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

[flyboy77]

Mitch Marsh has been named in the squad replacing Sayers.

Looks like Hanscombe will be out and the Marsh brothers will play....

[Jack Burton]

Surely not

[DJC]

Mitch Marsh has been named in the squad replacing Sayers.

Looks like Hanscombe will be out and the Marsh brothers will play....

Do the Marsh brothers have incriminating photographs?

[ElwoodBlues1]

Do the Marsh brothers have incriminating photographs?

Glen Maxwell obviously is so out of form he cant be considered I presume??? he cant be that unpopular with Smith and crew can he?
Mitch Marsh in for Handscomb cant be based on a batting technique improvement, they must want the extra bowler......

[DJC]

Glen Maxwell obviously is so out of form he cant be considered I presume??? he cant be that unpopular with Smith and crew can he?
Mitch Marsh in for Handscomb cant be based on a batting technique improvement, they must want the extra bowler......

Smith refuses to bowl Maxwell so he doesn't provide a relief bowler.

The selectors must have a grand plan that's too sophisticated for mere mortals to comprehend  :-\

[LP]

Smith refuses to bowl Maxwell so he doesn't provide a relief bowler.

The selectors must have a grand plan that's too sophisticated for mere mortals to comprehend  :-\

Smith pretty much refuses to bowl himself, and his bowling was probably rated higher than Maxwell and Lyon as a teenager.

Personally, I don't see Maxwell as a Test bowler, he's useful in One Day or 20/20, maybe a spot for him on the continent, but he barely bowls more than 2 or 3 over spells in local Shield cricket let alone a test.

You'd have Maxwell in the team for two reasons, he is a batting X-Factor which can take the game away from the opposition in a session, a bit like Doug Walters used to be. He's also possibly the best fieldsman in the country and it likely to make that catch or create a run-out that others won't.

But there is this aspect, the argument for Mitch Marsh as a bowler is even weaker than the bowling argument for Maxwell!   Marsh had 153 overs to get some action happening when the Vics made 450 runs, and he barely raised a whimper.

[JonHenry]

I think the selectors have done a pretty good job so far this series....

Marsh and Paine have been very good.
Paine in particular surprised me with his glove work, and his batting gave our first innings a lot of impetus.

Selecting cricket sides is not about looking at stats, if it was you wouldn't have selectors.
I am not a M Marsh fan at all but they obviously have their reasons.
I would suggest his 130km + bowling is a big part of it.

[malo]

I think the selectors have done a pretty good job so far this series....

Marsh and Paine have been very good.
Paine in particular surprised me with his glove work, and his batting gave our first innings a lot of impetus.

Selecting cricket sides is not about looking at stats, if it was you wouldn't have selectors.
I am not a M Marsh fan at all but they obviously have their reasons.
I would suggest his 130km + bowling is a big part of it.

Jeepers, all is required is for a batsman to be able to do what Andrew Symonds used to do with the ball & they'd be a shoe in.

Mitch Marsh.....that's just an injury insurance policy, nothing more, and replace one walking wicket (Handscombe) with another.

[JonHenry]

Jeepers, all is required is for a batsman to be able to do what Andrew Symonds used to do with the ball & they'd be a shoe in.

Mitch Marsh.....that's just an injury insurance policy, nothing more, and replace one walking wicket (Handscombe) with another.

That's the point, M Marsh is quite an effective bowler. Not so great with the bat
I think they are looking to take full advantage of the quick bowlers we have by bowling them in shorter spells.

[laj]

Like his brother, who has actually performed, a surprise to many of us, Mitch Marsh has been batting well so has earned his recall. This he'll play too with Handscomb out of form. On the other hand Maxwell has been batting in outstanding fashion and would be very unlucky. If the next Test was in Sydney I'd reckon Maxwell would've been picked, being more conducive to spin, but being in Perth they went with Marsh.

Always scares me with Marsh's in the team but if you're producing the form then I suppose you'd earned your chance.