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Message: [QUOTE="Fitzy, post: 3690772, member: 9881"] I think it’s harsh I really do and I’m one of McSweeney’s biggest lovers but if you aren’t confident he can face what’s in front of him he shouldn’t be selected. I’m not confident he can at opener. I don’t think with his temperament he has a long future at opener and I don’t think he has a promising short term future to persist. Send him back to domestic, let him do his thing and come back in a more appropriate environment and position for Nathan. For him he is going to have a much more comfortable, natural and enjoyable career in the middle order anyway. Go back to the big bash, have some fun, forget about it. Come shield time go score a shit load more runs, keep anyone in the 3-6 spots honest and his time will come. After that second A’ game when he opened my concerns of if this was the right fit for him arose. I don’t think he is an opener. He was just a sitting duck the whole time. I think it’s really promising how many balls he could face which shows his potential but he just wasn’t batting in a position he could afford to not be scoring runs in both from a personal and team perspective. On the contrary I’m not convinced Konstas will or would do any better. Bring Nathan back in at 6 in Sri Lanka when you want that extra batting quality. Plays the spin well and technique is so important over there. Also offers some decent tweakers alongside Travis. All in all another 4 innings of this and Nathan could be in a far worse position than he is in now. The selectors like him, rate him and are probably very rightfully feeling openings not for him. That’s fine but the reality is the position is just not there for him in this side in the middle order at the minute. Hence he needs to go continue to ply his trade. He got a taste, he has a baggy, he is back to where he was in November. Trying to break into the Australian middle order. Smith and Marsh are on their last legs, Labuschagnes not batting well. There will be opportunities and I think he is far better off suffering this and waiting for one of them then getting 10-15 innings down the track and losing a shit load more confidence and being blacklisted all together. Australias loss is the heats win anyway. [/QUOTE]

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