How a national side rebuilds after a cycle ends

Three retirements in a year force decisions that a team has usually been avoiding for two.

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How a national side rebuilds after a cycle ends

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Rebuilds are announced as plans. They are almost always reactions.

The gap that opens in the middle order

Senior batters do not just score runs. They absorb pressure, settle a chase and let the players around them play their natural game. Replacing the runs is straightforward. Replacing that is not.

Two years of patience

A side that backs the same eleven through a bad series will look worse before it looks better. The alternative is a rotation policy that leaves nobody sure of their place.

Neither approach is comfortable, and both get criticised in exactly the same words.

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