Mitchell Johnson shows his disgust upon learning he will be forced to play for Malevolent Eds and Corrupt Cabinet
Wasim Jaffer - 36 Jordan Silk - 29 Kane Williamson - 41 Subramaniam Badrinath - 39 Shivnarine Chanderpaul - 52 Andrew McDonald - 34/32 Prasanna Jayawardene - 35 Seekkuge Prasanna - 22/34 Kyle Abbott - 16/26 Mark Davies - 10/31 Junaid Khan - 4/28 Just spit balling off the top of my head. Can't remember stats.
1. Alviro Petersen 37 2. Michael Carberry 35 3. Ravi Bopara 30 40 4. Virat Kohli 50 5. Suresh Raina 30 50 6. Wriddhiman Saha 30 7. Johan Botha 20 40 8. Kyle Hogg 15 33 9. John Hastings 15 30 10. Ryan Sidebottom 10 30 11. James Anderson 5 27 12. Harbhajan Singh 20 35 13. Andy Ellis 30 40 14. James Vince 27 45 15. Ned Eckersley 27 16. Aaron Redmond 27 17. Veerasammy Permaul 10 32 18. Jack Brooks 5 35
Because it's fucking Harbhajan, must have been off my head on something when I made that pick. Keeping it tight and lacking penetration>>>>bowling pies, getting tonked and picking up all your wickets caught at long on. In reality Botha, Ellis and any of the 3 reserve bats (Bopara 5th bowler) have a chance at the No.7 spot, depending on how the trials go. Also have a sneaking suspicion Permaul is easily my best spinner and might be sneakily good in this, that's probably just a desperation thought at how dire my spin situation is though.
Yeah I thought the reason for selecting Botha ahead of him was because he didn't trust Harby to bat 7. But if he thinks they'll average the same with the bat... I think I'd bring Harbhajan in for Botha and then bring Ellis in for one of the specialist seamers. Ellis can bat 7 then so the tail doesn't start so early, and he'd still have four seamers and a frontline spinner.
