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I'm sure the Indians are quaking in their boots to face Doherty. I was going through Shield stats and he didn't even show up on the bowling averages for this season, has he even taken a wicket?
I'm quite certain it'll be Maxwell or Doherty.
SOK hasn't a prayer. He might as well immigrate to New Zealand if he ever wants to play a 5 dayer.
Steve O'Keefe has forfeited the captaincy of New South Wales in order to more vigorously pursue a place bowling left-arm spin for Australia.
Towards the end of his second summer leading the Blues whenever Michael Clarke is not available, O'Keefe volunteered to give up the job ahead of the state's final two Sheffield Shield matches, reckoning it would give him a greater chance of taking the wickets he needs to push for an international spot.
The Blues will instead by led by the batsman Ben Rohrer, who enjoyed success as interim captain last month when O'Keefe was briefly injured.
O'Keefe stated recently his disappointment at being passed over for a place in the Test squad to tour India, despite his possession of the most persuasive first-class bowling figures among all slow bowlers in the Sheffield Shield.
However apart from an eight-wicket match haul against Western Australia at Blacktown Oval recently, O'Keefe's bowling and batting returns have diminished during his time as captain, occasionally leaving selectors to ponder his best role in the NSW side.
O'Keefe's decision to abandon the captaincy also follows two years of largely barren results for NSW, and a raft of recent changes at the state association, which now has vacancies for the positions of chief executive and head coach plus a new chairman in John Warn.
Taking on the captaincy at the start of the 2011-12 season, O'Keefe was an unexpected choice to replace Simon Katich, who was keen to continue as state captain but was encouraged by the former CEO David Gilbert that the time was right for a change.
This left O'Keefe and the new coach Anthony Stuart as the inexperienced duo in charge, contributing partly to a poor summer. When results did not improve this season, Stuart was dismissed, and Gilbert and the chairman Harry Harinath have also now left.
wont achieve anything
its not as though he cant get picked for Oz if he is the blues skipper
"Stephen O'Keefe has got a really good record. Xavier Doherty bowled outstandingly well for us in the one-day series. Michael Beer would have been here if he didn't get injured.
"That caused us to reshuffle a little bit. We picked Xavier over Stephen primarily because we thought Xavier was bowling exceptionally well, which he was in the one-day series at that particular time."
and SOK got 8 wickets in his last 4 day game but apparently ODI form means more to the fossil
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Honestly, I think it's more to get his name out there and show he's willing to do 'whatever it takes' to get a baggy green.
Something has to give eventually. Watching Doherty and Maxwell get pongoed on a spinners deck yesterday means that this is the right time for him to make a bold move like this.
The important thing is the media are now starting to call bullshit on the whole thing, whereas they've been silent for the last 18 months. If he keeps his name in the media while the geniuss we've got in the squad keep getting smashed it may be enough to force old man Invers hand.
Or not.
He'll get a chance at some stage.Suits change though.
He's 29, so he's got plenty of time still.