Obvouisly if you can bat AND bowl a bit you can get fast tracked into side lke Watson (the dud) and now hopes. Have to disagree about Harvey though, reckon he was nearly the first "allrounder" to be fast tracked. he wasnt even in Vic first class team when he was called up for ODI. Yet proven performers like Andy Bichel get chop . Australian cricket is in crisis, so caught up in sucess that they dont seem to want to pick best players, but want to pluck someone from nowhere to star.

Some would call it flirting with form, as we have seen with rotational policy. micheal bevan has scored a million runs this year but thats not enough........and if nathan hauritz gets another start..... dont get me started!!!