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Mitchell Marshs immediate Test future hinges on the vagaries of Hobarts weather, as a pressured Australia wait until match morning before naming their XI to face South Africa at Bellerive Oval.In a scenario that echoes the prelude to the fateful fourth Test of last years Ashes series at Trent Bridge, the selectors Rod Marsh and Darren Lehmann are waiting until the last possible moment to name their team, leaving the captain Steven Smith unable to announce his line-up, as is customary, on match eve.Marsh is likely to play as a fifth bowling option should Hobarts weather forecast clear up and allow play on the first two days. However if the current prognostications hold true and rain blights Saturday and Sunday, Callum Ferguson will be set for a Test match debut as a sixth specialist batsman alongside four bowlers.Well wait and see what happens in the morning with the weather, Smith said. You might not need to have that extra bowling option if theres going to be lots of rain around and the bowlers are going to get some adequate rest with that. Theres possibilities that we could go in with six genuine batsmen but well wait and see in the morning when we can have another look at the wicket and what the weathers doing.South Africas captain Faf du Plessis said any signs of Australia abandoning the balance provided by an allrounder was going to be helpful to the visitors, who have fought their own team balance battles in the wake of Jacques Kallis retirement.Allrounders are fantastic to have in your team, we had Jacques Kallis playing for us for all those years and it just makes the balance of the side so much easier, du Plessis said. So I suppose they are looking at our team and what we are doing playing specialist batters and specialist bowlers, so it would also be nice to have an allrounder as well. So if they are changing it then that means that is a weapon that they do have in their team and if they change that, then thats good for us.Even if Marsh does play, it appears likely he will be demoted in the batting order to No. 7, swapping places with the wicketkeeper Peter Nevill. That change would grant Nevill the same commission he holds with New South Wales as a top six batsman, while also allowing Marsh to play with more freedom at seven. Yeah its possible, Smith said of that change. It just depends on which XI we end up with for where guys will bat. Well wait and see with that one.Smith admitted Australias confidence levels may have dipped over the course of four consecutive Test losses, the sort of sequence that has historically cost the job of the captain or the coach. I guess its a tough one, we obviously havent played overly well in the last little while, he said. Were finding ways to get ourselves in positions where we should be able to drive the game, but were not executing well enough in those moments to take the game away.Were getting in those positions, which is a positive, but we need to find a way to make sure we really nail a team when we get on top of them. Were letting oppositions back into the game too easily. Thats one thing weve talked about here, if we get in front of the game - make sure we take the game away from them and dont let them back in.To that end, Smith said he was looking to see members of the team take the game on at critical times, mirroring the efforts of Kagiso Rabada, JP Duminy and Dean Elgar in Perth. I think thats something that Australia has done very well in Australia for a long period of time, Smith said. Weve been able to score big first-innings runs and identify those moments when we can take the game away from an opposition, and weve been able to do that.We just havent been doing it of late, thats something weve got to turn around. We have to identify those moments first of all and then when we do that, we have to execute well enough to take the game away from the opposition. Thats one thing we really need to work on.One intriguing element of this week has been the presence of Australias former batting coach Michael Di Venuto in Hobart. Despite a strong record and robust rapport with the players, Di Venuto quit earlier this year to become coach of Surrey after being reportedly declined a request for a pay rise from Cricket Australia. He was replaced by Graeme Hick, but Smith said Di Venuto had been taken back into the confidences of the batsmen this week.Its nice to have him back around the group for a week in his hometown, Smith said. Hes a magnificent batting coach and I know hes really enjoying his time at Surrey at the moment as head coach. Thats fantastic for him. Its nice to have had him around and have a little bit of a chat face to face about batting and whats going on with all that.A few of the boys have had some throws from him, which has been great. Hes an outstanding batting coach and its great to have had him around to work with this week and be able to talk some good stuff about batting. Michael Thomas Saints Jersey . After a replay, the winner will meet Sunderland in the quarterfinals. Sagbo did well to control Sone Alukos right cross and fire past Brighton goalkeeper Peter Brezovan. Aluko was making his first start in four months after recovering from an Achilles injury. Erik McCoy Saints Jersey . LOUIS -- St. http://www.shoptheofficialsaints.com/Elite-Ted-Ginn-Jr-Saints-Jersey/ . Oaklands loss to Seattle clinched the ALs best record for the Red Sox with one day to spare in the regular season. 