No player was able to reach three figures and captain Tim Paine says a deep pool of batting talent is currently a ‘fantasy’
With the Australian captaincy, Tim Paine has already been handed one of the hardest jobs in the country – even in the cheeriest of times, it is seldom a picnic. So it is perfectly understandable that he doesn’t want to do as several of his predecessors have by signing himself up as a formal selector. Not now, at least. Not when the job of picking this team is one of the most scrutinised in the country.
As substandard as some of the sectorial answers have been since the fateful day in Cape Town, the questions – in the short term at least – are increasingly puzzling. Paine knows this, realising that the best he can do right now is mine for positives, both in a couple of months, when he has at his disposal two of the best players in the world, and further into the future when trying to calculate the longer-term benefits of blooding batsmen before their time.
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