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but people do expect the players to perform somewhere near to their potential, which is not something I can say about Ponting, Clarke, Katich, Siddle or North in this match, and they've been consistently inconsistent for the last 18 months.

In which case it could well be time to accept these players have reached and left behind their potential, 18 months is a long time and a lot of innings where you have time to make good again.

KP and Strauss to name a few have been dropped and sent away to work hard domestically and only when form returned were they allowed back in.

In my opinion, Katich should not be in the side ever, Ponting should have been dropped last year and Clarke and North needed to go away to their districts and knuckle down. The problem with this is that it leaves a huge gap which Aus cannot fill.

Who is waiting in the wings? a kid with 2 ODIs under his belt? come on.