Our bowlers will keep us in at least some games, Ussie and Smith aren't done yet, and Head has turned the corner in the last two years. We need to find some more quality at the top of the order, and the only way to do that is to blood prospects. It is unlikely that we are going to have many dominant batting innings for a little while, but there are no other options.
The powers that be have wasted a year and half chasing test silverware, this rebuild should have happened as soon as Warner retired. They should have really been looking to the future well before that, they knew this was coming given the age of our players
They definitely rolled the dice to a degree, but there also hasn't been too many really stand up and demand to be picked.
They should have interviewed all the older players (which is half the side) to find out what their retirement plans were & staggered the retirements so we didn't have the same thing happen when Lillee, Marsh & G.Chappell all retired at once. The selectors were too scared to make the hard decisions.
He should never have been picked. It was a diabolical decision by selectors gambling. There were 3 alternatives when Warner retired who were in form & they wanted to keep Green in the side, so they stupidly put old man Smith in to open which was never going to work. Older players should move down the order not up. Then when the decided that the Smith experiment failed, the 3 openers had lost form, perhaps because they were despondent for not being picked when Warner retired. It's easy to upset the balance of things when you have dumb selectors.
CA have messed the whole system up. They had it right in the early 00s, but they have tampered with pitches, balls & prioritised T20 cricket. Now the bowlers look great, but it is more that the batsmen & pitches are really poor. If you took any of the test sides from now & transported them back 20 years, they would be demolished, possibly even by Zimbabwe.
It seems to have a lot of uneven bounce. Poor Head got a shooter tonight. He had no chance. Glenn McGrath would love this pitch.
It overstates the bowling capabilities. The bowlers are made to look good due to poor batting techniques around the World & ordinary pitches. They aren't all-time greats as they are being made out to be.
