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

[ElwoodBlues1]

I'd have gone with Swepson if they're going to play a 2nd spinner. Poms have never liked leggies so it was a good time to play Swepson. A left arm orthodox bowler like Agar is bread and butter to England.

Lyon and Smith is enough IMO...I'd keep up the pace barrage and keep the bouncers coming...

[LP]

He's a Marsh though. Seriously though, I think Justin Langer is having a big influence on selection lately, hence Agar into the squad for sydney

Yep, they are opportunistically going after Matthew Page as well. He's in the gun for leaving WA and they are going to put him on a pike for the Boxing Day pitch.

Not one media outlet has published the fact that the wickets were prepared by Sandurski before he left for the GABBA, even though the media know full well it takes more than half a year to prepare a drop in pitch, and Page didn't join the MCC until after the WACA test!

[Jack Burton]

Our fielding is atrocious at the moment, it's been glossed over because we beat up on timid opposition in the first 3 tests with superior bowling and solid batting, but our fielding will cost us dearly and soon if something is not done. Smith should field at fine leg

[JonHenry]

Yep, they are opportunistically going after Matthew Page as well. He's in the gun for leaving WA and they are going to put him on a pike for the Boxing Day pitch.

Not one media outlet has published the fact that the wickets were prepared by Sandurski before he left for the GABBA, even though the media know full well it takes more than half a year to prepare a drop in pitch, and Page didn't join the MCC until after the WACA test!

Simply untrue
Every article I've read said he was employed recently but did not turn up until after the Melbourne test started

[JonHenry]

Smith should field at fine leg

Yep of course he should

[JonHenry]

Our fielding is atrocious at the moment, it's been glossed over because we beat up on timid opposition in the first 3 tests with superior bowling and solid batting, but our fielding will cost us dearly and soon if something is not done. Smith should field at fine leg

Go have a look at that catch and tell me he should field at fine leg.
I love you parochialism but geez

[Jack Burton]

Fair enough, that comment was a bit tongue in cheek, but he did drop the previous 4 or 5 that came to him, and most were regulation catches for a good fielder (which he undoubtedly is). I am worried about our fielding overall though, the catches that Cummins and Hazlewood dropped were sodas, and continued a trend that appears to be worsening rather than improving