I reckon Ponting is going to step up, also Watson should be opening. I also reckon Khawaja should be dropped.
lol. he's actually a really good strokemaker. shame that his weakness is the most important skill in test batting. he's still young give him a couple of years in sheffield shield and he will slowly fix his problem.
Nah, in 2006 Cook was really bad at not moving his feet and prodding tentatively at balls outside off. He has improved out of sight now, a complete batsman but he had big problems early on.
amazing. yesterday he made 47 off 50 balls against a new ball on a seaming wicket. i think australia have found a strong prospect here.
well twenty20s are very different to tests. I meant australia have found a great test prospect. he was already set in the twenty20 team.
Well yeah because... the first T20 Australia team we had was basically the Test team minus a few people.
I agree mostly, Pattinson and Cummins are showing excellent potential though beware of investing too much hope in players so green. Harris has as you said performed well at most opportunities. Siddle has been honest and consistent but really, he's the bowler you go to when you can't get someone better, I liked Hilfenhaus two or three years back and its hard to get the memory of him persistently niggling away outside off, if he can regain his old form he'll be a good prospect. Copeland I think looks to have the makings of a useful test bowler too. I'm less sold on Lyon, it will be telling how he does if some of those Indian greats get settled and Aus requires a spinner to work one end for a lot of overs to keep the over rate moving along and stop the seamers tiring. Like ever spinner since Macgill, excep Krejza who while I liked him was quite erratic, Lyon doesn't really have a great wicket taking, attacking spin he's more there to contain batsman while the other bowlers attack. Watson is looking to be really good second change bowler these days.
