Leave the one-day and 20-20 games out of your playing schedule Clarkey. Given the ICC fascination in T20s & ODIs over test matches you would be better served getting your fitness back playing in the Sydney Grade cricket competition with maybe a few Shield games & the Australia A 4-day games midway through the year, whilst the ODI games are on & only be available for the test match sections of any upcoming overseas tours. Mark Taylor & Steven Waugh maintained very good captaincy & batting records despite being restricted to test match duties after having been sacked from being player in ODI sides in 1997 & 2002 respectively. Test careers extended out to 1999 & 2004 respectively. Using the rest of the summer getting hamstrings on both legs & the lower back muscle re-enforced via not trying to rush back into the main team too soon would be a preference. Australia are not likely to lose a home test series in your injury-enforced absence. They certainly wont if Indias selectors are dumb enough to revert back to having MS Dhoni as their test match captain & they dont do a better job at having a more balanced bowling attack & a collection of bowlers with the same level of mental application as Australias bowlers when it comes time for Indias lower order to be batting for long periods of time. India had 3 earlier opportunities to beat Australia in a test series IN Australia and failed to take the chances given to them in 1977-8,1985-6 & 2003-4. The ONLY international side around able to cause problems for Australia IN Australia is South Africa and the Amla/Devilliers/Steyn led group wont be here until 2016-17.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 03:50:45 +0000
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