Aussies need to overhaul plan: Jenner

MELBOURNE: Former Australian leg spinner Terry Jenner feels Australian team’s dependency on captain Ricky Ponting is a worrying factor and its need to overhaul its plan for the World Cup.

“For the last four years the plan has been the same and it’s starting not to work,” said Jenner. “If Ponting doesn’t score big we are in trouble. Roy (Andrew Symonds) is the answer to our success, I can’t see us doing well enough without him, with all the pressure falling back on Ponting,” he was quoted as saying by the Herald Sun.

Jenner also said Glenn McGrath was not fit anymore to bowl in the death overs.

“I’m worried about Glenn McGrath. I feel there are people running down the pitch to him. I don’t think he’s a death bowler any more because he seems to lack that bit of pace.”

He said Adam Gilchrist showdown the batting order due to his prolonged lean patch with form.

Former leg-spinner Terry Jenner said Gilchrist could be more useful if he batted down the order. “Gilchrist definitely isn’t doing the job that he is designed to do at the top of the order. I think Gilly might as well bat at No. 7 where he can make a quick 30 or something,” Jenner said.

“Matthew Hayden is doing a good job, he is taking all the responsibility because Gilly is getting out for 15 or 20,” he was quoted as saying.

Gilchrist’s form has been on the slide since the 2005 Ashes loss and he averaged just 22 in 10 one-day internationals this summer with a top score of 61.

But former Test batsman Mark Waugh remains convinced Australia is the team to beat at the World Cup.
"To me, Australia and South Africa are the best two teams.”