What Needs To Be Done To Get Australia Back On Top In The Icc Test Rankings?
Well Australia has lost the ashes and dropped to 4th in the test rankings! As an Aussie, it hurts, but I cant help but think this could be best thing for test cricket in a long time. The entire series was captivating from start to finish. In a way it was the reverse of the ‘89 series(AB’s team that went over with no chance but came back victors). This time we had the better team, technically, and the final stats showed it, but we didn’t get the prize. How can this happen? Who’s heads should role? Ricky? Selectors? Coach?
Sack the Arm Chair Selectors along with Ponting.
Blood in new talents and have a programme to identify talents, nurturing them and blooding them at every opportunity so that young talents do not emigrate. Create good bench strength.
Bring in comaraderie, unity and , gelling back into the team. Punter has cracked the unity and de-gelled the team. Sack non-performers, who ever he may be.
Sack the selectors,keep Ponting as captain,get rid of Clarke Watson
Kattich.Hussey i don’t think can handle pressure at all, and should also go.The Hauritz equasion would not have made a bit of differance.He may have got one or two wickets and probably 5 runs at the crease, at the end of the day about as useful as an ashtray on a motorbike.We need a good specialist spinner in the Warne catagory
and 5 or 6 top line batsmen.We lost because we did not have a quality specialist spinner and we were consistently let down by our batsmen.
To make Clarke captain would be a monumental mistake.He is absolutely over rated, and i think he is Merv Hughes love child.
Well Australia can get back to top, but after a long long time….
I know my sentence sounds a bit scary for you, but all the blame goes to carelessness of the Australian selectors by completely ignoring youngster-senior interaction….
In our Indian team, guys like Gambhir, Raina and Sharma have learnt a lot from Tendulkar, that is why we are doing better than Australia…
Well… let’s see then….
If Australia seriously wants to make a deadly comeback, then only HARDWORK is their key for it…..
First they have to get rid of the selectors. There is some dead wood there and Hussey has to go. Running out his captain, that was the turning point in the Australian innings.
Selectors have to go. So should the coach. Blind Freddie could have seen last Thursday that it would be a spinning wicket. The number of no balls bowled by the bowlers was terrible. At least they didn’t cost us a game this time, but they didn’t help. CA have always been reticent about taking captaincy off a player and keeping him in the team. Look at Bill Lawry in ‘71 and Ian Chappell in ‘77.
What do I think is dat now Aussies have to work very hard as top of ICC rankings not a bed of roses any more.
New but Classic players hav to be selected as the old nes are no more capable
New captain & selectors hav to be chosen
I guess Hussey will be a good leader
Arrange five test match series against Bangla Desh and Zimbabve. Arrange a series against Pakistan and fix the matches. Let Australia gain some points and they can jump to the top spot.
agree toally with Krishnam. No good blaming the pitch,curator,media etc.
Boot Ponting and get some team spirit happening. Pick on form not favorites.
And finally dont sweat the small stuff …Its only cricket
It will be a couple of years, but once those talented young guys waiting in the wings hit their straps we will be unstoppable once again. Mitch Johnson and Phil Hughes will be ICC no1 players in the future, trust me!
Well imo the decline started in 2005. We had McGrath, Lee & Gilllespie as our front line attack with Warne as our trump card. Gillespie was dropped mid series, admittedly because of bad form. But why was it nearly 2 years before he played another test? This is a bowler who had worked with & learned from McGrath, arguably Australia’s most consistent opening bowler in the last 50 years, and his experience would have been a good thing in this series, when by all rights he & Lee should have taken their place as McGraths successors.
So we have no Dizzy, an injured & lacking in match practice Lee (who ultimately did not play in any of the tests) and an inexperienced pace attack. Of course the same could be said of Warnes departure, McGill was too old to be seriously cxonsidered as Warnes successor, so who did they bring in for Warne to tutor? Nobody, absolutely noone.Therefore #1 problem = Piss poor planning by CA ( NB: Apologies to Nathan Hauritz who performed admirably this series despite not being given enough opportunities)
Ricky Pontings leadership this series has swayed from brilliant to shoddy. Persistence with part time spinners in Cardiff when wickets were required as an example of the shoddy & the total domination shown at Headingley the highlight. Unfortunately overall very inconsistent and often not leading from the front. Michael Clarke take note lest you fall into some bad habits…
And finally the selectors, whom I should group within problem #1. Any casual tv observer on the morning of the opening day of the 5th test could see that the pitch was very dry & was likely to break up ( I guessed by day 3, fyi ) and take turn. Yet Hauritz was left out. The only specialist spinnner taken on tour is left out on a pich that looks like a Mumbai special… WTF!!! He had already shown the doubters that he could do the job, yet it seems no one on the selection panel had any faith in him.England had the foresight to name Swann (Monty may have been considered too but his county form has been poor recently) and reaped the rewards on a wicket that wasn’t perfect, but both teams had to use it. The selectors just made it that much harder than it needed to be.
So in closing, if we can sort out the problems above, we can get back to where we were as a cricketing nation. However I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for it to happen…
Aussies can come back within a year, to achieve this they have to do few changes in the team.
1. Change the CAPTAIN. Can any one tell me how many test series wins the current CAPTAIN has to his credit. Do not tell me that we do not have Hayden, Langer, Warne, Mcgrath, Gilly and so on..
Since he has taken over from Steve Waugh, he may have one or 2 good test series victories to his credit (Most of them are on home soil).
2. New Batsmen need more time to settle in the team. Phil Hughes was playing well. Why do they have to drop him to bring a player who is not at all played in the opening slot in the longer version of the game before.
3. The Senior and junior combination should be in balance for all the matches they play. (Both batsmen and Bowlers).
4.Finally, stop blaming and whinging about the pitch, dubious Umpire decisions. Concentrate more on your performance then results will automatically be there.