16 days until crunch time
June 23, 2009
Where there's a negative there's also sometimes a positive.
The negative of course was our exit from the Twenty20 World Cup, and the positive, the extra time we’ve had to prepare for the tour.
We've been training almost every single day for the last two weeks and using the time to adjust to the conditions as well as the bright red ball and white sight screens.
My body seems to be responding well to the big workload I've been putting on it and hopefully this gives me every opportunity come Test selection time.
As a team we've done a lot of work on bowling with a brand new ball.
There's a mindset going around that you have to get the lacquer off the English 'Duke' ball as quick as possible - this is quite different to how you’d treat the Kookaburra ball used back home.
Troy Cooley is our bowling coach and advising us - ironically, he was in charge of England back in 2005.
We have to get used to the changes but with the hard work put in we can use the brand new ball as well as the older ball more effectively.
The XII for Australia's Hove warm-up match against Sussex hasn't been named officially – but I'll be putting my best foot forward to have a good game and get some overs under my belt.
If I can bowl well here I hope it'll help me get the nod for the first Test match.
I heard the extended English Ashes squad named yesterday and I'm sure the news must have been very disappointing for Michael Vaughan and Steve Harmison.
They are two great guys and two amazing players. A few of the guys - myself included - were pretty shocked to hear them left out.
I wouldn't rule them out for the whole Ashes and we might see them called in down the track.
The team is excited with just 16 days to go. I think a lot of us go to sleep and wake up hoping it's the start of the first Test.
The next 8-10 days are going to be very intense with our to back-to- back four day matches and all the guys are ready for it.
Courtesy: Yahoo!7 Cricket
The negative of course was our exit from the Twenty20 World Cup, and the positive, the extra time we’ve had to prepare for the tour.
We've been training almost every single day for the last two weeks and using the time to adjust to the conditions as well as the bright red ball and white sight screens.
My body seems to be responding well to the big workload I've been putting on it and hopefully this gives me every opportunity come Test selection time.
As a team we've done a lot of work on bowling with a brand new ball.
There's a mindset going around that you have to get the lacquer off the English 'Duke' ball as quick as possible - this is quite different to how you’d treat the Kookaburra ball used back home.
Troy Cooley is our bowling coach and advising us - ironically, he was in charge of England back in 2005.
We have to get used to the changes but with the hard work put in we can use the brand new ball as well as the older ball more effectively.
The XII for Australia's Hove warm-up match against Sussex hasn't been named officially – but I'll be putting my best foot forward to have a good game and get some overs under my belt.
If I can bowl well here I hope it'll help me get the nod for the first Test match.
I heard the extended English Ashes squad named yesterday and I'm sure the news must have been very disappointing for Michael Vaughan and Steve Harmison.
They are two great guys and two amazing players. A few of the guys - myself included - were pretty shocked to hear them left out.
I wouldn't rule them out for the whole Ashes and we might see them called in down the track.
The team is excited with just 16 days to go. I think a lot of us go to sleep and wake up hoping it's the start of the first Test.
The next 8-10 days are going to be very intense with our to back-to- back four day matches and all the guys are ready for it.
Courtesy: Yahoo!7 Cricket
Anyway, good luck Brett: I hope to see you opening with Mitch, then Siddle and Clark first and second change. Let's get that urn boys!
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