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Message: [QUOTE="Sproj, post: 2984050, member: 8423"] [USER=8290]@Unbreakable[/USER] summed it up pretty well. And you are right of course about wholesale changes but this is an unprecedented situation. The only two genuinely great bats in Australia are suspended and the other heads are not actually that good - S.Marsh, Ferguson, White. The best current bat is a keeper who has not done that well at test level previously. The only batsman assured of a spot is Khawaja...and he’s injured. Very, very few batsmen even average 40, let alone 50 and the one young potential star is taking a break due to mental health reasons. So, you have to choose the best of a very, very bad bunch. The only other name not mentioned is Patterson and while he is actually probably the most consistent overall, he is a very poor man’s Joe Root, can make 50s (occasionally) but can’t go on with it. No all rounder is good enough and I just can’t stand Stoinis, he’s too beautiful. Labuschagne is the best bowling batsman it seems but he isn’t really good enough at either to even justify being in consideration, let alone now being a test player. So, in short, the pace bowling is stacked (though I wonder if that is inflated by such poor batting) but the batting is absolutely woeful, no Siddons/Hodge/Dussey sitting around waiting in the wings anymore. [/QUOTE]

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