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AUSTRALIA have mapped out a long-term plan to have their best players in action for so-called ''icon series'', while matches that are deemed less important will be used to develop new players.
The formal introduction of different selection guidelines for different opponents and formats, revealed to the Herald by Cricket Australia's team performance chief Pat Howard yesterday, takes the new rotation system to another level, and is sure to provoke debate given Australia last month lost a Test to eighth-ranked New Zealand in what was earmarked as a development series.
''We do look at different series differently and obviously we took the Indian series very much about trying to drive performance, so if a player was touch and go we'd probably push him for this series knowing that if we had to rest him for part of the ODI series, so be it. For New Zealand we took more of a conservative approach, took the chance to get people right,'' Howard said.
The formal introduction of different selection guidelines for different opponents and formats, revealed to the Herald by Cricket Australia's team performance chief Pat Howard yesterday, takes the new rotation system to another level, and is sure to provoke debate given Australia last month lost a Test to eighth-ranked New Zealand in what was earmarked as a development series.
''We do look at different series differently and obviously we took the Indian series very much about trying to drive performance, so if a player was touch and go we'd probably push him for this series knowing that if we had to rest him for part of the ODI series, so be it. For New Zealand we took more of a conservative approach, took the chance to get people right,'' Howard said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket...r-big-tests-20120108-1pq7f.html#ixzz1itfdaGkk

