you ppl need to remember in the the ashes series he got some poor desecions against him. and lately he's been in awesome form in the odi's and 20/20. I dont get y he got dropped from the test team in the frist place. it should of been katich dropped first.

Originally posted by saadadvanced7 that's not fair. they dropped him for 10 years. they wasted 10 years of his life. that's harsh. he is a good player and might have deserved to be dropped after the ashes but he doesn't deserve to be dropped for 10 years.

that perfectly right why waste his life init

Originally posted by capital_s I don't know what the selectors have against martyn. Maybe he's not enough of a croud pleaser. He might have been one of aussies greats had he not been dropped in '92. I noticed in his stats he played in '92 and then didn't play for another 10 years or something like that. Man thats harsh!

He was dropped after a close game ended in a loss for the Aussies (against South Africa?) and he was deemed to be a culprit, playing a poor shot to get out near the end and so was dropped for that amount of time.

Originally posted by saadadvanced7 ok, gilchrist was out of form but he's the best keeper in the world so they couldn't chop him. hayden was out of form but he has great averages and at the end managed a big ton so they couldn't chop him. gillispie was out of form and was already chopped. so the last one left to chop was martyn.

What about Katich? Clarke? Gilchrist the best keeper in the world. I really hope you meant the best keeper-batsman in the world, as fine player he is he is not the best gloveman around.

there were clearly a lot more players than just martyn who were out of form and avoided the chop saadadvanced. the selectors needed someone to blame for the loss and thus took it out on martyn.

no one is asking you to fix the problem, i'm just pointing out that it was a slight injustice, and this is the general feeling in Australia regarding Martyn's sacking

the thing with Australian selectors is once you're dropped its probably unlikely you're going to get back into the team. The careers of Jason Gillespie and Martyn are all but over - look at Michael Bevan for example who dominated domestic cricket last year (average close to or on 100 in the First Class game) and did not even get a look in.

Plus Martyn had some pretty dodgey decisions in the Ashes, a couple of times there were clear inside edges which the umpire failed to pick up and he was given out LBW. In terms of strokeplay, Martyn was probably the best Australian batsman to watch in this team, the most like Mark Waugh in terms of finesse. Its a shame to see him dropped