Figure 11 Image patch selector behavior example.
The No 11 that nearly toppled England Ashes 2015: Mitchell Johnson remains an enigma for the Australians Ashes 2015: Nice guy Steven Finn is making up for lost time – and quickly Ashes 2015: Mitchell Johnson vows to get his bite back in next Test Ashes 2015: Opener Adam Lyth backed by selectors while pitch shows signs of pace.
This particularly frustrated the England selectors as the pitch was excellent for batting, and the Indian attack was weakened by injury.
He took four top-order wickets in the favourable conditions of the first day, when the ball swung and bounced, but failed to advance his reputation on a now flat pitch in front of the England selector James Whitaker.
Like any selector, I would want to know the pitch conditions before choosing my final XI and if we were going to play on a raging turner then Sri Lanka's Rangana Herath would come in for Morkel.
Do your pre-landing check with your checklist: Brakes checked, undercarriage down & locked, Mixture fully rich, Fuel selector on both, Flaps as required, (Propeller pitch fixed), Suction indicating, Oil Temps.
Last week former national selector Jamie Cox mooted the introduction of Indian-style pitches using imported soil, but their utility would be questionable if Australia doesn't also produce the types of slow bowlers capable of giving batsmen that genuine subcontinental experience.
On a sticky pitch surprisingly similar to those that await in Sri Lanka, England crumbled to 85 for seven, with another failure for Ravi Bopara raising the most worrying questions for the selectors.
"Each state in Australia had a selector.
The fixture that the Australian selectors chose to restore Marsh to the Australian ODI side for was the most batsman-friendly that the Australian cricket team could conceivably encounter – a late-mid-summer match against Scotland in Edinburgh on a flat Grange Cricket Club Ground pitch.
