Selectors at it Again, Decisions made on T20 Form

Johnson, Lee and Hopes have all hit the deck and rightfully so the Aussies have shipped over a backup to bolster to the injury hit squad.

2 specialist bowlers down, you would think that the selectors would bring over another to cover, perhaps a Brett Geeves, a Dirk Nannes or a Shane Harwood. All of them have good records for the respective states in Domestic One Dayers.

But instead the selectors have decided to pull the wild card and 22 year old Moises Henriques has found himself on a plane back to India after just returning.

So perhaps some of the reasons the selectors chose Henriques are: he’s young and promising and time with the Aussie squad could do him wonders and he’s an all rounder to cover for Hopes.

Now if they don’t expect him to play, that sits fine with me. But what gets me, is when they say that he was picked off the back of a successful Champions League Twenty20. Domestic Twenty20 matches count NOTHING towards being picked for your country to play ODIs.

What matters is that Moises’ One Day record isn’t that good. He’s never hit a 50 and his average is under 20. His bowling average is approaching 40 and his economy is 5 and a half. He may be a young player with potential, but he has done nothing to warrant getting selected for Australia.

Andrew McDonald must be a bit confused at the moment. Selectors stuck with him last summer despite heavy criticism and now the team needs to call up an all rounder and he’s forgotten. And on a side note, his Champions League Twenty20 stats were better than Henriques’! (Not that it should matter anyway).

So my message to the selectors is simple. Do not ever pick players on Twenty20 form unless it is actually for a Twenty20 side, and if Henriques is over there simply to get experience amongst the Aussie squad, then they so!

Oh wait I just figured out the real reason he got picked… Guess which state he’s from.