Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[laj]

The Marsh's form line has been poor for a while.  Our players have to stop relying on home results and develop sound techniques for all conditions.

Khawaja has made a step forward in that area.  But the Marsh boys appear to be making the same errors and carry the same technical flaws.... They are slow learners and test level is not the place to learn technique.

A long term average at FC level of what,  35, says you are a mediocre player at best.  Stats don't lie in this case.

I don't want to see the classic selection scenario of carrying these blokes through another poor series,  then they get home and make runs which means they get in another OS tour... Where they are hopelessly deficient again.

If you cant make runs reliably (reflected by a career batting average of at least 40) I'd be trying somebody else. Score lines that read something like 0 1 0 5 178 0 2 6 0 125 isn't what a team can build around and is why Maxwell was overlooked.

Every side is poor overseas. Look at India. They are supposed to be the world's no.1 side. It's usually the rare great sides that win consistently series home and away. When it's pretty even at the top then the home sides tend to dominate. It's difficult to develop techniques for overseas conditions as you don't get those to practice on, and there are so many different types of conditions. We probably win more actual Tests away than most. The current team is pretty much a 2nd string one.