Australian batting
Whilst we seem to be surrounded by history at the moment with Sachin's tremendous achievements uppermost I wonder whether we are seeing more crumbling in Australia's ranks. Much has been said about the retirement of Warne and McGrath and the search for replacements especially in the slow bowling aspect but I suspect too that there are concerns about the batting with Hayden having made 0,13 and 0 so far and they must at least suspect that Watson is too high at 6 ? Hope these words don't come back and haunt me in the summer !
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The Aussies have strength in depth in their batting so I think they are ok there despite the fact they were bowled out twice in the last Test (they have the best Test number 8 and 9 in the world in White and Lee). The time will come when Hayden needs to call it a day, but just because he fails 4 times in the first two Tests doesn't mean necessarily that time is now. Is Sean Marsh really more likely to get runs than Hayden? If he is, then I'd argue that they should make the change after the series as the negative effect of changing who has been around mid-season will be worse than any potential extra runs.
Their bowling though looks ropey. With Clark out, the Aussies are left with Mitchell Johnson as their most dangerous bowler and that shows they have real issues. Their problems are that they don't really have that many pace options to go with their complete lack of spin options. So your concern about Watson is more, to me, that they seem to want to use him as a 4th seamer to bowl as many overs as the mainline bowlers - I don't think he's up to that from a quality point of view, and on top of that his fitness is suspect.
I'm sure England will find ways to get dismissed for less than 300 each innings next summer though!
:-)
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