ODI World Cup squads

[brod]

MP.....DC is wearing the wrong colours in your avatar....get him back in red and black....**** the Aussies

[the joker]

Shaun Marsh has replaced Huss for the remaining one day games here, so he will be on stand by for the WC as well

[Dutchy]

According to Hilditch tonight Hastings was picked due to his 196cm height "offering something we dont have"

So Doug, Mitch & Tait at all 189-193cm arent tall enough?

[mal]

Shaun Marsh has replaced Huss for the remaining one day games here, so he will be on stand by for the WC as well

Makes sense replace a middle order batsman with an opening batsman .....

[mal]

According to Hilditch tonight Hastings was picked due to his 196cm height "offering something we dont have"

So Doug, Mitch & Tait at all 189-193cm arent tall enough?

Hilditch would have been better of saying that John was picked on the effort of 1066

[mickey]

Netherlands Squad: Peter Borren (capt), Wesley Baressi (wk), Mudassar Bukhari, Atse Buurman Tom Cooper, Tom de Grooth, Alexei Kervezee, Bradley Kruger, Bernard Loots, Adeel Raja, Pieter Seelaar, Eric Swarczynski, Ryan Ten Doeschate, Berend Westdijk, Bas Zuiderent.

Reserves: Tom Heggleman, Andrew Hoogstraten, Muhammad Kashif

not bad for a bloke performing just averagely in A2 turf this season

[redandblack]

MP.....DC is wearing the wrong colours in your avatar....get him back in red and black....**** the Aussies

He'd have to start i the 2's with us, though.

[Media Park]

Squad: Graeme Smith (capt), Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Colin Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne van Wyk (wk)

Looks like it may be the end of Boucher's ODI career, and the "beginning of the end"for one of my lovechilds....

[Lightning McQueen]

Squad: Graeme Smith (capt), Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Colin Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne van Wyk (wk)

Looks like it may be the end of Boucher's ODI career, and the "beginning of the end"for one of my lovechilds....

Good old Faf
Boucher would have to be one of the grittiest players of the modern era, strikes the ball well enough too, AB is too valuable in the field IMO, oh well, the Saffers obviously have a plan, I can see them posting some massive totals.

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

England's World Cup squad:
Andrew Strauss (Middlesex, capt),
James Anderson (Lancashire),
Ian Bell (Warwickshire),
Tim Bresnan (Yorkshire),
Stuart Broad (Nottinghamshire),
Paul Collingwood (Durham),
Eoin Morgan (Middlesex),
Kevin Pietersen (Surrey),
Matt Prior (Sussex, wk),
Ajmal Shahzad (Yorkshire),
Graeme Swann (Nottinghamshire),
James Tredwell (Kent),
Jonathan Trott (Warwickshire),
Luke Wright (Sussex),
Michael Yardy (Sussex)

Matty Prior replaces Steve Davies as wk

[Bulls forever]

Squad: Graeme Smith (capt), Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Colin Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne van Wyk (wk)

Looks like it may be the end of Boucher's ODI career, and the "beginning of the end"for one of my lovechilds....

MP, can't understand your love for Boucher, agree very tough competitor, but average keeper (for test cricket) and I might be wrong but only averages low 30's in tests, plus he is a south africaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

[Jim05]

Squad: Graeme Smith (capt), Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Colin Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne van Wyk (wk)

Looks like it may be the end of Boucher's ODI career, and the "beginning of the end"for one of my lovechilds....

MP, can't understand your love for Boucher, agree very tough competitor, but average keeper (for test cricket) and I might be wrong but only averages low 30's in tests, plus he is a south africaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

Agree 100%
Most annoying accent in the world tips the scales for me but average keeper, gritty batter.

[spell_check]

Good old Faf

Also known as Singer.

[Pidge]

Squad: Graeme Smith (capt), Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Colin Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne van Wyk (wk)

Looks like it may be the end of Boucher's ODI career, and the "beginning of the end"for one of my lovechilds....

What has happened to Albie Morkel?

[Dogmatic]

They are still getting it wrong. First flight to Sydney is at 6:00am


Cricket Australia accept blame as public relations bungle heaps more pressure on Andrew Hilditch
By Jim Morton
AAP January 19, 2011 6:15PM
Another calamity for Australian cricket, this time off the field, has heaped extra pressure on besieged chief selector Andrew Hilditch.

