A Plan For Australia's 20/20 Future

Kudos Pakistanis on your World Cup 20/20 victory. May you reign supreme until, uh, late next year when yet another 20/20 World Cup looms.

Here's a radical plan for Australia to take the crown off the Pakistanis at that tournament. Or, y'know, get past the first round (let's not get ahead of ourselves):

Make Andrew 'Roid' Symonds the captain and team selector.

No, seriously. He's the best 20/20 player Australia has. Let's build the team around him. Discard the coaches, the team managers, the selectors, all the rest of it. Just have Symonds pick whoever the hell he pleases, have them rock up to the tournament, drink whenever they feel like it, train whenever they feel like it and go out there and play.

You know that under this radical, stripped-back plan, SMS Warne would rejoin the squad. You'd probably get the Pillar back to open as well. And most importantly, you wouldn't have Little Captain Punter and Pupshark in there, sucking the life out of the team with their 20/20 hopelessness.

What do you reckon, Cricket Australia? Nothing else you've tried has worked. Let's think outside the box and inside the bottle.

What do you think of this plan, Team Lateral Thinking Consultant Bratich?

Exactly.