Booney wrote:Jim05 wrote:Carey will play in South Africa IMO.Booney wrote:daysofourlives wrote:Makes it even stranger then that you would want Phillipe in the Test team. Are you really that stupid?Booney wrote:They should have, IMO, taken Phillipe to South Africa as the back up and sent Carey to NZ and installed him as the ODI and T20 captain.
Apologies, I should have typed slower.
Surely playing tests is better
Batting at 5? I'd be surprised if they did that, but stranger things have happened.
Absolutely playing Tests are better (if they play him) but I've got one eye on the next Test captain and it would be easier in instate Carey after a period of captaining the ODI/T20 sides than just bring him straight in, if indeed he is the next Test captain. They might be happy handing it to Cummins, who knows.
Given the tour of South Africa is 3 Tests the back up 'keeper won't have a lot to do barring injury, so be it Phillipe or Inglis or Harper they could get one of them in a touring party and give them a taste of the next level.
"Back up keeper" has a whole new meaning nowadays with Covid, they aren't there for an injury or experience, anything can happen in this day and age and there is no time for plan B.