Hilditch has copped a barrage of abuse during Australia's dreadful summer but this time a rushed PR bungle and not a bewildering assessment of a player appears to be to blame.

Hilditch was pilloried for his comment, expressed in a press release about Australia's World Cup squad, on Tuesday, that off-spinner Nathan Hauritz's "one-day record in India is excellent".

Statistics, though, tell otherwise.

Hauritz has taken just four wickets at an average of 70 in seven ODIs in the country, although he did bowl economically in Australia's highly-impressive 4-2 series win over India in late 2009.

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While Hilditch normally writes comments that appear under his name in Cricket Australia press releases, he did not pen the appraisal of Hauritz, which was included by public affairs manager Philip Pope.

Pope accepted blame for the mistake, which occurred in the rush to have the release ready for the media on Tuesday morning after the 15-man squad was selected late Monday night.

According to CA's public affairs general manager Peter Young, Hilditch signed off on the press release as he was stepping on to the plane for 4am flight from Adelaide to Sydney for a 9.30am press conference.

Both Young and Pope stressed Hilditch almost always writes his own quotes and the large bulk of his comments on the squad release were his own following a late-night briefing with Pope.

"Off the field we are not perfect," Young said.

"Sometimes you get an outside edge or drop a catch."

Despite Hauritz's lack of wicket-taking success in India, which also contributed to his axing from the Test team before this season's 3-1 Ashes series loss, he does boast a decent record as an economical bowler.

Young said his efforts in helping NSW claim the Champions League Twenty20 title in India that year were also taken into account in assessing his suitability for the conditions.

"The continuing view of the selection panel and the chairman is that (Hauritz) is an important player (in the squad)," he said.

Hilditch, who juggles his selection commitments with a full-time job as a lawyer, has been a national selector since 1996-97 and has been the panel chairman for more than four years.

His head is on the chopping block following the Ashes failure but he hopes to continue in the role when his current contract finishes at the end of the World Cup where Australia is bidding to continue their 1999, 2003 and 2007 triumphs.

[Media Park]

Squad: Graeme Smith (capt), Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Colin Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne van Wyk (wk)

Looks like it may be the end of Boucher's ODI career, and the "beginning of the end"for one of my lovechilds....

What has happened to Albie Morkel?

http://www.espncricinfo.com/south-afric ... 97497.html

[Media Park]

West Indies squad: Darren Sammy (capt), Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo, Darren Bravo, Kieron Pollard, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Devon Smith, Sulieman Benn, Nikita Miller, Carlton Baugh (wk), Andre Rusell, Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Adrian Barath

Ireland squad: William Porterfield (capt), Andre Botha, Alex Cusack, Niall O'Brien (wk), Kevin O'Brien, George Dockrell, Trent Johnston, Nigel Jones, John Mooney, Boyd Rankin, Paul Stirling, Albert van der Merwe, Gary Wilson (wk), Andrew White, Ed Joyce.

[Media Park]

Murali needs 18 wickets in his last WC to overtake McGrath's record in WC matches.
McGrath has 71, Murali 53... Wasim is sandwiched between them on 55.

Sachin who has a record 1796 runs, 250 ahead of Ponting, should look to take a lead that will never be beaten.

[Media Park]

Squad: Graeme Smith (capt), Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Colin Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne van Wyk (wk)

Looks like it may be the end of Boucher's ODI career, and the "beginning of the end"for one of my lovechilds....

MP, can't understand your love for Boucher, agree very tough competitor, but average keeper (for test cricket) and I might be wrong but only averages low 30's in tests, plus he is a south africaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

I just went through a lot of stats on cricinfo, to try and show what is so amazing about him in my eyes...

But I've come up empty...

At home, overseas, batting first, fourth innings, match saving, match winning, his average and strike rate are the same...

Cannot see a situation where he's been put in a position where he's faltered...

Oh wait... consistency... There it is...

[OnSong]

Squad: Graeme Smith (capt), Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, AB de Villiers (wk), JP Duminy, Faf du Plessis, Colin Ingram, Jacques Kallis, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Robin Peterson, Dale Steyn, Imran Tahir, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Morne van Wyk (wk)

Looks like it may be the end of Boucher's ODI career, and the "beginning of the end"for one of my lovechilds....

What has happened to Albie Morkel?

http://www.espncricinfo.com/south-afric ... 97497.html

How's the face guard on the keeper in that pic?