Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[malo]

Aus have always had this allrounder fetish to find ourselves a Botham to play at No 6...tried for years with Watson to no avail and seem destined to keep trying with M. Marsh..

That is the issue....it was re-inforced when Flintoff did the job on the Aussies in 2005 as well.  Trouble is, he was an elite fast bowlers who was good enough to bat at #6.  We cannot keep trying bit part players who could not get a gig at one or the other.  Gilchrist didn't even bat at 6 in his career....and he was the one keeper who could have.  But how devastating for the opposition was it for him to listed at #7 !!!