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mikeh wrote: Eureka! Finally an Australian batsman scores a ton against a touring team. Get that man Patterson in the test squad ASAP!

Mike it is absolutely mind boggling how Kurtis Patterson (who scored a brilliant century on his first class debut vs WA at the SCG as an 18YO when NSW were in all sorts of trouble when he came to the wicket) has not played Test Cricket whilst his contemporaries in Maddinson, Laburshagne, Burns, Handscomb, Harris, Head, Doolan, Bailey, M.Marsh, Henriques, Maxwell, Cartwright, Finch etc have all been chosen ahead of him in those 7 or 8 years since!

Beasley Hutton wrote:

mikeh wrote: Eureka! Finally an Australian batsman scores a ton against a touring team. Get that man Patterson in the test squad ASAP!

Mike it is absolutely mind boggling how Kurtis Patterson (who scored a brilliant century on his first class debut vs WA at the SCG as an 18YO when NSW were in all sorts of trouble when he came to the wicket) has not played Test Cricket whilst his contemporaries in Maddinson, Laburshagne, Burns, Handscomb, Harris, Head, Doolan, Bailey, M.Marsh, Henriques, Maxwell, Cartwright, Finch etc have all been chosen ahead of him in those 7 or 8 years since!

Patterson has a Shield average of 41, as does Maxwell who also has over 60 Shield wickets. He certainly does deserve a go along with some of those mentioned above in particular Hilton Carthorse. Might as well throw Bancroft into that list then as his Shield average is below 40 (which means Patterson should have got a go before him too) and test average of barely 30.

Considering Doran played well in the latter half of the shield season last year v the Dukes ball, doing well in this game.....another strong finish v the Dukes ball again in Feb/March could see him as a roughie for Ashes squad perhaps.....good comeback by the CA pair....think Patterson has been close a few times BH....but lost out to some of those guys above....gonna be embarrassing if none of Burns, Renshaw or Labuschagne make any runs in the 2nd dig and one if them will play instead of Patterson, because the squad was picked before this game.....sounds like Pucovski is a monty for 6 no matter his score....

Yep you can add Bancroft, S.Marsh, Khawaja, Renshaw, Ferguson are a few others chosen ahead of Patterson Freeze hence the etc I left after naming more than a dozen on the end of my last past...otherwise I would still be typing all the names that have got a go before Kurtis despite his good record!

Surely Patterson needs to be added to this squad.....runs are currency so JL says.....well Patterson has certainly raided the SL bank tonight.....unlike the rest.....wonder what the selectors will do?

I've heard that he is also a pretty good bloke so that is another box ticked as far as JL is concerned, agree Freeze no harm in adding him to the squad and has certainly done his Ashes chances no harm either.

I wondered why they picked the test squad before having a look at this game. The CA XI game finishes on Saturday and the test doesnt start till Thursday so surely they would have enough time to pick and assemble a squad between games. Has sort of blown up a bit in the selectors faces a bit in that the two non test players were the ones with the centuries. Hopefully the other guys will do something in the 2nd dig.
Anyway this pink ball test is in Brisbane so hopefully they will have some contingency plans in place this time to avoid a repeat of that farcical end to the BBL game there tonight.

The selectors are going to look pretty silly if the 3 they have added to the squad have twin failures in this game whilst others impress.
Then again looking silly for these blokes is a bit like water off a ducks back.

The selectors will look even sillier if they pick Siddle over Richardson now Hazelwood has been ruled out with injury....but wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Siddle plays.....perfect opportunity to blood a young fella like Richardson....esp with the Ashes in mind....

With Renshaw failing...and Burns less so, think Burns gets the gig there, if Uzzie doesn't open....if Pucovski makes a few then Uzzie will open I guess with Labuschagne, Marsh, Head and Pucovski batting 3-6...

Think they have already added Richardson to the squad, it is certainly not in the interest of picking form players for test cricket when you look at the current Shield fixturing schedule. On very recent one day form I would give Richardson a go. Don't think Marsh is in the test squad anymore, then again don't know how that does/doesn't work for him when it comes to selection criteria for these selectors.

I mean have a look at Renshaw for example, scores a heap of Shield runs but we won't pick him (ok fair enough), then there is the South African debacle. Quick lets rush Renshaw over there at short notice (same day as the Shield final finishes) for the last test and then he fails in that.
Then take him to the UAE to play the series against Pakistan (gets concussion) and selectors decide to leave him out of both tests (when he was at least fit for the second one). Then don't pick him in the squad for the home series against India (after a couple of Shield failures), he then continues his run of outs is averaging under 20 at Shield level for 2018/19.
What do the selectors do now for the home series against Sri Lanka, pick him of course. The young bloke must be shaking his head, apparently a key criteria from Langer and his selection mates is be in good form. Well, when Renshaw does make runs he doesn't get picked and when he doesn't he does.
I have nothing against Renshaw and think he should have played the second test against Pakistan in the UAE and has a very bright future for Australia, but even he must be confused the thinking of these blokes.