Shane Watson

I see that Watson has again been named in the test team for the Boxing Day test.My question: can anyone think of another Australian player as favoured by the selectors as Watson? Has there ever been an Australian number 3 batsman who has only scored 4 hundreds in 100 innings?

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  • Chris Rogers seems to slip under the radar fairly often with not scoring runs, if the ashes weren't in England next year he'd be long gone.
    Brad Haddin is another one, he hasn't scored runs for a while now and I think with Smith getting the captaincy over Haddin he is on borrowed time.
    Peter Siddle is another one, constantly gets selected although has a lack of ability to regularly take wickets. In Siddles defence he's an economical bowler in tests which he can build pressure which the like of Johnson and Starc aren't capable of.
  • Who replaces Watson and picks up his bowling load? With Mitchell Marsh out, Watson is now the important fifth bowler.
    • Faulkner moved up the order would kick ass in watsons place in both batting and bowling.

    • Pick a bowler. He's taking up the number 3 spot. He's not quite a test bowler and not quite a test batsman.
  • You keep talking bout cricket sixties most of us love it too :-)
  • Yeah and this is the General topic section.

  • Watsons a dead set joke with some of the worst body language in cricket, he looks like he has just found out he has a terminal illness when he is walking back to his mark.

    The sooner he is gone the better.

  • Listed as social blog. Is that Ok? Any different to any other social blog that has nothing to do with footy? Eg political or religious shit?
    • It's the bloody national summer sport sixties of course it is !!!! Blog away t
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