Unfortunately, sometimes it looks like they're more interested in keeping their favourites in the team than picking the best team for Australia. I firmly believe that they simply will not give Jaques another go in the near future because deep down, they know that if they do, he'll show their "favourite" Katich up yet again as he did in the one opportunity he got this year.

It's a similar sort of situation with MacGill. He's simply not one of their favourites. It was scandalous the way Ponting treated him in the tests this year. In the second innings in Adelaide, he didn't even get a bowl until 7 wickets were down and Warne had already bowled about 30 overs for 5 wickets. It looked to me like a conscious effort was being made to make certain he didn't get a bag of wickets, because he was going to be left out of the next test in Perth.

By the way, Hohns and some media people today mentioned that Phil Jaques' poor fielding could be the reason he's not in the team. WHAT? Have they seen Katich???

My one day squad of 14 would be something like this:

Jaques
Gilchrist
Ponting
Symonds
Clarke
Cosgrove
Hussey
Watson
Hogg
Lee
Bracken
Clark
and 2 out of White, Lewis, Tait, Gillespie