Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[JonHenry]

To be fair, the time Ponting is referring to is an absolute golden generation of talent.

The Grade Cricketer has a running joke that most commentary from those guys (eg. Waugh & Warne, not Punter who I think is an excellent commentator) boils down to “why don’t they just go out and dominate... like us?”

Cricket is a lot different to the 80’s & 90’s... a lot more cricket is played in India... spin bowling is far more prevalent... we have to adapt to 20/20... i’d hope we are adjusting to the new reality. Evidence suggests we aren’t.

Why do we have to adapt to 20/20?
The Australian cricket team is not judged on its results in 20/20.
What the players do in the Big Bash or IPL is of little consequence.
Maybe the golden era was a result of preparing the players, for the first time in Australian Cricket history, in the right way?
Then we stopped it....