Dawid Malan

You have to look to learn from your mistakes.

But if you've practiced something for three years to suddenly turn around and say, actually, do you know what?

Let's just chuck all that away.

Let's just chuck the players that we've picked to play that way and ask them to play a different way.

I think that becomes incredibly hard sometimes.

So that should have been a discussion that they've had before they came to Australia, that they wanted to play a tougher brand of cricket, that they were going to probably knuckle down a little bit more, that they were going to leave better.

They were going to make Australia bowl more overs, which in turn in Australia makes batting a lot easier the later you bat.

So to answer your question, yes, I think it makes it incredibly difficult to change the way you're doing in the game, especially with the type of play that they've picked.

Yeah, it is.

But it's a tricky one as well.

As a modern player, to find the time to keep playing warm-up games and practice games, as well as all the tours that you have and all the franchise tournaments.

So it is incredibly difficult to find that.

I would question, and there's been a lot of talk, I'd question why a lot of the players went to New Zealand for the White Bull Series.

I would have said they probably should have come out to Australia and sort of parked that White Bull Series to some extent.

And given that as a second string event,

English England team because there's so there's so much depth in white ball cricket in England that they could have taken a team out there and brought all those white ball players to Australia and given them more time and probably had more time to prepare against the proper opposition if they were able to get that and I know that's been the argument as well is this Sheffield Shield games and

Australia A and what have you who they're actually going to play against so if they can get that scheduling right in future I think it's going to be be worth it but you know the modern player does find it hard to play what is it 15 test matches a year plus ODIs plus T20s plus franchise cricket plus your domestic stuff when you have to play I think they play the hundred majority of them as well now so

to then add another two warm-up games makes that schedule incredibly hard and means that you're away for longer periods of time and you're probably under a lot more pressure mentally to perform leading up to that.