After suffering a humiliating defeat by India in Perth, it's time for the Australian cricket team to reconsider its conservative team selection strategy. Fans are now angry and vocal about the team's poor performance and are demanding changes to prevent such failures in the future.
Keep calm and carry on? It may be time for Australia to shift from default setting after thumping by India
Now, those supporters are angry. They’re swarming talkback lines, writing to papers, voicing disdain in pubs. They can’t stand a team looking incompetent, they want to know what will be done to avoid that happening again. And they have a lot of time on their hands, with no Test player due to face or bowl a ball at any other level in the interim, while a Sheffield Shield round plays out with plenty of potential replacements on display.
So Andrew McDonald’s press chat after the Perth Test won’t have done anything to help. Their preparation? Happy with it. Their position? Sure, “a bit of work to do”. Changes? Same squad, no worries. Jasprit Bumrah’s bowling devastation in a best-on-ground performance? “He was good.” Being battered on the scoreboard? “Sometimes the margins don’t really reflect what happened in the game.” In this game, the margin very much reflected what had happened.
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