TEST CRICKET

What’s wrong with Australian Cricket?

First the team selection policy and the Captaincy.
Lets discuss the team selection policy: Wrong horses for wrong courses. Why player like North should get a place to tour India? Why this off spinner called Nathan Hurwitz gets a place in the team. He picks up odd one or two wickets on a turning track !! ha-ha.
Johnson the opening bowler with a Dracula look is hardly the bowler he was some two years back.
Clark, Hussey, North and Ponting have not scored more than 300 runs in last ten test matches and they are the backbone of the side!! Selectors pick up players when they are on the decline. Why David Hussey should not replace Mike Hussey? Cameron White should be made the captain for the Ashes series. Drop Hussey, Clark and North and bring fresh blood to the side. Young fast bowlers can make the change. Drop injury prone players. No place for Haddin the wicket keeper. Pick players keeping in mind the opponents strengths and weaknesses.
Coming to captaincy: Why Ponting did not use Clark not even for a couple of overs in both innings. If he is unfit to bowl show him the door. Why Not use an unorthodox bowler(Katich) to bowl to a no10 batsman? The irresponsible way he got out in both the innings should be enough to lose his captaincy? Why he quarreled with Khan, after all he is the captain of the side.
So to summarize bad captaincy and poor catching, batting and bowling change cost Australia the match They have no chance to square the series. They will lose the series 2-0.
PS: Compelled to write in my blog , because that bloody –Cricinfo.com gives you such letters to read to put back your views, you may land up exhausting all your energy guessing what’s written in black and white. Hope Australian public read this. I am an Indian but want to see an even contest not one sided ones that’s the reason i have published this one in my blog.