The Third Test in the Ashes Series - WACA (14 December)

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It was 4/248 when he got in. Alot of pressure as we were still 155 behind. One more wicket could've changed everything. Then he faced the new ball not long after he got on with bowlers rested overnight.

Poms list 6/35.on that deck.

You think that is something to do with the deck or bowlers?

I wrote many days ago that this was an opportunistic selection, the WACA pitches have been runs feast fodder for several years now. The slimmest of chances existed that a batsmen in half-form wouldn't make runs on this pitch, not the other way around. England should have made 500 or even 600 from that position, in much the same way the Australia is about to!

The big problem is this, whichever in-from player was picked he was going to more than likely make runs. On a dead-flat benign pitch against an attack that is built around players who are a puddle of their former self. If there wasn't any political bullcrap, we'd have probably played Mitch Marsh and Glenn Maxwell to give ourselves the best chance of fast scoring and favourable result. Instead we get political spin about needing all-rounders for tired bowlers and then only bowl the bloke 9 of 115 overs.

The real question should be asked, how can it be we have blokes so far out of form that we applaud 30s or 40s on that pitch at an SR of 35%? When we have other players around the country making tons, double tons even almost triple tons at strike rates of 70 to 80%

Where does form come into the selections, it looks more like a lottery, one that has been fixed by the mafia!