Silver lining for Sandpaper-gate: Our ODI team may improve

Finch should be given the shorter formats captaincy back after he was unfairly robbed of it before the '16 t20 world cup. Captaincy wise there are no other candidates anyway. Smith should however return to the team as a batsman in a role similar to Root for England, solely due to his batting capability, and no one else looks better than him anyway. Given lesser responsibilities Smith should be more relaxed and better able to perform for a longer periods of time without breaks.

Stephen, I agree it's a golden opportunity for CA to experiment with separate coaches and captains but I don't think you need a completely separate selection panel for all three forms of the game, unless you have a central panel of 3 selectors nominated by CA and they are supported by the relevant captain and coach. The captains to me should be Paine (Tests), Finch (ODIs) and Maxwell (T20s). The Test coach is a lottery but I'd give Ponting a go at both ODIs and T20s. He's clearly demonstrated a gift to coach these forms of cricket and would also bring the spirit of cricket into these teams as well. I wonder if Steve Waugh would coach the Test side for 18 months? He'd have the players respect and would also be a strong advocate for any reform of behaviour

people go on about seperate coaches. I agree we need seperate Test and short-form head coach but do we need a seperate head coach for ODI and T-20? I'd say no. So have a Test coach and a ODI/T-20 coach who will do both roles in the short form game and a selection panel for short and long form. All this is well and good but it will mean more costs. You think about it eg head coach/bowling coach/batting coach for each of the three formats plus selection panels $, it all adds up in operations costs.. And a fielding coach who will float between each of the three teams floating. And do we get a wicket keeper coach and a spin coach and a fast bowling coach, on top of full time fitness coach and video anylsis coach..

That T20 team we picked recently and which dominated New Zealand and England here and in New Zealand, will surely make up the bulk of the new faces in our once-stale 50-over team. Lynn didn’t do anything and hardly played and we still smashed them and bowled quickly and straight and threatening, and fielded well. That squad - which is far easier to look up on google than the list of past international cricketers who have been caught ball tampering - is our best bet. As for the coach? Who cares to argue about it - CA will have another favourite old boy lined up to do it anyway.

Mitch Marsh needs way more evidence he can consistently score runs. He got shown up by Time Paine of all people this series, and was pointless with the ball.

Marsh captained WA in this years JLT ONE DAY Cup and that's it not enough captain experience for mine 1 year of captain and he should be captain of Australia no way and Cummins has never been captain one should be vc then take over in 2 years if not 3.

Don't know why many people reckon a coach could be overworked handling all three formats. Having said that I'd prefer Jason Gillespie as coach of the Test and one-day sides, with a proviso, and Ricky Ponting for the very few T20 games they play. The one doubt about Dizzy is that he stuck up for CA boss James Sutherland, who should have been the first to go when this ludicrous business blew up. But he may be just foxing and angling for the job while Sutherland's still there, hopefully not for much longer. Punter showed his expertise on the shortest form with his illuminating analysis during the Big Bash, where he gave the Channel Nine buffoons a salient lesson into doing a job they are incapable of. I don't think Punter would want the full-time gig anyway but he could turn a revamped T20 side into a real force. If Ten get the TV rights, as they should given Nine's insistence on sticking with the dross, Punter would be the main commentary man, preferably alongside Michael Holding, with the likes of Gilly, Mike Hussey. Damien Fleming, Mark Waugh and Andrew Symonds able back-ups (with a couple of not-so-token women in Mel Jones and Lisa Sthalekar). Visualise a Test series without Nicholas, Slater, Healy and Chappell prattling on. The only ones worth poaching would be Bill and Warnie (if he was ordered to talk about nothing except the game). Back to the point of this exercise, it's interesting that Dizzy said Smith should not lead the side in the future. Smith's not much of a captain anyway and too valuable a batsman to bugger around with, but he'll probably only miss -- at most -- the three winter Tests against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh. It would be a travesty, and an utterly foolish move anyway, if he was suspended for the summer. Warner shouldn't return to the Test or one-day teams, not through his blockheadedness in setting up the whole dopey episode but because he has so obviously lost the respect of the rest of the team. That would transform him into the so-called T20 mercenary that many are predicting, alongside the likes of Chris Gayle. But he could still run out and have a slog for those few internationals in the hit and giggle format, which only attains the slightest hint of gravity with the World T20 for a couple of weeks every two years anyway. He's a pretty handy fielder too, it goes without saying. As for the captaincy, Paine's not a long-term proposition. The keeper doesn’t need the added burden of the captaincy. Don’t forget that Timmy — rightfully our new golden boy for the silly bloody media and fans alike — will turn 34 in December and has a history of injuries, a badly broken finger as well as elbow and thumb problems. Usman Khawaja presents a dilemma. He's experienced enough and had a stint leading the A side, but is far from a good thing to be picked against the Indian spinners. Aaron Finch could lead in the short forms but it would be better to look to the future. Mitchell Marsh should be in the running, despite his poor form in South Africa, and Pat Cummins is quickly firming from a bit of a left field pick to be in the forefront of contenders. I'd be happy with either of them and they could even split the job -- say Cummins for Tests and Marsh for the one-dayers, in which Cummins would regularly be rested, and T20s. Kind of a two-man band at the helm. Loads of pundits reckon Marsh is not up to the job but he's a good enough bits and pieces player who gives the impression he could blossom with the extra responsibility. And he's the only with sufficient experience as a state captain. Cummins turns 25 next month, appears to be over his injury problems, touch wood, and is now our key bowler. Funny no-one's talking about the GOAT. He's got to be a rough chance, surely.

Finch will captain the odi and t20 sides mate Mitch marsh is nowhere near finchs level as a captain marsh was captain this only never before and bailey dream on.

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Finch Short Khawaja Hughes Stoinis Maxwell Paine Agar Cummins Starc Coulter Nile

Agreed. The pressure of an Ashes summer plus plus plus is a contributing factor to the team’s performance and the poor decision making. We can’t expect guys to get up for a 5 test Ashes before end January and then back up in February and March to play 4 tests in SA. With the benefit of hindsight it was poor programming

There has to be separate Captain, Coach, Team for Tests and ODIs, T20Is henceforth.