Sam McClure

Yeah, probably the reason why they failed to win the series.

But, yeah, so they made a call in this series to stick with him because his form was – his form, yeah, until that 50 he got the other day, it was terrible.

12, yeah.

He batted six in the third game, seven in the previous one, which was amazing.

For all intents and purposes, he was going to be dropped.

I thought I couldn't see a way how he stayed in that team.

You know?

His test contributions, the overall numbers don't look great, but he's made – people forget that India series he made three half centuries against Bumrah.

He actually played Bumrah better than anyone else.

He got two in the Melbourne game and kept Australia afloat.

Yeah, it's possible the men's team's going to slip back to the middle of the pack quickly if progression doesn't come from within, if guys like Connolly don't.

make a rapid improvement and do what he did and then sustain that.

If they can find some younger test batters to come in and replace the guys.

And mainly, I mean, it's the bowling, right?

It's how are they going to take 20 wickets when the cartel and line move on.

In theory, yeah, in theory.

In theory, but I mean, Lyons had huge, blown his calf and ripped his hamstring off the bone and he's 38 and that's happened in the last three years.

Yeah.

Hazelwood can't get on the park.

And Cummins has played one test in a year.