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Time for young talent

Peter Roebuck
After a summer spent agonising over the fate of a veteran trying to revive his game, Australian cricket has restored its willingness to take a punt on younger blokes. Nor can the first flush be the last. Indeed the strategy ought to be extended to the Test team with Phillip Hughes taken to South Africa.
Nor is the wide brown land alone in its audacity. Jean-Paul Duminy has made his mark and an Indian lad called Cheteshwar Pujara has been collecting hundreds as a lesser man does pies. In Sri Lanka Ajantha Mendis is bemusing all with his carrom balls. It’s exactly the injection the game needed.
David Warner was fun. His ability to whip the ball over mid-wicket was impressive but it was not all thrash and bash. His shot selection was smart and his execution was excellent. He read the bowler's mind and hit the ball without the slightest hesitation. Such are the joys of freedom. One professional batsman of yesteryear dreaded going home because his better half was inclined to ask, "Nipped back
did it?"!
Here was an intrepid and proud young man who'd dared to be himself in front of tens of thousands ofpeople and on the greatest day of his sporting life. Next morning his manager and club secretary sent a message saying "our 520 juniors will be jumping out of their skin to get to practice next week!" It's the same elsewhere.
Hughes must be next. He should have played in the SCG Test. He has batted superbly all summer and outdid himself in the shield match in Hobart. /Xustralia ought not to be scared to play him. By all accounts he is a capable young man with a well constructed game. He concentrates on filling his boots as opposed to his pockets and to that end intends to play county cricket for Durham. He is hoping for a call to higher things. Australia may leap a generation.
Duminy was not far behind Warner at the MCG, and he had to rebuild the innings and deal with Shaun Tait's thunderbolts and Ben Hilfenhaus' swingers (the Tasmanian must go to South Africa and England). His ability to switch styles was typical of his age group and ought to persuade selectors that fears of ruining techniques are unfounded. The best way to handle youngsters is to pick them. South Africa might as
well save Jaques Kallis and Mark Boucher for the five-dayers.
Pujara has been scoring a stack of runs in the Ranji TYophy. The 22-year-old from Rajkot burst into his provincial team this year and scored a triple hundred and two centuries. According to Cricinfo his dad taught him the game by rolling the ball along the ground. And he has been raised to think aggressively, as a contemporary cricketer and Indian. His coach once told him, "When you score a hundred ask yourself if you were good enough to score 150 in the same number of balls." Pujara is jumping the queue to replace Rahul Dravid.
Young bowlers are also emerging. Australians are familiar with Ishant Sharma, who has survived the immediate challenges of fame and fortune. Now comes Mendis, a Sri Lankan tweaker as hard to read as a Bulgarian novel. A year or so ago Mendis was playing second division cricket for the police. Now his flickers are bamboozling batsmen, including the senior Indians.
Watching these blokes develop is going to be lot of fun. Cricket needed them. They will have their ups and downs but their emergence is exciting. (Peter Roebuck wrote this on the Melbourne Age website)