Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[Professer E]

I don't see it that way LP, I've seen a few of our boys at close hand and they are fair dinkum tough competitors.  However, the IPL is a serious distraction for the fringe and second tier bloke, the "I'm not going to play tests, I need to make hay while I can types".  No more grinding away in the shield for 10 years trying to bridge a skill gap a la Hussey or Rogers, it's now a couple of games for the state and straight off to Chennai or Kolkata etc. 

I feel that the test players have been so  overloaded by .... noise (for want of a better word)... from on high that they have forgotten how to (a) play and (b) win.  FFS, what bozos up the food chain took decent, really quiet kids like Bancroft and Smith or Peter Handscombe or Burns and got them so wound up that they tried to be in your face hard asses???  Be yourselves, not something you ain't.

It's pretty simple really ... pick the best side (not the selector's and coaches favourites) and just play cricket.  Less over-thinking and more doing.