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Could be, also could be a case of they know what they have with Lyon and want to give Zampa a further chance to develop. The squad for the one day games in India next month will be a huge guide and chance for those to press their chances for the World Cup.
Do well in the one day squad in India and then you are pretty hard to leave out for the World Cup.

I think we are being a bit unfair on Finch in relation to his white ball record. While most people agree that his technique is not up to test standard, he has performed pretty consistently in ODIs and T20s up to this season.
In 50 over cricket he has played 98 games for 11 hundreds and 18 fifties at an average of 37 and a strike rate of 89.
His T20 record over 50 games is 2 hundreds and 9 fifties at an average of 38 and a strike rate of 156. Certainly not Kohli like but pretty tidy nonetheless and I think if he can sort out his current technical flaw he has a few more big scores in him.

In a time when Aust needed him to stand up with senior players suspended mikeh, the fella has been a tad disappointing......great record when not playing as the main man......perhaps get him back into that role by taking the captaincy off him ..though as MO will rightly point out, Warnie would do his nut......too close to the WC anyway....just got to hope Finch finds his white ball form again....playing regularly of late in the UK for the shorter formats will hopefully help come the WC...interesting to see Aust ODI prep is in India and UAE....conditions so far away from the UK it's not funny.....perhaps it's been done from a spinning perspective when Aust comes up v the likes of Moeen and Kahn in the WC....

I can see the headlines now....."Fatty Finch Fails Again".

Yep and Carey hasn't really worked either at the top of the order. May need to reconsider someone like Head to open as he has a tighter technique. Finch really does need to sort out this problem he has with the in swinging ball as all bowlers will ruthlessly exploit this if he doesn't.

BC wrote: I can see the headlines now....."Fatty Finch Fails Again".

Not from the Herald Sun or The Age or any of the Vic based media (Warne, Ralph et al) and social media you wont BC!!

Beasley Hutton wrote:

BC wrote: I can see the headlines now....."Fatty Finch Fails Again".

Not from the Herald Sun or The Age or any of the Vic based media (Warne, Ralph et al) and social media you wont BC!!

Good point....

Gee they will be lucky to score 250 the way this is going. India will chase that down without breaking a sweat.

Maxwell gone...they'll be lucky to make 200 at this rate.

once more Australian batsmen have proven themselves to be totally clueless against decent leg spin. This bloke Chahal who has been sitting on the bench in previous games comes in and takes a lazy 5 - 40. Really depressing Australian cricket at the moment and probably for a fair while to come.


Make that 6 - 40. India won't even need to get out of second gear to run down 230. Very disappointing performance