Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[malo]

Fair points, I dont mind Tim Paine as a cricketer or individual but I just think we went overboard in trying to clean up the mess left by Warner etc...Aussie teams function better when we have some edge to our game and have a little bit of mongrel but still stay within the rules.

I think we more to move more towards the attitude taken by Border in '89......he made a conscious decision to say nothing to the poms, not to interact with them in anyway, even though on previous tours he had been mates with quite a few of them...  Certainly there was stuff all sledging compared to subsequent captains, but that completely hardnosed, driven approach made it quite plain to the poms that he was there for 1 thing only.....to win.

And yes, Wade has to go to England as backup keeper/batsman.  Sadly they can't afford to throw Carey to the Lions yet given the shortness of England tours these days.  No scope to take players on Ashes tours for experience anymore.