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Patterson makes back to back 100s.....won't be picked as it would make the selectors look even more confused.....I guess the logic will be after scoring 2 100s v SL, Patterson is due a low score....whilst Burns and Renshaw are due a high score......be interesting if those two hundreds have secured Patterson an Ashes tour....tho it won't win him a spot v SL......

If Patterson can close out the Shield season well and get a 100 or two he presents a compelling case for the Ashes tour, that said who could confidently predict what the selectors will do or what logic they would put to it.

Highlights the stupidity of picking the test squad before this game. Patterson as an in form batsman should be playing in the test but he wont be because it would make the selectors look dumb to change things..

Agree mikeh, that way it would of been a true bat off between all comers...score runs and you get selected.....create some real match pressure and see who responds.....as you say the winner of this battle won't get a look in, despite the JL mantra of "runs are currency" .....

mikeh wrote: Highlights the stupidity of picking the test squad before this game. Patterson as an in form batsman should be playing in the test but he wont be because it would make the selectors look dumb to change things..

Yep your right, Patterson should as an I form player be playing. Mate, you did say he won't play because it would make the selectors look stupid.
Just my view, but they already look stupid as it is (whether they put him in the initial squad for the Sri Lankan series or not).
So if they did pick him there may be a chance (slight I grant you) that they look less stupid than what they currently do.
Because if Hohns, Chappell and Langer got in a huddle right now no one is going to play spot the genius.

Now we all wait with bated breath to see if Hohns & Chappell are man enough to add the in form Patterson to the Test side or are too stubborn old fools who we all know should be put out to pasture to let some younger fresher selectors have a go!

perhaps, lads, Langer can poke one of the batsmen in the eye at training and they can add Patterson that way? I am certain Simpson poked Martyn in the eye and that is how Langer got his test spot.

I think this will be the team in batting order
Burns
Harris
Khwaja
Pukovski
Head
Labuschagne
Paine
Cummins
Starc
Richardson
Lyon

I think Burns will pip Renshaw to balance the right/left handers in the squad. Richardson surely must play ahead of Siddle with an eye to the future.

Heavens to Betsy....Patterson is a late addition...good to see the selectors swallow their pride and see some common sense....with Patterson in....surely that means Burns and Renshaw failed to get the nod.....Harris Uzzie Labuschagne Patterson Head Pucovski in the top 6....must be one of the least experienced top 6 ever to wear the baggy green.....surely?.....always great to see new faces....hopefully Patterson and Pucovski can get some runs and give themselves an Ashes spot...

Some common sense being shown here Freezin, pick an in form batsman. Uzzie will have to stand up though as you said possibly the most inexperienced line up ever and the Sri Lankans will see this as an opportunity to turn the corner after their train wreck of a tour of NZ.