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[Buzz]

Just looking at the current match and it appears that the Aussies picked Hughes instead of Khawaja

Please can someone explain why Marsh wasn't promoted to opening with Watson, Ponting back at 3 and the rest as was? Techinally Marsh is in a differnet league to Hughes who has a sting of low scores to his name and can't play the short ball.
As for Khawaja he has been one of Aus' best players on tour... I suspect that Hughes and Clarke are mates or something, but seriously, I don't understand the selection policy at all.

The Hughes hundred has shut me up somewhat!!
Good to see Michael Clarke score some runs too, I think he is a wonderful player to watch.

[Manormanic]

not sure what the Australian selectors hope to achieve with Hughes, but they clearly see something int eh lad and have decided to stick with him through hell and high water.  It seems an odd one to me personally - Marsh is an opener, Hussey was at the start of his career and there a lad called Nic Maddison (sic?) scoring loads of runs for NSW who seems like a candidate, but you have to admire their tenacity.  And, from an English perspective, it worked with Cook when he had a rotten couple of seasons, so you never know... 

[Liam-SCCC]

I finally find out it's on tv and catch the last 2 overs of the series!

[tim2000s]

The Hughes hundred has shut me up somewhat!!
Good to see Michael Clarke score some runs too, I think he is a wonderful player to watch.

But you could argue that Hughes is scoring runs because of the bowling attack and against both SA and English attacks, he finds it much harder.

[Buzz]

Hughes scored two hundreds against SA.
Cook only had a rotten summer against two brilliant swing bowlers.

But intrinsically I think Hughes is not that great...

[langer17]

Marsh should open and Khawaja should be at number 3 or 4. Hughes technique is just terrible whereas both Marsh and Khawaja have very solid techniques.

[Buzz]

Marsh should open and Khawaja should be at number 3 or 4. Hughes technique is just terrible whereas both Marsh and Khawaja have very solid techniques.

I think so too. But with this hundred he has played himself into the team for the Aussie summer and a series against a relatively toothless Indian bowling attack. Unless Zaheer and Instant Sharma bowl out of their socks... It will also be interesting to see if Ojha gets picked ahead of Harbhajan - certainly on form it is a no brainer.

[Manormanic]

Hughes scored two hundreds against SA.
Cook only had a rotten summer against two brilliant swing bowlers.

Appreciated Amir and Asif were quality bowlers, but his record before that was not so classy either - he only averaged 24 in the 2009 Ashes and struggled against Banglasdesh at the start of the 2010 summer to the extent that a lot of commentators were calling for him to be dropped. 

Not saying the two are the same - Cok's technicaly flaws were relatively minor compared to Hughes inability to get in line with anything approaching medium pace, but the attitude's of the two sets of selectors are very similar.

[Buzz]

he may have had a poor ashes - like most of the eng team, but he scored two hundreds (173 in chittagong and 109* at Dhaka) in Bangladesh and as captain won every game... cook's technical floors come from a very complicated tripple movement trigger and his head not always getting inline with the ball - mostly getting too offside and thus he loses the location of his off stump. Cooks issues were massively blown up in the press. see http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/11728.html?class=1;template=results;type=allround;view=match
Hughes doesn't get half the abuse in the press...
Hughes' technical floors start with the fact he can't even hold the bat properly, let alone get in line or play the short ball!!
however as he still scores runs he must be mentally pretty strong, which would explain he getting picked.