09/10 Summer of Cricket

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Originally Posted by RG

While Hughes didn't make a big score he did the job of opener extremely well. Cool, calm, collected and quite confident for a bloke fighting to get back in the team.

Move Kat to 3 or 4 and drop Ponting or Clarke.

I would really love to agree with you but i couldn't justify dropping a proven player like Clarke or Ponting. Yes North has 3 test centuries and is 5 years younger than Ponting but i'm not he has it in him to make 35+ centuries at a 50+ average. Clarke really has copped a lot unfair flack this summer, while he has hit a patch of bad form you don't make 150 on debut in india and not be a half bad player. I'd think Pontings in a similar situation to Steve Waugh a couple of years ago. He's likely to put a run of run centuries on at any time.

Again i'd like to agree with you but at this stage i just can't, maybe if they both continue to fail i'd change my opinion.