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Message: [QUOTE="Sproj, post: 2990754, member: 8423"] So you refute my opinion...with opinion. Nice. Burns is by no means a great of the game but he has an average of almost 37 with three test hundreds and is one of the most consistent bats in Shield out of an extremely bad bunch. Compare his FC career to either of Finch or Harris and it is a no contest. This one is not a good start to your argument. Patterson may not be on the radar of CA but so what? Labushagne has played tests for Australia already, tells you everything you need to know about the selectors. Patterson is an extremely poor man's Joe Root in that he gets to 50 pretty regularly but doesn't go on with it. This would help allay the very common clump of wickets falling that this side regularly does. Pucovski is a massive prospect as you said and is too raw to put in yet for sure but he is the one shining light in Australian batting obviously. At least help him know he is on the radar. Lehmann is hard to argue. He is inconsistent and is a perfect symbol of the current batting situation in Australia for sure. That said, he is one of the better options out of a very bad bunch, no worse than Handscomb but certainly not necessarily better either. He has started the season well enough. Maxwell is a conundrum. I disagree he would be cannon fodder. He may be but he also may be able to take the game on and counter attack when Australia gets into their inevitable bad situation. He could also end up getting himself out and so I can certainly understand the concern around him. Wade would be chosen primarily because of his batting and because Paine is likely out of the second test with a finger injury. Wade is EASILY the best batsman in Shield this year and ahead of Burns, is the most consistent bat by far. Cummins shouldn't be batting at 7 of course but why pick batsmen there who aren't going to score any more than the bowlers will? Neser particularly has been batting better than most batsmen in Shield AND you get the bonus of him being a decent bowler. If he is in, he is the real number 7 and a good one too. Richardson is a special case, I just rate the kid so much I want him in there. I'd probably pick him ahead of Starc, even though Starc obviously has that x-factor about him. I'm just a massive fan of this bloke, he reminds me a lot of Brett Lee actually, albeit completely different physique. So long story short, some of these selections are arguable of course but there is no way this side is worse, let alone MUCH worse. [/QUOTE]

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