The results wouldn't change. I know Marcuss shares my opinion - both of us were polled in the above poll.
I'm a little bit concerned now about the fact that my best batsman are all probably batting one spot too low but I think that there'll be enough injuries that it won't matter too much.
I'm pretty happy to get Scott Styris this late. It gives me a really good back up batsman should one of my main men fail and, despite his lack of bowling success in recent times, it gives me a player capable of batting top 7 and throwing down dome overs as the 5th bowler should Watto get injured.
As can be seen below, my lads don't excel quite so well in the Test match arena: 1. Chris Rogers (1 Test: 19 runs @ 9.50) 2. Andrew Puttick (0 Tests) 3. Salman Butt (33 Tests: 1889 runs @ 30.46) 4. Shane Watson (26 Tests: 1870 runs @ 41.55, 42 wickets @ 31.00) 5. Matt Sinclair (33 Tests: 1635 runs @ 32.05) 6. David Hussey (0 Tests) 7. Matt Prior (39 Tests: 2030 runs @ 41.42) 8. Ryan Harris (5 Tests: 42 runs @ 8.40, 20 wickets @ 24.40) 9. Brett Lee (76 Tests: 1451 runs @ 20.15, 310 wickets @ 30.81) 10. Ajantha Mendis (15 Tests: 151 runs @ 13.72, 61 wickets @ 31.93) 11. Mark Davies (0 Tests) 12. Nathan Hauritz (17 Tests: 426 runs @ 25.05, 63 wickets @ 34.98) 13. Scott Styris (29 Tests: 1586 runs @ 36.04, 20 wickets @ 50.75) My most successful test batsman will stride to the crease at 7.
I'd argue that Mendis, Hauritz and Styris have all had some success at Test level. And Harris has, even if it's been in a very small sample size. My team's definitely been picked with a view of a fc comp though.
Haha it's funny really. I look at that batting lineup and think it's gun but there's so little proven Test quality in it.
I've got very little doubt that Chris Rogers and David Hussey would be averaging in the 40's right now if they had have been given a decent run in the Australian side though. I will agree though that it lacks that real star international batsman that most teams have.
