australian cricket has lost the plot, page-21

Our policy is to push older, accomplished players out and give undeserved young players a green cap. Meanwhile, Sachin, going on 40 is still worshiped and the media and selection panel don't put any undue pressure on him. Kallis is afforded the same treatment. He actually found it strange how much our media make of our players having to retire. We, on the other hand, pushed Ponting, Katich and Hussey etc out just to cheapen and give a kid easier access.

I wonder how we would have performed in the last 2 tests with those blokes. And what a great learning curve it would have been to have such experience to blend with our up and comers. Nice planning by the ACB sending such an inexperienced, unskilled squad. Great succession planning!