Selectors right to pick players in form

By Geoff Lawson
Updated January 13 2018 - 7:03pm, first published 4:42pm

Australia has tightened their foothold rather than taken a step up the ladder in the world Test rankings. Beating England at home is a significant achievement in terms of historical relevance and empirical bragging rights but not so much when the stage is global. The Test series contested 3rd versus 5th, England now being the latter. The ODI series will be 3rd, Australia, vs 4th, England, in the ICC rankings, which have the two equal in ranking points, ergo we should be expecting a close and hopefully exhilarating five games - South Africa and India are only a few ranking points above these two.

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