Warnes' Manifesto

[GVGjr]

Re: Warnes' Manifesto

Did anyone read the 2nd installment?

Main things I noticed.

Mitchell Johnson is not in his best 12 in any form of cricket
Bailey dropped from the T20 side but is in the ODI side
Wade batting at 6 in all forms of the game and is made captain of the T20 side
Coulter-Nile in all forms of the game
Ferguson at 5 in the test side

Thoughts?

[Ghost Dog]

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That took me a second.

Sedat you made GVG use an emoticon! impressive

"Look at you, in those candy-assed monkey suits."

[Go_Dogs]

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Thoughts?

I'm not convinced his teams stack up, but he has some interesting selections.

No Hughes in any 11 is baffling after the summer he's had. Even with my SA glasses on I can't back Ferguson, and Marsh, for all his talent, just hasn't delivered consistent enough performance and has just about ran out of chances.

Coulter-Nile and Faulkner ahead of Starc and Bird for the test side doesn't convince me either. I assume Faulkner is in as a bowling all rounder, but I'm not convinced he's what we need in the test side.

Here's his sides for those who haven't seen it.

20/20 team
(Watson will be fit when the next 20/20 is played.)

1. Finch
2. Warner
3. Marsh S
4. Watson
5. Maxwell
6. Wade (C)
7. Faulkner
8. Coulter-Nile
9. Starc
10. McKay
11. Doherty


12. Beer
13. Cutting
14. Henriques or M Marsh when fit.
15. M Johnson


1-day team
(Watson comes back in when fit for whatever batsman is not performing)

1. Finch
2. Warner
3. Marsh S
4. Clarke (C)
5. Bailey
6. Wade
7. Maxwell (Floater)
8. Faulkner
9. Coulter-Nile
10. Starc
11. McKay


12. Hauritz
13. Henriques
14. Marsh M
15. M Johnson



Test team
(My squad of 18 players. Watson will be fit when the next test is played)

1. Warner
2. Watson
3. Marsh S
4. Clarke (C)
5. Ferguson
6. Wade
7. Faulkner
8. Coulter-Nile
9. Siddle
10. Pattinson
11. Lyon


12. Hughes P
13. Maxwell
14. Starc
15. Khawaja
16. Harris R
17. Henriques
18. Jackson Bird

This is the squad of players that I think can help us get back to Number 1 in the world.

[LostDoggy]

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Ryan Harris. Honestly. He's been injury-prone and finished for 2.5 years now.

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Warnes' Manifesto

Did anyone read the 2nd installment?

Main things I noticed.

Mitchell Johnson is not in his best 12 in any form of cricket
Bailey dropped from the T20 side but is in the ODI side
Wade batting at 6 in all forms of the game and is made captain of the T20 side
Coulter-Nile in all forms of the game
Ferguson at 5 in the test side

Thoughts?

Warne needs to shut up and leave the discussions to the adults. Utter rubbish.

[lemmon]

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Very good article about the rotation of fast bowlers, particularly our young quicks

"A comprehensive review of the formative years of fast bowlers is one of the less-trumpeted but more valuable pieces of work conducted by Cricket Australia's team performance regime. In their research, which covers the past 40 years, the bowling undertaken by pacemen up to the ages of 23-25 is placed in the sharpest focus. The data suggests, overwhelmingly, that bowlers are likely to face a range of injury problems until their bodies mature fully, around the time they turn 25. "We've got data showing us that fast bowlers are very resilient between the ages of 25 and 30 - that's when they're at their best," Alex Kountouris, who has been working as a physio with the national team since 2003, says. However, it is quite possible that by overloading a young bowler, his body can be scarred to a point that even after 25 is reached, injuries will worsen.

Kountouris spoke of how Reid and others provided priceless knowledge about what can befall a young bowler if pushed too hard, too soon. In the cases of Starc and Pattinson, careful management is particularly necessary, for they have already reached a volume of Test-match bowling at a young age that only four other Australia bowlers had reached since 1970."

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/603419.html