Wednesday, December 20, 2006

The saddest thing a Cricket selector can say...

We have no succession plan

If there was anything clearer in the way the Australian Cricket team was chosen after the retirement of Damien Martyn, it was the statement above.

While Andrew Symonds makes a decent contribution, he is surely not the first person to be installed in the team if the selectors are looking to the future, and his contribution is not that indispensible (as would be the contribution of a MacGill in replacing Warne). Once again I will ask why not blood another exciting young batsman. The bowling stocks are slightly deeper with Lee and Clark well and truly in the race for a few years.