Matthew Hayden

So that's exactly what can't happen.

You know, so there's a talent that has got the potential to play 70, 80, 90 tests.

There's a talent that is homegrown, that has got hands that are magnificent, that's a beautiful athlete, got grace and form, something that we saw beautifully last night, didn't we, from the Sri Lankan team.

They just move so beautifully across the surface, and that's such a key asset.

It's almost a God-given asset as opposed to a trained asset.

I'll give you a great example there.

Jamaica, it looks like everyone can run about 9.8 metres a second, let alone that in terms of their 100-metre efforts as well.

So what I'm really saying is that I just feel like at the moment Cricket Australia need to have a look at their schedule

and they need to be able to manage their number one and primary resource, which is cricket talent, and find a way to just be a little more insular, a little more controlled, and a little more destined and built towards the purpose of the Australian cricket team.

Well, I mean, he's a franchise player.

He plays across the world, but unfortunately, he's been in that system of franchise cricket, which...

I believe it's just kind of pigeonholed him into one role, and that's a power hitter.

Right.

You know, so last night we saw a lot of great hitting.

I'm not going to say we didn't.

We did.

But what we did see is some bloke, and his name was Bhattamasankar, that batted and was not out 100.

And then we saw another guy, Kusar Mendes, who manipulated strike and involved himself in a partnership, which didn't allow Australia to get back into the game at any stage.

Australia have taken four wickets in the last two games.

Four wickets.