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Message: [QUOTE="Fitzy, post: 3583761, member: 9881"] You are 100% right the system clearly went wayward because only Aaron Hardie and Will Pucovski average over 40 of players not currently in the test team. Thats a problem. But that’s not Nathan’s problem. That’s the countries problem. No point comparing his 501 runs @ 50 to a 1993 youngster because they have more shear runs on the board. Nathan is doing what a top calibre batsman should be doing. So is Cameron Bancroft and Beau Webster this year. What’s everyone else doing? Not Nathan’s problem. Has nothing to do with Nathan’s credentials what so ever. Any 24 year old that can average 50 in a year (he is 3/5ths of the way through so far) with a dramatically improving average of 34 (on trajectory to be 36.5 by seasons end) is not a big issue. That’s the point here that you aren’t understanding (again)Nathan McSweeneys average this year stacks up to those players in that year. Everyone else’s apart from a few don’t. You’re picking the wrong player or even age group of players to direct this inability to produce talent Your tangent is mis-directed at Nathan and my opinion of him. There is not ever going to be a steady influx of high calibre low 20 something year olds. So many factors come into this rather than just straight shear runs. You could just as easily say why is there no 23 year old in the test team right now because there was such and such time ago. Well that’s because there is a lack of opportunity because the 30+ players are currently the best in the world. There is more than just age and runs scored attributing to this. I agree there is a problem with developing quality batsman in this country at the First Class level but that most definitely is not representative in Nathan McSweeney when he is averaging 50 in his second full year. The country has Cameron Green, Aaron Hardie, Nathan McSweeney, Teague Wyllie, Oliver Davies, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Campbell Kellaway, Will Pucovski, Joel Davies, Sam Konstas, Jack Clayton, Ashley Chandrasinghe and the likes all coming through. Not there fault that Peter Handscomb, Cameron Bancroft, Marcus Harris, Nic Maddinson, Hilton Cartwright etc etc to have all been the best of an average crop not to make and stay inthe test side (Labuschagne, Head and Marsh) and yet still be average themselves. That’s the real problem the fact that 25+ year old cricketers just aren’t very good at a first class level in this country. That’s the problem here. Not Nathan McSweeney’s career average of 34 because he has a slow start to his career at 20, that’s to be expected. There’s 2 teams no player wants to touch with a 20ft pole in SA and Tasmania direct your attention to that. That leaves 4 teams to essentially develop all the talent and whilst NSW has all the Aus players the next level of players down are literally asshole and performing ass hole. For the glory state historically of cricket that’s not ideal. That’s then 3 teams producing consistently high quality results at state level which means only 3 teams producing results good enough for test talent to thrive in. The problem is highlighted right there. Also FC and test cricket have to contend with privatised white ball leagues taking top tier talents attention away from red ball cricket. Money will always talk but it appears the youngsters I referred to earlier are starting to set there eyes back on the coveted red ball format which is always good for test cricket in this country. [/QUOTE]

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