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Originally Posted by Cwocwoc
I don't go along with this building a side stuff. Every now and again talented players emerge and England are having a purple patch in that respect and Australia seem to have hit rock bottom. I expect the luck will turn around again (hopefully in not less than twenty years !).
So true. I have no idea why we suddenly have such a great crop of fast bowlers. So much of that must just be down to chance.
However we did use to waste an extraordinary amount of talent with poor selection/management decisions and that seems to have stopped.