Sam Perry
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to these situations which were bespoke and discreet.
They decided to fuck off Renshaw.
They didn't use Smith.
They instead backed the boys who'd got it done before, including Cameron Green.
And they've come unstuck.
And I do think there's a level of arrogance to that.
I do think that it's easy to say in retrospect, but Steve Smith would have been a better selection than Cameron Green, who was not bowling, at least in this game.
In this situation, Renshaw missing out, I think, is...
deliberately ignoring form and horses for courses selection, also left-handed for this situation.
But you are talking about fitting Smith and Renshaw into a 3-7 of Green, David, Inglis, Stoinis and Maxwell.
You probably would have had to get rid of Cameron Green and Glenn Maxwell.
They've obviously decided to go with the guys that they'd invested in in the last year or two.
But they were not the right guys for various reasons.
for Sri Lankan conditions.
They've made a mistake there.
They probably thought, look, we'll have enough.
And maybe they're entitled to think we should have enough to beat Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, but they have been absolutely pasted by them.
They've taken four wickets in two games, and those four wickets have gone three to Stoinis and one to Green.
Absolutely, for Australia, yeah.
So...