Agree with all of you guys there. I mean I could maybe understand why they dropped Wade down the order IF they replaced him with another opening batsman. There was really no point at all for Ponting opening with Wade playing down the order, especially as Wade likes to play himself in. I can only think the selectors had already decided that Wade was going to play for the rest of the ODI series so they wanted to play Ponting into some form.
I'm not a 100% convinced about Forrest either but, he has shown when he is in form, he can certainly play, its just a question of how often he is in that form.
I'm not fully convinced about Warner either funnily enough, I think he'll come around eventually but when it come's to ODIs he seem to get confused between batting the full 50 overs and scoring quickly first up. I guess the advantage of Test matches is with the field up in the slips, even if he is defensive, he still scores quickly anyway. In 20/20s with the ring field, he has the licence to slog. Where as in ODI's with the ring field, if he is defensive and tries to bat the full 50, he wont score. If he slogs like in 20/20s and gets out, people are going to jump all over his back.
I think he needs to take a Gilchrist approach, have a carefree attitude, a clear mind and just show his authority to the opposition. I remember Gilchrist would regularly hit the first ball for 4 and also if he got dropped, he would almost always wack the next delivery for 4 just to demoralise the opposition even more.
