It's fair to say the selection of Nathan Coulter-Nile for Australia's squad for the First Test against the West Indies has raised some eyebrows in the cricket world. The 28-year-old paceman hasn't played a single Sheffield Shield game this season due to injury then suspension, but has been preferred to Jackson Bird, the Tasmanian currently leading the Shield wicket-taking table and who would have been playing on his own track. Victorian coach David Saker didn't mince his words, calling Coulter-Nile's selection "ridiculous", while even chairman of national selectors Rod Marsh admits the Western Australian's inclusion has been based on "gut feel" rather than actual...
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