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Broad was just a fresh faced 21-year-old when he made his debut at a sultry Sinhalese Sports Club ground in Colombo, wheeling through nearly 29 overs and being in the field for 146.5, before claiming his first scalp of Chaminda Vaas, on the hook and edging to Ian Bell in the slips.Three hundred and fifty nine more dismissals have followed, moving him to within 23 of Sir Ian Botham in second place in the all-time list of England bowlers, behind James Anderson. India vs England November 9, 2016, 3:30am Live on Get Sky Sports Get a Sky Sports pass But it certainly says something about Broads longevity in the England team is that he is just the third bowler of Englands 14 players to reach the 100th Test landmark, pointing to the patience of the selectors to allow him to flourish.It has been alongside Anderson that Broad has been most potent. He has played 89 of his 99 Tests with the Lancastrian and he has an average of 3.6 wickets per match, the same as his much vaunted colleague through his career. Nasser Hussain labels Stuart Broad an England great Broads record on home soil is where his dominance lays - 232 wickets at just 26.54, with 11 of his 15 five-wicket hauls having come at home, and a strike-rate of 51.67.His statistics away from home are indifferent, both with ball and bat. He has 128 wickets at 32.01 on foreign soil at a strike-rate of 66.22, while he has just one half-century in 63 innings with the bat, averaging 15.58.But it should not be forgotten that Broad is one of just four players in Test history to record two hat-tricks, and the only Englishman. Stuart Broad celebrates his first of two hat-tricks in Test cricket, against India in 2011 Australian off-spinner Hugh Trumble was the first, both against England at Melbourne two years apart, while legspinner Jimmy Matthews achiieved the feat in the same game at Old Trafford in 1912, for Australia against South Africa.ddddddddddddIt was 87 years before it happened again when Wasim Akram claimed a pair of hat-tricks in back-to-back games against Sri Lanka in 1999, and then Broad joined the party with his sensational double.The first, in the midst of a spell of five wickets for five runs in 31 balls against India at Trent Bridge in 2011 sent England on their way to a 319-run victory, while his second, against Sri Lanka at Headingley in 2014 which was spread across two overs, he didnt even know about!Of course, many England followers will remember his incredible feats with the ball - who can forget his demolition of South Africa at Lords in 2012, smashing New Zealand with 7-44 at Lords in 2013 and easing England to an Ashes victory at Durham later that year.And then there was his destruction of Australia again in 2015, on his home ground of Trent Bridge, when he took 8-15 to remove the tourists before lunch - sensational stuff! Stuart Broad celebrates Ben Stokes amazing catch during his 8-15 against Australia at Trent Bridge It is not all just in England that Broad has set the world alight though. His 6-17 at Johannesburg to cut the top off South Africas order as they were bundled out for 83 last winter was his career-best on the road.It is those superb individual performances that has seen him collect nine man-of-the-match awards, a record only surpassed by Sir Ian Botham (12) and Kevin Pietersen (10).But none of those awards came until his real breakthrough series against India in 2011. His 34 Tests prior to the start of 2011 saw him average 27.40 with the bat (including his career-best 169 against Pakistan at Lords) and 35.24 with the ball, with 99 wickets.Twenty-five wickets at 13.84 came in that India series and since, you can see the huge boost in his confidence - 261 wickets at 25.92 in his 65 Tests from 2011 onwards is testimony to that. Only in 2012 did his yearly average climb above 30 again.Broads record against some of the best players in the world shows that not only does he love the big occasion but he loves the big moments too. Auastralias Michael Clarke has fallen victim to Stuart Broad the most often in Test cricket Just ask former Australian captain Michael Clarke, who Broad removed 11 times at an average of just 23.81, while AB de Villiers has fallen 10 times to Broad, averaging only 16.30 against him.Ross Taylor (nine), Chris Rogers and Shane Watson (eight), and Hashim Amla (seven) are other to have suffered the wrath of the world No 5 ranked Test bowler, who did climb to No 1 earlier in 2016.So congratulations to Stuart Broad, a talisman of line and length and the unrivalled king of the DRS review - Englands 14th to 100 Tests, Test crickets 65th, and the 16th bowler with over 200 wickets.That is quite a club to be in!England take on India in the first Test of their five-match tour, in Rajkot, from 3.30am this Wednesday on Sky Sports 2. Watch the complete Test for £10.99 with no contract, with a Week Pass from NOW TV. 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