three openers who captain. The first two tasted success and led their countries to the number 1 in the world and Cook, well isn't he leading and playing fine? I don't think Gayle was a bad captain either just didn't have the cattle.

 

[Earl]

Mark Taylor wasn't bad either

 

[Red Bear]

Neither Warner or Hughes are captaincy material. Warner is as dumb as a chimp and has far too abrasive a personality to be a leader. A great team man and possibly a VC but not a captain.

Hughes doesn't have the right personality either. The fact that he has to work so hard on getting his game right every innings rules him out for mine, as well as the fact he seems the quiet type.

There is a definite leadership vacuum below Clarke. The fact that a pretty boy with a record like The Struggler is next in line is evidence enough of that. The best candidate out of anyone who has represented Australia recently is Khawaja who is intelligent, by all accounts very popular with his fellow players and has a good cricket brain.

Khawaja is pretty quiet and reserved though also.

Agreed, there isnt much in the way of leadership around state cricket at present. White is a decent captain, Bailey probably is as well, but neither are good enough cricketers. None of the young cricketers coming through scream captaincy either, except possibly S Smith, but he's got a lot to work on before being considered for the longer form of the game again

 

[Red&BlackBear]

Knowing the selectors they'll pick Moises Henriques as our next skipper. I think he has captained NSW before.

 

[Twizzle]

or Steve Smith

 

[Wato]

Wade could be a smokey considering he should have established himself in the side for a few years by the time Clarke retires. Hughes is very unlikely but Warner(has captained the Thunder in the past) and Khawaja would be the other main candidates.

 

[BunniesMan]

Neither Warner or Hughes are captaincy material. Warner is as dumb as a chimp and has far too abrasive a personality to be a leader. A great team man and possibly a VC but not a captain.

Hughes doesn't have the right personality either. The fact that he has to work so hard on getting his game right every innings rules him out for mine, as well as the fact he seems the quiet type.

There is a definite leadership vacuum below Clarke. The fact that a pretty boy with a record like The Struggler is next in line is evidence enough of that. The best candidate out of anyone who has represented Australia recently is Khawaja who is intelligent, by all accounts very popular with his fellow players and has a good cricket brain.

Because everything came so easily to Steve Waugh? He struggled in his early days, for a long time he looked like the ugly duckling next to his brother. And after all that IMO he is the gold standard when looking for the next captain. You want someone in the Steve Waugh mould.

If Hughes does what I think he will in the next 12-18 months, makes the #3 spot his own and becomes the dependable and successful anchor of our batting order, he'll be the one they groom.

@ everyone dismissing Hughes. When Clarke was Hughes' age (2005) he was even further from the captaincy. You'd have been laughed out of the room if you suggested back then that this blonde dyed flashy kid would be the next captain.

I don't think Watson will last as long as Clarke. So when Watson retires I predict Hughes will be made VC.

 

[Mr Angry]

lol @ Watson as captain, opening batter and bowler.

 

[BunniesMan]

lol @ Watson as captain, opening batter and bowler.

Watson should be none of those things but I bet if you asked him he'd want all 3.

 

[Earl]

You could imagine Shane Watson captaining his junior side as a kid. Would have opened the batting, opened the bowling and bowled his 5 straight and then would have kept for the rest of the game

 

[AlwaysGreen]

And crying when being given out.

 

[El Diablo]

Get rid of this hack asap

 

[BunniesMan]

lol @ ED in troll mode.

 

[The Joker]

lol @ BM in deformed anal discharge mode

 

[Horrie Is God]

There is no coming back from getting the arse 3 times from the Australian cricket test team..

 

[BunniesMan]

Hughes out for 74 off 48. When it rains it pours. The biggest talent in Australian domestic cricket is scoring runs in every form of the game. He is a genuine chance to play all 3 forms of the game for Australia by the end of the summer. Who would have picked that even 3 months ago.

What a call by me. Looks like I'm being proven right.

As Mike Hussey begins a summer goodbye, Hughes is destined to become Australia's new "Mr Cricket" in 2013 -- integral to Australia's Test hopes in India, then England and a pivotal limited-overs pacesetter.

Hughes, 24, will earn promotion to Cricket Australia's 17-man contract list, which included retiring Ricky Ponting and Hussey among just five specialist batsmen for 2012-13.

Annual CA base deals are worth $230,000, but a chosen few playing all forms like opener David Warner and now keeper Matthew Wade can rake in minimum $1m deals.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...sseys-retirement/story-e6frey50-1226545419765

The Phil Hughes era is upon us. A lot of our hopes both in the short and long term depend on Hughes.

Everyone loves to have a laugh at me when I'm wrong. But sometimes I'm right too. I was proven right when I said he'd be the one to replace Ponting. I was proven right (or am about to be) when I said he'll play all 3 forms for Australia.

My next prediction:

Hughes to have an excellent 2013 in all forms of the game for Australia which will firmly make him Michael Clarkes designated successor as our next captain by the end of the 13-14 Summer.

 

[Mr Angry]

Would rather see him playing shield, county and tests, and then perhaps some other forms if time permit. Follow the Clarke path, more long innings than slogging.