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Message: [QUOTE="Bull Shark, post: 2463370, member: 7690"] See this is the thing I don't understand because I think raw "talent" is only a portion of what makes great cricketers. I always believed ( from my teenage days reading 'Inside Edge') that our system - ie the cricket academy & our Shield competition - was what set us apart from the rest of the world. We had young guns like Shane Warne, Damien Martyn, Justin Langer ect ect all spilling out of the academy and even the guys who didn't go that route like Matty Hayden were well and truly groomed for test cricket via the grind of shield cricket. Heck, for a long period there in the late 90's and early part of this decade, we probably had at least two XIs that were superior to the second best test nation in the world at that time. So why in 2012 are we suddenly in a position where we aren't producing players who're test match worthy ? Are we still working and pushing as hard at development levels as we were in the 90s ? I haven't heard squat re the cricket academy for years …. What I'm trying to say is, in this day and age where sport and athletes are so far advanced on what they were even 15 years ago, why is cricket in Australia so far behind what it was 15 years ago ?? [/QUOTE]

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