Ian Chappell says something useful (The problem is domestic cricket)

[PowerBug]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/908285.html

In an interview with ESPNcricinfo, Chappell said Australia were now worse off than they were before the Argus review of 2011, and he has forecast dark days ahead due to the lack of batting depth in the domestic system.

"Every time I hear people say the batting is better now, I nearly throw up, because the batting is not better. The hitting is better, but the batting is not better. We've seen that with Australia. The art of survival is on the way out fast. I don't blame the young guys.

Worth a read, haven't watched the video above I assume it's the interview.

[henry]

Is that quite an old article? Could have sworn I've heard him say the same thing a while ago. Hardly radical either, a lot of people in the media predominantly former players have been saying similar things. Pretty overdramatic to forecast dark days ahead, we can hardly get worse than our Edgebaston and Trent Bridge defeats, and even then we seemed to learn from them in the last match. The lack of batting depth would be a bit of a worry, but it's not as if there's noone there - Burns, Bancroft, Khawaja, Whiteman (as a keeper, Lynn, Head, Silk are the first of the young guys that come to mind. Our pace bowling stock is the rivalled by pretty much everyone else, and Lyon keeps improving as is a very decent spinner. Really quite over dramatic I think. I would love to put Burns in for Clarke at 5 and give Bancroft a long stint opening, he's only 22 or something would love to see how he goes, I think his style would compelement Warner's.

10000% agree with the second quote though, batsmen are impatient and don't know where the off stump is and are not willing to leave a lot of balls when it is moving around. They want to score and dominate straight away, not prepared to grind away and survive for a couple of hours then cash in later.

[Grazz]

10000% agree with the second quote though, batsmen are impatient and don't know where the off stump is and are not willing to leave a lot of balls when it is moving around. They want to score and dominate straight away, not prepared to grind away and survive for a couple of hours then cash in later.

Spot on mate spot on.