Aftermath of the 3 Mobile Test series loss against the South Africans,Aussies are almost down and gone..The pressure was on the selectors to pick a team for the ODI series against the Proteas...They had no other go other than to drop Hayden,37,for some other youngster as he was not in the best of form since he came back from an injury against the West Indies..How long they can sustain with an Old Bullock???They just trashed him away like they did for Symmo...Hayden was given ample opportunities but it was squandered away by him..And the Australians would have nearly lost the final test match against The Proteas as he dropped a sitter at slips...So,CA have discarded him from the squad for the upcoming series...Now the Ausralians without Symmo and Haydos are touch a bit vulnerable,as they lose their experience...And a brand new Australian Team has been picked for the series...Causing to the wound would be that Lee and Johnson are also rested for the upcoming series owing to injury concerns,which makes a completely inexperienced bowling attack..Leading the bowling attack would be Siddle,who played nearly 2 to 3 test matches...But,We can never under estimate any Australian side...They always come with a surprise...And lets see how Ponting goes about it...
Another important happening which took place in the World of Cricket is The Resignation of the South African Born English Captain Kevin Pietersen..It's a great loss for the Poms as he was doing a great job in building the team...One bad series cannot make him a bad captain...It seems that there was a rift between the coach and KP, and this came into picture publicly,which persuaded KP to resign from the post...The rift was because of the reason that certain players were selected cause of Moores and KP was against it ...Moores was also sacked from the Coach Post right after KP resigned...The Next Skipper was announced by the ECB as Andrew Strauss..I think he would be a Stop-Gap captain for the series against West Indies...I don't know where his name surfaced from...He was in and out of the squad until the arrival of Pietersen's tenure...It should have gone to Freddy or given it back to Collingwood...Who would the Board name the skipper in ODI's,as Strauss doesn't play One Day Cricket regularly...I think Flintoff would have been a better choice...
Right before the Ashes,some great changes take place between the teams which would make the contest more interesting...
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