Very Interesting read & provides a good insight to Cricket fans across the Globe towards how the Current Cricketing dynamics in Australian Cricket work, Nicely written - Great Going Sam (been a fan of You & Higgos since Grade Cricketer Gabba when India & Pant pulled off an impressive & unbelievable victory)
“.....this generation of the Australian men’s team has been their strident rejection of old school Baggy Green culture”. And for that we must all give thanks. I still cringe at the memory of Steve Waugh insisting his players wear the BG when they went to Wimbledon one year. There they were, all lined up in a row looking like right nonces. Were they proud, sheepish or just plain embarrassed, who knows, but you could never imagine Cummins insisting on it.
As for where Smith bats; he is an elder statesman with nothing to prove. Volunteering to open was a selfless act but he doesn’t need or deserve to be facing Bumrah and co with a new pill. Let him bat at 5 or even 6 and bring Bancroft in as a specialist opener. Green should stay at 4 as the anointed “next big thing”.
Very Interesting read & provides a good insight to Cricket fans across the Globe towards how the Current Cricketing dynamics in Australian Cricket work, Nicely written - Great Going Sam (been a fan of You & Higgos since Grade Cricketer Gabba when India & Pant pulled off an impressive & unbelievable victory)
“.....this generation of the Australian men’s team has been their strident rejection of old school Baggy Green culture”. And for that we must all give thanks. I still cringe at the memory of Steve Waugh insisting his players wear the BG when they went to Wimbledon one year. There they were, all lined up in a row looking like right nonces. Were they proud, sheepish or just plain embarrassed, who knows, but you could never imagine Cummins insisting on it.
As for where Smith bats; he is an elder statesman with nothing to prove. Volunteering to open was a selfless act but he doesn’t need or deserve to be facing Bumrah and co with a new pill. Let him bat at 5 or even 6 and bring Bancroft in as a specialist opener. Green should stay at 4 as the anointed “next big thing”.
Those Baggy Greens at Wimbledon! Embarrassing at the time and not got any better with age.
Hey Sam, why not a specialist opener like Renshaw or Bancroft