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When President Trevor Höhns close the Australian selectors in the middle of 2006, his departure was not crying too much. Australia was eventually conspired to lose Ashes in 2005 - then you have to create confusion, even if the glory of cricket that has brought results. Selection of chairs are rarely popular, but has become a Höhns estimated audience of his absence. When you answer, the success was helped by a rare talent reserves, but also well-staggered generation of players to retire. In almost all cases, was Höhns that either started negotiations, or take advantage of the players on the shoulder. That honesty and foresight has been applied again in Queensland and Australia through the appointment of President Höhns "Queensland selectors and the director of the state of talent. Cricket landscape, is back away from what is left.
What do you think cricket was at this time than when you close the Chairman of in 2006?
I do not think there is something wrong with the state system. Our state is a competitive industry, we must try to maintain a strong, apparently through the competition shield, but then a second XI. For me, it's all the result of: you need a strong competition and the second XI League Futures. Hopefully, it will be a strong team of the State. And if you have a good state of intense competition, means that the national team is strong, and this means that countries produce players at the door of national selection.
Everyone knows that Australia has gone through a rebuilding process in recent years. Well, we have to stop using that as an excuse and just move on, and states must do their part. They need to be and to encourage the production of children to be good, or try to be pretty good performance by knocking on the door of the national team.
During the period of the young players really had to earn their place in the ranks of state and international, but now seems to have the opportunity to more easily.
A few years ago we had a good amount of depth, which in recent years has expanded a bit. So I think everyone is trying to find a new culture and trying to make stronger than the depth of all time, so many years that they were strong everywhere. We had a good competition of the national team had a farm state of players, bands down the door of selection in the national team, and it was not possible, whereas now there are a lot of luck, so young kids should be able to see and have learned to develop their skills and be good enough to represent his country.
One way has been developed in parallel, but not necessarily in line with Cricket Club and the State in which young children playing talent competitions, visit the Center of Excellence, and then play in the Australia A, then for the team country. Is it better for them to earn their stripes in the Sheffield Shield?
Would you like to win the wounds in the state of cricket and get experience, but I think it's just a legacy of the era we are living, where young players are identified, and they are now being pushed to the national and state level much faster than them, because of the problem with depth.
After the Ash you were quoted as saying you do not think that the appetite was totally there are more batsmen government to sweat through a long inning.
I'm not sure that's necessarily the fault of players. It's just how the game is played these days. There are so many one-day cricket and Twenty20 cricket now, it's just the nature of the beast, I think and the way that cricket is changing. So there is nothing to do with players who do not want to. I'm sure they do, but with all the one-day cricket they play, even the young, junior, they are really grown up a lot of one-day cricket these days.
Very good players can adapt to the shape of the piece, I think, and that's what we have to identify players who are good enough to do that. It is not easy - is a process of selection and coaching.
Twenty20 is here to stay, the format of a day is here to stay, so I just have to keep with it and try to incite or produce players who can change the way you play the game, of course, is the shortest of the game might appeal to some players, but is a process of selection and training.
The Cricket Australia contract system has faced a lot of consideration. A slightly different system already existed when you were president, but the idea of a list of 25 is the same.
We had a lot of depth at the time, but I'm not sure that 25 is the right number. I must admit that I was always told that [President], but it was the agreement that has been done and we had to work with her. To 25 seem a lot to me, and I think the players association and CA need to be a little flexible on this point. Where we go with him I do not know. You and I will not change, it's more a matter for the Board and the players association, I think. There are several thoughts: whether it should be more attractive, about T20 cricket should have separate contracts, there are many ideas and I'm sure they will all these.
Do I need a greater weight of the sales contracts to test cricket to keep the game T20 final compensation money?
I think so. I came out of the loop for a while now, but I guess most players always want to represent their country in Test matches. Of course, the short version of the game, T20 and less than one day cricket, to generate a lot of money, so it's all need to be taken into account, and there must be a balance somewhere.
Longing to return to your last year as president - Have you had discussions about avoiding the blockage of pensions that we later saw in 2007? Australian cricket has managed to avoid this scenario, when Greg Chappell, Rod Marsh and Dennis Little came together in 1984.
Of course, we started talking about it, and it was a matter of identifying and backup players in place, but then I was out of it after the [April 2006] and I know not what happened, if there were discussions taking place between coaches and players at this stage have a gradual improvement.
Until Steve Waugh struggled to stay on the team for one year beyond 2003, the selection was more or less dictated when a player would be long-term retirement. The balance shifted more towards the wishes of the players after that, right?
That's exactly right, and sometimes it is of course through a debate between voters and the player to organize it. But if they can not see it that way, sometimes it is up to voters to support them on the shoulder. You have to do what you think is best for the Australian cricket team. This is not a personal thing, just that you have a job to do and you have to do, how you see it.
You have to work again by Greg Chappell, the former Queensland teammate and now a very influential figure in Australian cricket. How do you see the dynamic between you two?
I think not to worry. I have not had a lot of talk by Greg again. I was with him the other day, so do not think there will be problems with any of this - it will be nice to work with him.
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