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How do the other guys fit into the picture moving forward? Holder/Blackwood/Mayers etc. and Seales. What does a best XI look like in the future?

As an activity I tried picking an even sub average AUS XI below with an option to replace 1 player for a legend: Burns Harris S.Marsh Voges North M.Marsh Paine Clark Hilfenhaus Bollinger S.O’Keefe Hayden, Ponting, Miller, Gilly, Warne, Cummins. Who would add the most value to this side? I’d...

Tough question, my instinct says #3 or spinner. I think of the great teams in my time. Current Aussies, 2000’s Aussies, 2010 England, 2012ish Saffas, 2018ish India. They all had greats in multiple positions so hard to call from that.

Think you missed my point. I think our team is great. But go back 5 years and the cupboard was bare then, nobody would have predicted our current 11 would have looked like this and been so good. No reason we won’t still be great in the future just because there’s no obvious talent shining through.

Anything can happen. Could have said this 5 years ago. How would our current team have looked from back then. Smith - retired or too old, lost his eye. Khawaja - already done Marnus - who? Green - nothing more than a prospect Head - maybe if he can sort out his technical flaws Marsh - lol Carey...

Wisden’s wicketkeeper of the year not even keeping for his country.

Yeah he kind of gets forgotten because of this. Came through when Sachin/Ponting/Lara/Kallis were established greats, by the time ABDV was established himself the hype had moved on to Smith/Kohli/Root/Kane who were the next big things. Clarke/Amla etc also fall into little 'in between' window.

Yeah. Just actually looked up Stats on Das, Was obviously thinking 2022 performances. Same for Mitchell 2023 not as good as I had in my head.

Test team - Would consider Daryll Mitchell and Liton Das.

I always look at Anderson's career in 2 halves. 1st half average at best, 2nd half elite. Look at the last 10 years alone. 91 matches, 347 wickets, ave 22.22 (home 21.76, away 23.88)

This. It's also a psychological thing. Creates a feeling 'sharp fielding' on the batsman to increase the pressure. 'no easy singles' sort of mentality.

Even more than Warner...

Yes he is.

Babar Azam 71 @ home (Pak) 39 @ away Counting UAE as home 59 @ home 39 @ away

The Big Dos can’t understand the Aussie batsmen trying to stick around after being 2/5.