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In RSA Dave Richardson's sucessor is a matter of some concern, with many
players being tried and proving disappointing - Although one would like
to see the RSA team grooming a sucessor, there is no hurry as long as
Richardson isn't injured, I don't think we should be in a hurry to
discard the most consistent keeper in World cricket.

Simon.

have written:

[snips]

PS - Yes, Wellham was a bit of a wally on Grandstand....

cheers,

Mic. (http://www.iap.net.au/~tiger/)
Cross Purposes Studios (Web & Graphic Design)

You must stand for something, or you will fall for anything.

It does appear as if the Gilchrist push is definitely on. One wonders
what Ian Healy has done wrong to deserve this. I'm getting a little
annoyed with people so willing to discard experience from the side
like they have been suggesting over the last two seasons. Boon was
pushed and has now been replaced by a non performing Ricky Ponting.
Don't get me wrong I think Ponting has exceptional talent and may go
on to bigger and better things, but I'm worried about a young out for
form batsman at first drop against an experienced (a little older but
still deadly) West Indian pace attack.

Now we want to drop Healy for Gilchrist, a man who has basically no
experience keeping to Warne, purely it seems on the strength of his
supperior batting talents (how many times has Ian Heally come through
in a crisis with his batting. Barbados1995 springs to mind when is
innings assured Australia of big first innings lead and setup the
first test match win and the rest of the series). By all means
consider Gilchrist for the one day side. I think that would be a great
introduction to international cricket, but if he's there because of
his batting talents then he better be performing better than other
batsman around the country.

Just on another note. Coming from NSW and being on the end of constant
critcism about automatic selection for the Australian side if you play
for NSW, one wonders how big the push would be if Gilchrist was still
playing for NSW.

I dare you other states to deny Michael Bevans place in the Australian
side for the first test.

On another note again. Did anyone here Dirk Whellams comments on the
Australian side on Saturday. I'm almost ashamed this man captained
NSW. He suggested dropping Salter to 6 and promoting Mark Waugh to
opener for the test match. He almost insisted Slater had been dropped
from the test side last summer and it was only after a bit of
convincing from Jim Maxwell that he considered he may of been wrong.
Keep this man away from the selection panel. He did however sensibly
discard any notions of Heally being demoted from Vice Captaincy

Sorry this message is a little long..

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