IS AUSTRALIA BECOMING THE NEXT WI?

I personally don't know the greatness of the WI team in the 80's and in the early 90's but,I have heard of it all.The tall lanky fast bowlers, the agrressive batsmen and the great winning strip.

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Still WI houses a decent portion of world cricketing talent with individuals that can easily find themselves in squads of any othert top cricketing nation .Chris Gayle, Chandrapaul, Sarwan, Bravo and pollard are easily some of the talented individuals...who are playing contemporary cricket. Still the performance of WI is too poor.

For Australia I know how dominant they were in the late 90's and almost throughout the next decade of 2000. But that dominance i diminishing and they are currently ranked 5 the lowest they have ever reached.

By the signs of it,Australia take T20 loosely. FOR eg; not putting enough pressure on the current captain Michael Clarke about his batting form and coming up with an unsettled team even after years of the contest being run( other teams too have the problem but Aussies are Aussies!).They too have some wonderful talents, POnting is one of the greats, clarke is one of the better middle order batsmen playing the game, Hussey is also a phenomenon and they always come up with other aggressive new talents like White and Johnson.But still they are not finding the right tune to find a  winning strip.

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WI still had service of Lara, Walsh, Bishop, Hooper when they began plummiting .Once they retired WI never took up( probably the WICB never thought they were going so deep).So I feel the same psyche is within the ACB. They are trying to push with Ponting( searching the right time to choose Clarke as a test skipper is also a problem....but the officials are there to solve it ...or what?). I think the time has arrived,to bid good bye to Ponting (as a skipper) after the ashes( whatever the result be).Ganguly was shown the way at proper time by the Indians and that has shown effects in the foolowing half decade where India has become no.1 in test and retained it against the Aussies.

The aussies should also look at strengthening their bench strength.Their are too many uncemented seats in the Aussie line up.Moreover, ACB officials should look to promote new talent...especially they should have given chance to Paine ahead of Haddin( after doing fabolously well in the tough Indian tour) after all Haddin is no Gilchrist and should be checked while and again to bring the best out of him.

So, Australia should know they are not the current no.1 and that is due to some reason. They should find out this reason fast and solve it dynamically.Otherwise who knows we have two WI competing against each other after a decade.