Cricket_god said:System polishes the talent no system produces talent mate its just hype about australian system.It is going to be still hard top beat australia at home but away they are going to stuggle big time specially in sub continent.
I agree, but to be honest we've found it hard to win in the subcontinent even with McGrath and Warne. Pakistan will be tough at home if they can get all their players together....otherwise I think we will prosper on their tracks. Sri Lanka will be the toughest because they are playing good cricket...India however I'd back us to sweep them home or away. In warne we lose someone who didn't succeed in india, in McGrath we have Clark. Since India are nowhere near as good as they were 5 years ago when we were 99% on our way to pumping them, nor a couple of years ago when we did pump them, I can't see anything but a whitewash.
But so what if we drop the odd series in the subcontinent? There isn't another team in world cricket (besides perhaps Sri Lanka who will also lose key players in Vaas and Jayasuria in the coming years) who can play anywhere but in their own backyard - you need to win away series to climb up the ICC ladder. We should still win enough home and away series to sit comfortably on top.