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Message: [QUOTE="BroncsFan, post: 3464479, member: 9052"] It would be nice to future plan, but when it comes to the Aust test team you kind of need to do that by playing them rather than them just hanging around the group. Sweppo was the incumbent second spinner and sat on the bench for about 3yrs only to play 4 matches... now he's dropping down the pecking order and other guys are considered to be jumping above him. Above all else the test team is still a rep side so when it comes time to replace Smith, Warner, Uzzie, etc. you hope that the player gives the selectors enough warning and then you start looking at who's next inline. Head and Green are both in the team along with Marnus so that's 3 of your top 6 under 30yr old. Renshaw is also back in the fold. From that group I'd say Head is a life long no. 5... Green can move into 3/4 with Marnus and Renshaw is an opener. We're not always going to have a young stud like Punter that can come into the team at 18 and stay there for a decade... and because it's a rep team you can still look to debut a 30yr like Hussey did and get 5yrs of quality out of them. One thing that I would like to see as part of future proofing is exposing the next group of players to all conditions... get them playing County Cricket and setup Aust A tours in SE Asia, South Africa, etc. Have them using the Duke ball in Shield cricket and making the pitches challenging. I think they're doing most of this at the moment so we may start to see if it works with the next generation of players, but I'm unsure if the Aust Board is 'sponsoring' players for County Cricket seasons. One thing that still looks to be an issue is our batters inability to play spin, with so many wickets still happening because they miss the straight ones. I'd suggest that may be one of the highest priority things Aust Cricket needs to address. It's harder to do that with Aust A teams, because they may be more like part time players... they themselves have to consider whether they can take time off to play in overseas tours or County... so the ACB need to remunerate them appropriately and that's where the future proofing comes from... who to invest in and for how long do they string them along. [/QUOTE]

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