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Message: [QUOTE="Fitzy, post: 3416288, member: 9881"] Australia has an empty generation of batters. That has been hidden up with by Labuschagne’s emergence and Travis being able to perform long enough to keep his spot out of question. We took Warner and Smith out of this team and we couldn’t turn to anyone. Khawaja was our standout in ODI and Tests. Nic Maddinson shits the bed with every opportunity he has had. Our veterans are over the bridge and the blokes scoring 100’s have either already proven they can’t make the jump to this level, are to old, or are to fresh. The 25 and under group have to step up quicker cause there isn’t really anyone between smith and heads age bracket who have proven they could be a definite option as depth or to play full stop. White ball cricket did that to us, money is in white ball cricket and we lost a generation to that. We are making up for that now and you will see that the blokes who are next up are all previous failures and or young blokes who are killing it. I love the tradition but quite frankly we can’t rely on the 26 year old plus players to get us out of this cause they just haven’t done shit at Shield level and for those who have they completely shit the bed at test level. Our best batting options are keepers and all rounders. Our batting stocks have taken a hit and as such yoh can’t really use borderline unprecedented quick bowling stocks to compare what sort of batters should be being picked. We will be sorry if Hardie, Phillipe, Sangha and Hunt don’t get a couple games of test cricket before the current crop of players who have kept us on top retire or get to the wrong side of the form/age ratio bracket. I’m sorry but really Phillipe, Hardie, Maxwell and lesser of an extent Sangha are the only players out there who consistently enough perform at Shield level and haven’t already shat the bed at test level. Untraditional approaches will need to be taken and it makes it so much harder to understand why we are going into such a crucial transitional period with for mine such an underwhelming head coach. [/QUOTE]

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