I agree the players aren’t good enough to match Australia. But there are some talented players here too. It’s up to management to get the most out of a player, that’s pretty much their job description. Under the right management group I think one or two of the players in the squad might come good.
That’s obviously just my opinion and major changes still need to be made to the scheduling and the core players. I don’t know how this group of players can get the monkey off their shoulders. It’s not possible but I’d be inclined to just replace the 10 (minus root) for the final 2 tests and see if the English lads in the Big Bash want a test and tell them just to play with freedom.
Surely that can’t be worse than 68 all out.
Your right it is a management role to get the best out of the players we have but replacing them with short form names will not build a side for tests.
As much as this may not make any sense now I would still pick the young batsmen, our bowling seems the best compared to batting over the last couple of years.
I would keep these and hopefully the come good, I cannot see any other option
Malan has done ok
Hameed
Crawley
Lawrence
Pope
Sibley
Root
Stokes
Out go
Butler
Bairstow
Burns
Keeper Foakes.
I don’t actually think Crawley is an opening bat but Malan could move up.
There is no way Root can manage on his own, we need a good coach to guide young players.
Silverwood and Giles have simply got to go.
That’s what I think anyway, we have actually got worse as a team over the last 2 years