Australian Cricket - Crisis, What Crisis ??

[laj]

I'm not saying use 3 tests, he played there again and now has 8 tests.
An average is just that, it's spread across his record.
He simply does not handle the moving ball. Therefore he never bats long enough.

There is a very good reason he doesn't go on to get centuries, because his technique does not allow it.
He doesn't go out early because he is technically sound but chooses to give it away, he goes out because he can't handle the conditions.
He doesn't have suitable plans for Ashwin, Broad and Anderson.
I'm not saying it's easy, but the best players adapt.
His game is suited to the ball coming on and without sideways movement.

Last England series no-one handled the moving ball. Hence scores of 130 and 60. No good pointing the blame at one person. Thing is he made 5 half centuries on his last tour there, including two scores in the 80's and one in the 70's. Liked a century but there's nothing wrong with that output. We can argue what he can and can't do but those were his scores. Sri Lanka was ok in his last two tests without being great. Certainly went ok in the UAE and definitely good in South Africa. For some reason he's done no good in the West Indies, which should've been the easiest place to bat. He does have 14 half centuries overseas and averages around 37. That's about what many stars average overseas actually.  Needed to go on and make more hundreds as now doing so has brought the overseas average down.