I like Kiwi's and poms, with some exceptions
Basically keep doing what he's doing for an extended period and try and become more consistent at the same time.
He's only been apart of the side for what? A year? He hasn't established himself enough just yet for me to consider him a certainty. One bad series and he'd be straight out of the line up. Heck, there were reports he was going to be left out of the Adelaide test.
Yeah Warner is a long way from a certainty. A certainty is someone you'll carry through a lean patch - probably only Clarke if we're honest cos another lean patch for Hussey would be the end of him. An extended run of poor form from Warner Cowan etc (probably 5-6 tests) would see them out of the side.
With the exception of Clarke and Hussey, that is the case with our entire batting line up atm.
Watson coming back is not the key to more consistency either imo. He is a bit rocks and diamonds as well.
I still think that batting is not our major problem. Our problem is that we don't have a bowling attack capable of consistently taking 20 wickets. Most test pitches are roads nowadays and you need at least one or two bowlers in the team who have an x-factor about them. Blokes who can prise out a wicket when batsmen are set and the pitch is no help. Our attack lacks that x-factor. Looking around first class cricket, I can't really see it on the horizon either. Australia's next generation of bowlers look to be all line and length on or just outside off stump. You can't bowl that all day and expect wickets to just fall on a flat track. Its ok to bowl that line when the ball is doing something. When it isn't, you need to have something else.
Disagree entirely, because there are plenty of bowlers around. Hazlewood and Pattinson are potentially excellent long term bowlers, not to mention Cummins Starc Faulkner Bird Cutting Couter-Nile McDermott etc etc around.
We lack a spinner which makes sub continent/Adelaide/Sydney matches an issue though.
Wheras the batting stocks are very thin beyond the current test side. Khawaja and Hughes have talent, ditto Burns and maybe Doolan but there isnt a whole lot else around.
