Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[malo]

Maxwell is the type of cricketer that wins matches, but not one on whom the selectors are prepared to gamble.  It's quite strange given their propensity to select players who don't seem to have done enough to warrant selection or who aren't doing enough to stay in the team.

What we also need is a skipper who will fight tooth & nail for the type of blokes he wants in the team with him.  Not sure Smith has that tenacity yet.  Ponting fought (almost demanded) that a similar player (Andrew Symonds) was selected in his side despite some off field hi-jinx.  And he could have been a match winner over a decent length of time if the ACB hadn't completely stabbed him & Ponting in the back by pandering to the Indians over the "monkeygate" incident.  Symonds lost his interest in the game from then on.