Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[ElwoodBlues1]

That's a little harsh on Paine mate......he was exactly what the national side needed as captain in the wake of that moment of stupidity in SAF.  And if you're being fair, Paine is finally getting the games that should have been his years ago, before Wade was even in the picture.  Having said that, you have to reward performances...and Wade would be in any side as a specialist Batsman given that criteria.

And Maxwells treatment is nothing short of restraint of trade........and I'm from Tassie, so no Vic bias here !

Fair points, I dont mind Tim Paine as a cricketer or individual but I just think we went overboard in trying to clean up the mess left by Warner etc...Aussie teams function better when we have some edge to our game and have a little bit of mongrel but still stay within the rules.
Wade should get the second keeper's job for England unless they go with a part time keeper like Hanscomb, I'd play Wade in the old Warner opening role, take the attack to the  opening bowlers, as I have said before I am not a real fan of keepers playing as specialist batsman but in our case we need to reward Shield players who are meeting the normal criteria of weight of runs@ a decent average..
When you pick blokes averaging 29 in the key role of No 3 then really cant expect to be winning at test level vs decent opposition...re: Maxwell...think we all know Maxy isnt everyones cup of tea in the dressing room and probably isnt one of the boys but either was Don Bradman who played with a team full of micky flynn's but we still got the job done and picked the best players..