How much change does Australia's batting line-up need before their next Test against India? - SEN 

I've never understood why great players like Smith whose record is 67 at 3, decide to go down to 4...I know his record is also great at 4, but he belongs at 3 and that's where he can look to control the innings. Same thing happened to Brian Lara - averaged 61 at 3 and then spent most of his time at 4 and averaged 51

What have you got Marnus on the thumbnail for? His 90 was crucial in our second test win.

I don’t know why Cummins bats lower than Starc. In Cummins’ bat I trust.

I seem to recall Ian Chappell saying to always select the best 11 players. I think the current team is the best 11. I'd open with Carey and Khawaja and I would encourage Carey to play his natural free flowing game. I think giving him this responsibility would bring out his best. He is batting too low at 7. Then it's Labuschagne, Smith, Head, Green, Marsh, Starc, Cummins, Lyon and Hazelwood. Batting Marsh at 7 would further encourage him to play with freedom in his swashbuckling style with the tail to follow.They are a great team! That's my 2 cents worth.

Simply we leave things alone, all doinant teams carry 1 or 2 players out of form ...... looking for perfection will not work. Winning on slow green wickets in NZ with 0 prep was a great result. Losing test matches will always happen, winning series is really tough. Very happy with my Aussies ...... questions? yes ..... aging bowlers in a long tough series worries me a little

that 4th inning average stat floored me

Why wasn’t the series 3 test matches and a test match in Auckland

Australia needs to try and Promote Cameron Green as an Opener in test cricket He's got enough skill to Negate the early swing also very tall lad more reach to the ball got enormous power game in him to thrash the ball through covers and straight down the ground if it's pitched up... Give him all the freedom he needs back him up to not worry about the technique or playing to the situation and condition, let him attack the opposition bowlers out of the game from ball one, just like Virendra sehwag did for India, Look at Crawley and Duckett they are not half talented and gifted as Cameron Green but just by looking to score runs quickly did make them a better version of themselves so Australia must try Cameron Green in Opening position at least against some weaker opponents 🙏🫡💪 Also... Steve Smith As an Opening Batsmen may work in Australian conditions he may score some runs here and there but in the long term and for his own benefit of form he needs to bat as no.4 batsmen in test cricket where he scored truck loads of runs to back it up... (If it ain't broke, don't fix it)

The next Ashes will be very interesting if England can come with an attack not relying on Anderson. It feels like Australia may lose a lot of these players quickly, who could we confidently predict in the Aussie test team in four years? Marnus, Cummins, Green, probably no one else. The opening batsman is a conundrum which is hard to give a solid answer to right now, feels like Smith is not the answer though, batsmen don't go up the order suddenly in their mid 30s.

Australia will play the next test with the same 11 against India unless someone's injured. I agree Inglis may have replaced Carey if he didn't make a decent score in the last test against NZ. Inglis might have been able to open instead of Smith if he was selected. Now there won't be a change and Smith will want to prove himself at the top of the order.

Agree with Whately but time on this one. Head needs to open.

Australia needs more bowling allrounders to improve their batting.

Pride comes before a fall. That was the highest point this Australian side will reach without change. Losses to India, Sri Lanka away and England loading.

‘Buttock-clenching statistic’ 😂. Kiwis are a good fielding side except against Aussies, suddenly the dropsies come in when big brother is standing over you.

Need Smith to start coming in at 3 again. Why is he the one to always keep changing positions for team balance? Its not doing any good for team or him

Thease english and australian media, commentators are so obsessive of there teams that they lost the nuetral, unbiased, balance conversation. Take for eg this chat, after talking so much about aus vs nz series at the end the guy in front ask the person on other side any thoughts on eng vs india test series 4-1'loss for England. The guy rection was oh, i think the next ashes will be very interesting.between eng vs australia as australia players will be old blah blah 😜🙂. My god, he asked you about result of ind vs eng test series dude. They are just on steriods all the time 😜

As much as they like to call this as one of the all time best Aussie team, it definitively is not. The ponting team in 2000s was much more solid and balanced. U had Hayden and langer, ponting, Martyn, michael Clarke. Combination of attack and defense.

Aus won the series 2-0 with 4 of our batters in pretty poor form. Calm down. Seriously, we were given a huge reprieve that their form didn’t cost us the series. Just look at it as two freebie wins and when we play India in 8 months, they’ll become good again. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Smith took 2 years off test cricket and came back better than ever. No reason he can’t do the same in December

You could put marsh to open

Just one correction: Smith will not play 8 months -> There is a Sri Lanka series before the one against India

Smith is done need to blood a younger player otherwise half the top order will all retire at once

I have lost complete faith in cricket Australia and the influence of the woke Cummins. 3 players caught cheating in SA. Two continued to play for Aus. One, Bancroft, the best opener and most inform batter in Australia gets continuously overlooked. It’s a complete travesty. He should immediately play and Smith dropped and retire.

All this carry on for not selecting a specialised opening batsman, ego's have got in the way and now it is ongoing damage control, Head, March or Green are not opening batsman, again it is going to be another quick fix. Smith proves the importance of a specialised opener, he has no idea where his off stump is now and has the audacity to keep reviewing middle stump dismissals.

Too many overpaid prima donna batsmen in this Aussie side.

Reality check: do the aussies have a B team that they can pick from?

Drop Smith for McSweeney

You people are all delusional. Bancroft, the best opener and most inform batter in the country opens. Smith retires. Simple.

Bumrah will destroy Smith 😢