Australian Cricket Coach Aims For Smooth Transition Towards Youngsters As Current Team Gets Older

As Australian Cricket Team gears up to play Border Gavaskar series against India, ar massive issues plagues Aussies and that is regarding s of current players and transition towards youngsters as y come in. Australian coach Andrew McDonald does t want to have a messy situation when all of current players decide to call it a day on ir cricket careers. He recently emphasized on how he wants a smooth transition in Australian Cricket.

Andrew McDonald On Smooth Transition In Australian Cricket 

Australian men's cricket team that will take on India in a five-match Test series from vember 22 is one of country's oldest but chief coach Andrew McDonald is aiming at a smooth transition by time his freshly renewed contract expires in 2027.

aver of Australian team is around 33 and in next couple of years, re could be a mass exodus just like it happened in late 2000s when Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Justin Langer, am Gilchrist and Brett Lee all retired one after or.

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According to cricket.com.au "with Travis He (in December last year) and Marnus Labuschagne (June) both recently celebrating ir 30th birthdays and, with incumbent Cameron Green unavailable for coming home season after back surgery, Pat Cummins could le a team that features all 11 players older than 30 if Marcus Harris or Cameron Bancroft gets d to open batting."

McDonald understands implication of an ing team and is alrey thinking about way forward.

"People take it back to 2007 when mass players have exited and y've struggled to obviously perform at same level – we're t beholden to past," McDonald told reporters on Thursday.

"I think if you get selections right on back of players exiting, n transition is lot smoor." In suggesting "one-day cricket can be bridge to Test cricket", McDonald forecasted likelihood of leing Test players continuing to sit out bilateral limited-overs series on occasions.

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current Australian red-ball side comprises seven players, who are all d between 33 and 37. 

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Josh Hazlewood, Mitch Marsh and Alex Carey all are 33, while Mitchell Starc (34), Steve Smith (35), Nathan Lyon (36) and Usman Khawaja (37) are reaching fag end of ir careers.

McDonald believes in a senior cricketer helping out a junior to ease into set-up in transition process, and as long as a senior performs, re is reason to change it.

"We're big believers that within that – if you want to call it transition – that older, more experienced players assist those younger players when y come through changeroom," he said.

"So it's about making sure that we don't exit senior players too soon and lose that kwledge within that playing group. That's incredibly important for us to get that balance right," he ded.

McDonald called it "future proofing" team.

"Our mindset is always about … future proofing in team. We've h opportunities in bilateral (white-ball) series to expose that next generation.

"Test cricket has been slightly different, we have been really settled and almost predictable in way that we have gone about it. That's t a b thing … we're number one in Test rankings.

"It's very hard to change a settled team that's performing really well." 

(With PTI Inputs)