AV: After your playing days you have stayed in touch with the game both as the coach of South Australia and as a national selector. How is Australia able to produce so many cricketers of the highest class. I can readily think of two cricketers, Darren Lehman and Stuart Law, who would walk into any one day side in the world. Yet, they can't find a place in the Australian side.

GC: I think our domestic structure is very good. Our club cricket and particularly domestic first class cricket is very competitive and very strong. It breeds the right sort of players. In the last fifteen years or so, the Australian Cricket Board has taken definite steps to strengthen our grass roots levels. Identification programmes, coaching programmes, league competitions and the Commonwealth Cricket Academy which provides the finishing touches to all cricketers in Australia. All of that has worked towards increasing the depth of Australian cricket.