SA Footy

This is the squad for the five match ODI series against England, an ODI against Ireland and a T20 match against England. The limited overs stuff stars on the 27th August with the ODI against Ireland. No VC named yet but expected to be Warner.

Australian squad: Steve Smith (capt), Ashton Agar, George Bailey, Joe Burns, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Patrick Cummins, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Marsh, James Pattinson, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade (wk), Shane Watson, David Warner, Cameron Boyce (T20I only)

http://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/au ... 7479897524

A real exciting and strong looking squad despite the retirements/resting players.

Great to see Agar get the nod instead of Doherty as the specialist spinner. A much better all round cricketer than Doherty let alone spinner.

Joe Burns should get a start at the top of the order and Watson still has plenty to offer in ODI colours.

I've been really excited to see Pattinson bowling again for Australia A, hopefully he can get some wickets against England now. Hopefully we can at least win the ODI series now.

First Game against the Poms
Warner,Burns, Smith, Watson,Bailey, Maxwell,Wade,Agar, Starc, Pattison, Cummins
Or Play Marsh and leave out One of the bowlers and squeeze 10 overs out between Maxwell and Watson. But I like having 3 strike quicks.

The Dark Knight wrote:A real exciting and strong looking squad despite the retirements/resting players.

Great to see Agar get the nod instead of Doherty as the specialist spinner. A much better all round cricketer than Doherty let alone spinner.

Joe Burns should get a start at the top of the order and Watson still has plenty to offer in ODI colours.

I've been really excited to see Pattinson bowling again for Australia A, hopefully he can get some wickets against England now. Hopefully we can at least win the ODI series now.

Why not Nathan Lyon?

interesting that Johnson hasnt been picked. Just due for a rest?

bennymacca wrote:interesting that Johnson hasnt been picked. Just due for a rest?

Yeah I read they're resting him.

MJ_23 wrote:

The Dark Knight wrote:A real exciting and strong looking squad despite the retirements/resting players.

Great to see Agar get the nod instead of Doherty as the specialist spinner. A much better all round cricketer than Doherty let alone spinner.

Joe Burns should get a start at the top of the order and Watson still has plenty to offer in ODI colours.

I've been really excited to see Pattinson bowling again for Australia A, hopefully he can get some wickets against England now. Hopefully we can at least win the ODI series now.

Why not Nathan Lyon?

Well I guess they obviously want to keep him for test match cricket only.

Agar is a good option and probably better suited to ODI cricket as he can bat better than Lyon and is a really good all round fieldsman aswell.

We're obviously building/looking towards the next World Cup aswell which I think Agar will be a part of.

F@ck the Ashes. There is no World Cup in test cricket. One day cricket is the most important form of the game, the most popular and the reason why the sport was revolutionised. We are the world champions, bring on the Poms.

I nearly convinced myself

I might be a little biased but I fail to see why Cam Ferguson was ever dropped from the ODI side and why he couldn't slot straight back in now that Pup has gone, he's the most like for like player as Pup and we have enough stroke makers in the side to compliment a worker of the ball that will still strike at 90+ without risking his wicket.

Lightning McQueen wrote:I might be a little biased but I fail to see why Cam Ferguson was ever dropped from the ODI side and why he couldn't slot straight back in now that Pup has gone, he's the most like for like player as Pup and we have enough stroke makers in the side to compliment a worker of the ball that will still strike at 90+ without risking his wicket.

Not sure Ferg was ever actually dropped was he? Did his knee and dropped down the pecking order, never to be heard of again lol..

Zartan wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:I might be a little biased but I fail to see why Cam Ferguson was ever dropped from the ODI side and why he couldn't slot straight back in now that Pup has gone, he's the most like for like player as Pup and we have enough stroke makers in the side to compliment a worker of the ball that will still strike at 90+ without risking his wicket.

Not sure Ferg was ever actually dropped was he? Did his knee and dropped down the pecking order, never to be heard of again lol..

I can't remember, I thought he was part of the rotation system but never got rotated back in?
#bringbackferg

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Zartan wrote:

Lightning McQueen wrote:I might be a little biased but I fail to see why Cam Ferguson was ever dropped from the ODI side and why he couldn't slot straight back in now that Pup has gone, he's the most like for like player as Pup and we have enough stroke makers in the side to compliment a worker of the ball that will still strike at 90+ without risking his wicket.

Not sure Ferg was ever actually dropped was he? Did his knee and dropped down the pecking order, never to be heard of again lol..

I can't remember, I thought he was part of the rotation system but never got rotated back in?
#bringbackferg

Nah I'm sure he lost his spot due to his knee injury.....

Yeah he was never looked at agin after his injury, very harsh I thought, he was doing very well before then

England have named their ODI & T20 squads with the ODI series against Australia starting on the 31st August. Joe Root is being rested.

ODIs Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, James Taylor, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood

T20 Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Adil Rashid, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, James Vince, David Willey, Chris Woakes

Gozu wrote:England have named their ODI & T20 squads with the ODI series against Australia starting on the 31st August. Joe Root is being rested.

ODIs Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, James Taylor, David Willey, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood

T20 Eoin Morgan (capt), Moeen Ali, Sam Billings, Jos Buttler, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Adil Rashid, Jason Roy, Ben Stokes, Reece Topley, James Vince, David Willey, Chris Woakes

WTF are they resting him from English sunstroke? He has played 8 days of test cricket in a month and is a batter

Hard to take the series too seriously if the Poms aren't. Having said that I dare say I won't miss much of it, sleep pending.

Just to clarify the 20/20 starts at midnight of Sept 1st (Monday night) whilst the 1 dayers start Wednesday at 11pm.

Cheers, I stand corrected. That's a bit odd we play an ODI vs Ireland then a T20 against the poms and then the ODI series against them.

Gozu wrote:Cheers, I stand corrected. That's a bit odd we play an ODI vs Ireland then a T20 against the poms and then the ODI series against them.

So 7.45 Thursday night then according to WWOS. That's a much more reasonable time. Looking forward to that one.

wristwatcher wrote:

Gozu wrote:Cheers, I stand corrected. That's a bit odd we play an ODI vs Ireland then a T20 against the poms and then the ODI series against them.

So 7.45 Thursday night then according to WWOS. That's a much more reasonable time. Looking forward to that one.

It doesn't look like the ODI vs Ireland is going to be on TV, nothing listed for all 3 of Nine's channels.

Gozu wrote:

wristwatcher wrote:

Gozu wrote:Cheers, I stand corrected. That's a bit odd we play an ODI vs Ireland then a T20 against the poms and then the ODI series against them.

So 7.45 Thursday night then according to WWOS. That's a much more reasonable time. Looking forward to that one.

It doesn't look like the ODI vs Ireland is going to be on TV, nothing listed for all 3 of Nine's channels.

FFS The one form of cricket we are really good at, on at a reasonable hour and they are not showing it.

wristwatcher wrote:

Gozu wrote:

wristwatcher wrote:

Gozu wrote:Cheers, I stand corrected. That's a bit odd we play an ODI vs Ireland then a T20 against the poms and then the ODI series against them.

So 7.45 Thursday night then according to WWOS. That's a much more reasonable time. Looking forward to that one.

It doesn't look like the ODI vs Ireland is going to be on TV, nothing listed for all 3 of Nine's channels.

FFS The one form of cricket we are really good at, on at a reasonable hour and they are not showing it.

It's against the Potato farmers if it's in Dublin the average Paddy won't know we are in town....