Australia v India, 3rd Test at the MCG Dec 26-30

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Again, the Australian selectors are gutless wimps. They keep trying to pick safe teams which, without our two best players, amounts to a very average batting line up.

Blood youth whilst Smith and Warner are gone. Said this time and again. Yes, our youth stocks don't appear great, but its kind of hard to tell if we're giving test berths to a 32 year old Aaron Finch and 35 year old Shaun Marsh, both of which do NOT have the top domestic averages.
 

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Taking nothing away from the delivery, but what a poor excuse for a cricket shot that is from an apparent specialist batsman.
Massive gap between bat and pad
Closed face
Attacking when he should have been defending
Head falling over

Just poor all round.

Head has some serious work to do on his technique before he is a genuine test batsmen.

Players used to have to work this shit out in shield cricket before they got anywhere near the test team.


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Kids largely just don't care about Test or ODI cricket anymore. From an admittedly small sample size of younger siblings/cousins and their friends who play cricket - they can't stand Test or ODI cricket. Yet, they lap up the BBL as if it's AFL. If young cricketers don't even watch cricket, what hope is there for the game? I'm only mid-20s but their attitudes make me feel old. We would watch hours of Test match cricket each summer. Even those kids who didn't play cricket would listen on the radio in the backyard, etc.
watching the first 2 days of this test you can understand why. Kids these days are used to instant entertainment via streaming shows or online gaming. Why would they want to waste 7 hours to watch 200 runs and 2 wickets. They get more entertainment in 30 minutes on their computer, and it's free and at home
 

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Again, the Australian selectors are gutless wimps. They keep trying to pick safe teams which, without our two best players, amounts to a very average batting line up.

Blood youth whilst Smith and Warner are gone. Said this time and again. Yes, our youth stocks don't appear great, but its kind of hard to tell if we're giving test berths to a 32 year old Aaron Finch and 35 year old Shaun Marsh, both of which do NOT have the top domestic averages.
Nope

Best squad internationals 100% of the time. Were seeing guys like head and finch get worked out. It would be silly to put a 19 year old into this without being ready. This isnt a football team
 

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What happened between having decades of a surplus of batsmen with terrific techniques and now struggling to find 6 decent test batsmen?
It may be simplistic, but I think that was it.
Having so many great batsmen, meant a good proportion of them stayed in FC teams, unable to get a spot in the national team.
That prevented young players getting spots in FC teams, and a domino effect developed.
Alternately, or maybe coincidentally, Australia's admin focus shifted to T20.

When we were dominating world-wide, we ignored the need to foster the next generation (who have appeared now).
 

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Kids largely just don't care about Test or ODI cricket anymore. From an admittedly small sample size of younger siblings/cousins and their friends who play cricket - they can't stand Test or ODI cricket. Yet, they lap up the BBL as if it's AFL. If young cricketers don't even watch cricket, what hope is there for the game? I'm only mid-20s but their attitudes make me feel old. We would watch hours of Test match cricket each summer. Even those kids who didn't play cricket would listen on the radio in the backyard, etc.
Exactly.

This happened to the West Indies and in the 1970's through to mid 90's kids and people everywhere were playing cricket in the streets of Barbados all year round but then the NBA starting scouting for basketball paying mega dollars and Cricket has sadly become a nothing game now after their golden years with the Viv Richards / Ambrose / Richie Richardson / Joel Garner types etc that just dominated on the world stage for a looooonnnng time.

Now you will struggle to see any kids playing cricket in the West Indies while basketball stadiums are at capacity. Same thing is happening here as kids don't care.
 
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