Your ideal 1 and 6 for 2013

[Guest]

Next year is a write off, I accept that. If we get Foran then we're set.

[Roostarz]

1. Slater
6. Marshall

We would be unbeatable. Imagine those guys with Pearce and Friend behind our pack. Wow!

Same, that would be my pick too with no restrictions or Sam Tomkins/Michael Gordon and Carney(2010)

[Guest]

Carney and Dugan

[Guest]

1. Phillip Hughes.

6. Shane Watson.

[Guest]

1. Phillip Hughes.

6. Shane Watson.

Yet we're stuck with Ricky Ponting.

[Guest]

Yet we're stuck with Ricky Ponting.

Watch yourself Jamie Lee Curtis (I think?).

Punter is a saint in my household.

No, I'm not related to him - don't live in Tasmania.

oooo

[Guest]

Watch yourself Jamie Lee Curtis (I think?).

Punter is a saint in my household.

No, I'm not related to him - don't live in Tasmania.

oooo

Yeah, I'm old enough to remember Max Walker so there's no slavish love of Ponting here.

[Guest]

1. Phillip Hughes.

6. Shane Watson.

Hughes is a myth.

Gully, point, cover point... Hughes caught in the first over, for naught.

Give Marsh/Khuwaja/Warner a crack at opening. Watson must stay at the top.

[Guest]

Hughes is a myth.

Gully, point, cover point... Hughes caught in the first over, for naught.

Give Marsh/Khuwaja/Warner a crack at opening. Watson must stay at the top.

This is the Australian XI as it should be.

Watson
Khawaja
Marsh
Ferguson
Clarke
Paine
Johnson
Starc
Bollinger
Hauritz
Siddle

[Guest]

This is the Australian XI as it should be.

Watson
Khawaja
Marsh
Ferguson
Clarke
Paine
Johnson
Starc
Bollinger
Hauritz
Siddle

Johnson isn't worthy of a spot. Siddle is a toiler, but not in the same class as Harris - banging it in for 25+ overs just isn't enough.

There is something good about Copeland, too - post McGrath, we seem to have forgotten that you don't have to bowl 130+ to bamboozle batsmen.

Hauritz has been unlucky, but there's no gain bringing him in now. Lyon performed well, albeit on spin friendly wickets.

I'd have:

Watson
Warner - categorising him as purely a 20/20 cricketer is another myth, he has the potential to become a stocky Matt Hayden.
Marsh
Khuwaja
Clarke
Ferguson
Paine
Harris
Copeland
Starc
Lyon

[Guest]

I honestly included Hauritz because of State Loyalty. Like with Stuart McGill.

Stuart McGill would have been a walk up start in any other era of the Australia side and he would have played 100+ tests. Warnie was a genetic freak.

Bringing it back to League, it's like Kevin Hastings and Sterling. I am still convinced that Sterling was an average halfback and having Mick Cronin, Steve Ella and Eric Grothe as finishers would make anyone look the goods.

[Guest]

Nobody gives a flying fark about Cricket..lol

[Guest]

This is the Australian XI as it should be.

Watson
Khawaja
Marsh
Ferguson
Clarke
Paine
Johnson
Starc
Bollinger
Hauritz
Siddle

Any Aus cricket team without the Roosters supporter Warner in it, is a joke

Warner
Marsh
Watson
Ponting
Clarke
HUssey
Paine
Hauritz
Copeland
Bollinger
Harris

[melon....]

Locke and pearce

[melon....]

Brain...foran ain't that great. He is another tool on the piss though. Believe me we got the better one. I just wish they play pearce at 6.