Phil Jaques flies to South Africa

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Australia have called up emergency reinforcements flying Phil Jaques to South Africa. This is good news - Jaques should've been on the tour in the first place. However, somewhat disappointingly, Jaques will bat in the middle order rather than open. It makes sense if the selectors are prepping Gilchrist and Katich to be our openers in the World Cup. But dammit, I want to see Jaques open the batting! Why couldn't Katich and Martyn have been the injured ones?!

I didn't realise it at the time but for the first ODI, the Australian squad only had 11 fit players. We barely got a team onto the park! No wonder they pushed to scrap the super-sub rule, we didn't have another player to sub. Australia is looking very vulnerable at the moment with all the momentum swinging towards the Proteas, Graeme Smith in top form, our best batsmen injured, McGrath ruling himself out of the entire tour and the South African batsmen successfully targeting our new bowlers. I wonder how we can pull ourselves out of the fire for the second match on Friday.

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Posted by JC on Tue 28 Feb

3 comments

I only hope the poms have similar problems next summer when they come to Australia

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Posted by JC on 2006-02-28 01:23:15

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