Beer?

[jnr8]

Michael Beer.. Who? Have Australia have made a desperate decision in picking Michael Beer for the 3rd Test? What are your thoughts? More on the issue can be found here. http://jnr8.wordpress.com/2010/12/11/the-heads-are-spinning-at-the-selection-table/ Personally, I think they need to persist with the one spinner for a longer period of time.

[Bradman99]

I had never even heard of him till a couple of days ago. It's a bit sad we have gotten to the stage where we are playing people who have had 5 games at FC level.. Also, his average is like 40 odd isn't it, so don't really understand his selection. It's a bit of a kick in the teeth to Hauritz.

[King Tendulkar]

Aussie spin dept reminds me of england in the 90s and before monty came. None of them are good enough and a new one is tried every series. Just aussies are now tring a new one every game

[Sooda]

Bit of a farcical selection policy. Hauritz bowled well in his state match this week and should be in the squad, Bolly should not have been dropped, Hilfy should not have for the last test, Johnson should not have come back since he is bowling pretty sh1t

[Sachin=GOD]

MacGill slams selection panel

Stuart MacGill, the former Australian Test legspinner, has slammed the decision of his country's selectors to call up Michael Beer, a slow left-armer who has played just five first-class games, for the third Ashes Test at Perth next week. "I am gobsmacked, shocked, I honestly cannot believe it," MacGill told Sydney's Daily Telegraph. "The team will have to change again after the next Test. Good on Michael Beer, good bloke and good player, but look at this as a job interview and show me his qualifications to get this job. He doesn't have any. He is not qualified for the job they have given him. Sending him out there next week, what are they trying to do?" MacGill, who played 44 Tests before his retirement in 2008, reserved particular criticism for comments made by Andrew Hilditch, the selection panel chairman. "To be honest, from Andrew Hilditch's comments, he doesn't even really know who Michael Beer is. He said he'll bowl well in Perth because it's his home ground," he said. "I'm not sure Andrew thought those comments through before he made them. "Look, Andrew Hilditch is a lovely bloke but someone needs to tell him Michael Beer has not spent his career playing at the WACA. Three games there and nothing better than a three-for. Honestly, there is no big picture here." MacGill also expressed his dismay at the discarding of Nathan Hauritz, who has taken up 63 wickets in 17 Tests, hit a maiden first-class hundred as a nightwatchman against South Australia on Wednesday and picked up a five-wicket haul in his last domestic game in Perth. ""Xavier Doherty was [an odd inclusion] too, to be honest. They are clearly telling Nathan Hauritz, 'you are never playing test cricket again'. I don't understand that. Xavier Doherty should never have played the first two Tests. Michael Beer shouldn't be playing this one."

[achilles]

Hauritz, a victim of rowdie, thick-headed selection policies.

[Sachinism]

MacGill made Hilditch look a tool

[Anakin]

OZs are breaking down :((:icflove:

[Mr Eintstein]

Did Hauritz not suck enough dicks or something? Can't understand what he's done wrong, besides not being Shane Warne version two.

[panesarv]

Did Hauritz not suck enough dicks or something? Can't understand what he's done wrong' date=' besides not being Shane Warne version two.[/quote'] It seems that it's gonna take a fund-raising thing to get Hauritz back in the team.