Australia tour of Bangladesh, Aug 22-Sept 8

[Arthur Crabtree]

So Usman and Haze out for Hilton and O'Keefe.

[andy]

and wade most likely out as well

[Arthur Crabtree]

No batters to bring in. You only really need four bowlers in BD, as the spinners will do so much work. If UK is out, who would come in for Wade?

[andy]

Im not saying he should be dropped, have strange feeling Khawaja will stay in and just be Wade and Hazelwood out

[Arthur Crabtree]

My guess is they'll stick with the keeper. Not sure about the rest if it.

[andy]

hmm they probably should stick with him and then axe him afterwards but i have a feeling they will go

Warner
Renshaw
Smith
Khawaja
Handscomb (wk)
Cartwright
Maxwell
Agar
O;Keefe
Cummins
Lyon

[Arthur Crabtree]

I'm sticking my fiver on the cricinfo XI as they had it down as probable. I'm not sure I wouldn't pick Jackson Bird though. My team (not the one they'll choose):

Warner/Renshaw/Smith/Handscom/Maxwell/Cartwright/Wade/Agar/Cummins/Lyon/Bird

[yuppie]

As much as i dont want to say it, surely Wade needs to play. With no other keeper on tour, dropping him for Handscomb is just crazy. Pick a bad keeper, and then replace him with a worse keeper. And at the same time put more presure onto Handscomb, who will probably fail with the bat.

Australian selectors never learn.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Shoulda taken a plausible reserve. And for Usman.

[yuppie]

It would have made sense.

Perhaps they thought they could get away with these selections.

Who is next inline for the WK position for Australia. Back to Neville?

[Arthur Crabtree]

Just too late for Hartley. Wasn't there supposed to be an anglo who was next in line?

[yuppie]

Im suprised Travis Head has not been around the test team. His one day form has been fine, and seems to bowl well in the shorter game. Worth a shot instead of Maxwell on such a tour.

As for Keepers, ive not been following the Aussie A team. I fear they are trying to shoe horn Hanscomb into the line up as a batsman keeper, and that really wont end well.

[alfie]

Cicinfo has BD unchanged, and...

1 David Warner, 2 Matt Renshaw, 3 Steven Smith (capt), 4 Peter Handscomb, 5 Glenn Maxwell, 6 Hilton Cartwright, 7 Matthew Wade (wk), 8 Ashton Agar, 9 Steve O'Keefe, 10 Pat Cummins, 11 Nathan Lyon

So Cricinfo following my instructions

But will the tour selectors ? Smith hardly giving Wade unqualified support...

Thing is : if they do dump Wade ; who do they bring in that improves the team ? All gets back to poor squad selection.

[alfie]

Indeed team as expected , O'Keefe and Cartwright for Khawaja and Hazlewood. Bangladesh bring in Mominul for extra batting - don't need two seamers.

Good start for Australia with Cummins tieing down an end and Lyon with two early wickets...21/2 off 14 overs.

[alfie]

Soumya and Mominul restoring a bit of control - fifty up in the 22nd.

No sign of Agar yet. Or Cartwright.