Matthew Hayden
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There's no doubt that he should be in our test team either, in my opinion, just because of the weight of performance.
I mean, form, form,
is temporary classes permanent?
But the reality of it is it matters in cricket.
You know, it's a confidence game.
It's very difficult to come on shore without any form and then hope that your luck turns around.
It just doesn't work that way.
So, you know, potential versus form is an equation that is always on the selection table as a contemporary way to look at how an approach should be, given the fact that
We are and will see in the future high-risk cricket.
I mean, you can't score 10 and over without risk.
I'm telling you that right now.
It is hard to do.
And we expect it from Head and Marsh, and we got it.
So they're the sort of cases that people mount.
But it's also to do with form.
I mean, Marsh himself has showed outstanding form in the short format of the game to the point where his form's kind of been overlooked in the longer formats of the game, which is something, again, the selectors have kind of benchmarked and pigeonholed players into being.
So I think the selection issues have got, you know, some real questions around them and have left all of Australian cricket fans thinking, what happened?
Well, I think the selection for a start, I would have, yes, I think there's people not only back home in Australia that should be in this team, but I believe there's people in that dugout of the Australian cricket team that should have been
in play yesterday.
So for me, you've got Xavier Butler who was dropped in the last game.