If Hughes is dropped won't this be the third time he will have been axed fm the side after being dropped after the 2009 ashes then recalled during the 2010-11 ashes and playing through until the the Sri Lankan or South African tours of 2011 before being dropped again and then his current stint. It's hard to see any batsmen coming back from tht considering all those stint were at least 5-6 or more test matches, it's not like he was called in as injury cover and was always going to be replaced rather he was selected as a long term member of the side during those stints.
Whilst I agree with the premise of that argument, my point still stands - who do we replace him with?
It's easy to say Burns, Maddinson or Doolan. But if they start the shield season with sub-30 scores and Hughes whacks a ton or two for SA then I find it hard to believe they'll include one of them ahead of him.
We have to accept that we're in the same position as England were in 15 years ago. How many times did they recall Ramprakash, Hick, Knight, Crawley, etc. despite the fact they were proven failures at test level? When the cupboard is bare you don't have much choice.
Incidently this couples in nicely with my earlier rants about needing to play more FC cricket. We have no idea how good someone like Kurtis Patterson actually is because he played only one FC match then had to make way for a senior player. That was two full seasons ago. Any Pom who made 150 on debut like he did would have played 25+ FC matches by now and they'd know if he was the goods or not. We have no clue as to whether or not he is.
