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Message: [QUOTE="Fitzy, post: 3586389, member: 9881"] Of course but you have to realise Bartlett is going to play 3 games of shield cricket and 1 one day game assuming no shield final will be played. I just don’t see that getting him over the bloke who has been in and around the squad for over 12 months (in that same period Bartlett has barely played) and can bowl a supposed 150 kmph. Xavier would need like another 7 or 8 wickets this series and maybe 18+ shield wickets and Lance be average through the same period for them to look at Bartlett first. He has also just recovered from a stress fracture Aus won’t be in a hurry to give him an increased load straight away when there is definitely options there. Stressies are a cricketers ACL, load management is very important and the most overs he has bowled in a game since is today with 9. You have struck up this topic of discussion off todays results and I don’t think that’s fair on the bloke who has been selected in an un associated format to the one he has built a reputation in off the back of essentially nothing that suggests he should be here. He’s playing for Australia do the expectation is to perform but I wouldn’t make decisions in another format because of it. If you gave me the option of one in all 3 sure I’d agree but in test cricket I don’t see how you can start this discussion before he has even played a game since his stress fracture, it’s all just hypotheticals until then. [/QUOTE]

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