Little Richard

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

After reading that it has occurred to me that anyone must be able to become a moderator on bomberblitz, what a load of rubbish. They say that giving Grimes the leadership could be a mistake and then that 'he looks the goods'... interesting write up.

Taggerts debut is one of the things I'm looking forward to most this season. In the game he played in the magoos he really looked like he belonged playing senior footy and was one rung below dominant. Can't wait!

Jimmy Anderson

Pure BS

Has there ever been a social game of cricket between the demonlanders?

Round 1 - pick no.2 Michael Clarke (Aust). Phenomenal year, and he'll keep doing it in India and England I think.

Audacious

Do we compete with some kind of points system or is it just a drafting game?

Fair enough, some bold calls there though I think

Is that a greatest XI or something along those lines Biff?

If he doesn't make it at the MFC I'd bet he could pursue a career in media, so entertaining!

Taking Johnson to India, let alone England would be disastrous. Nowhere near reliable enough and never will be; I see him as a stop gap for the time being until some of the others are fit. No idea about Pattinsons injury status but he should be spared the rigors of the subcontinent and saved for England. I'm really looking forward to seeing Bird bowl overseas - I can see him being effective in India and especially England.

Yeah I'm keen, sign me up!

I wouldn't back Watson to reclaim the opening spot and I think Cowan is the kind of guy who needs a bit of time to cement himself (not to mention work out how to form an effective partnership with Warner). There aren't exactly many guys banging down the door for this spot anyway - the only one who comes to mind is Finch and he's doing it in the wrong format of the game.

This is true, it was ugly to watch. They couldn't give him more than a slap on the wrist anyway for fear of damaging the ratings and crowd numbers.

I actually believe Watson's bowling is more valuable than his batting. Hasn't done it with the willow for a while and he is our most reliable bowler barring probably Siddle. Always manages to take a wicket when we need it and is understandably underused due to his body. Fair enough if he is focussing on his batting to try and squeeze out a few more years though.

Stemmed from Samuels grabbing Hussey in the first innings when he was running between wickets. Shane has really lost the plot, though he was really out of it when he was harassing Stuart Carlisle of Zimbabwe on the pitch in 2001, memorable words from Warnie that day.

Nope, forget Hilfy, he is done and the only thing he was good for recently was cheap tail end wickets.

Absolutely agree re Starc but deeluded is on the money imo; he is at the moment immature and undisciplined in his bowling and maybe to a lesser extent his attitude. Obviously you can't expect him to be the ultimate, disciplined professional at the age of 22 but I hope our lack of a real senior mentor figure in the fast bowling group (barring maybe Siddle although he is still young himself) doesn't affect the development of Starc and the other guys like Pattinson and Cummins.

Starc was all over the place, and bowling short balls to the tail was just stupid. He should have kept it full and straight and probably would have cleaned them up much quicker.

Not at all but that seems to be the way in Thailand. And obesity and old age has a tendency to go hand in hand.

I hope you aren't one of those fat old sleazy tourists who walk around in speedos and give Australians a bad reputation.

This is a good summary and I don't think he will be in the side for much longer because history shows he'll lose the plot again soon enough. He is a handy weapon for the moment though (forgetting the fact we are playing Sri Lanka at home).

But the divisive topic inevitably shoots off into other arguments about rubbish, hence what usually happens.