Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[JonHenry]

Heard Warne talking about this today, and I thought he made some good points. Once guys get to Test level you can't change their technique, very minor cosmetic changes only. It's all above the shoulders at that level. He was concerned about what is happening at academy level, with the teenagers and how they are being coached. Noted that when he went to the academy there was Ian and Greg Chappell doing the batting coaching, Rod Marsh for keeping, and Dennis Lillee for the fast bowlers. I'm not sure who is there now, but I doubt we have that type of quality

It's been obvious for some time that the "Centre of Excellence" has lost it's way.
As Marsh said, they moved it to Brisbane for better weather and then spent $25m building an indoor stadium.

Far too many cricketers there, trying to justify the number of coaches employed, training for the wrong types of cricket.

I would move the "Cricket Academy" to wherever Ricky Ponting wants to run it from.
Pay him what he wants and give him a budget to bring in the best of the best.

Reduce Big Bash back to what it was, and promote shield cricket for the first time in how many decades?
Big Bash should not coincide with any test fixtures.

A shield player that plays all games should be paid more than the average AFL player, after all there are only 80 odd players.