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With Warner’s last Test just days away there’s been lots of conjecture about how Australia’s Top 6 will line up.

Two schools of thought seem to exist:
1. Replace Warner with another opener - Bancroft, Harris or Renshaw. Surely Bancroft has to be the best option here given the runs he’s made over the the last few Shield seasons. Would also be great to see Bancroft replace Warner given it was Warner’s influence that saw Bancroft get removed from the Test side 

2. Pick Australia’s best 6 batters and shuffle the batting line up. That would see most likely Cam Green come back in but where? Do they throw him in to open? Or bat Green at 4, where he averages 60 in Shield cricket, pushing Marnus and Smudge up a spot? Alternatively could Head play a similar aggressive opener role to Warner and Green then slots in at 5? 

With Warner all but gone, hopefully Candice disappears too! The Backpage will be a much more enjoyable show to watch without her. 

Harris and Bancroft are playing domestic cricket for a reason and that is quite understandable when both have serious flaws with deliveries just outside off stump and nipping away , and I'm afraid there's more than a dozen world class other country quicks desperately hoping these two get the nod
Renshaw wasn't given as many chances and his game has changed - can bat in the middle order as well
Then there's old sleepy - Green , this guy has talent to spare but there's just no ignition coil
Don't mess with Head up top - he's a gem at 5 or 6
 

Can't see how Aust will or can go with another plodder in their top 4 like a Bancroft or Renshaw......surely it's Head replacing Warner....like for like shot maker.....Head has another 4 years before he falls off the cliff like Warner has .

Head and Marsh are too similar in style batting at 5 n 6. Smith is a problem, looks more preoccupied these days with preserving his wicket then scoring runs. If Green is in Aust best six batsmen after Warner retires, then he needs to come in.....

Have Head and Marsh  book end the Labuschagne, Smith and Green snail trail by batting at 2 and 6 resoectively...once Smith goes, get Green to 4 and  get Hardie into 5.....nothing like a WA middle order of Green, Hardie and Marsh.....and once Marsh goes, get Wyllie in at 6 to start his test career before he moves  uo the order over time.

Disagree Freezin, what does Bancroft have to do to deserve a chance? What's Head done since the World Cup? Been a flop and Cameron Green has serious flaws in his technique and mental side of his batting.

I'd say this is more Cummins driven wanting to keep the boys club together. Bancroft is seen as an outsider and he was a relative baby of the Australian team when he was Warner's guinea pig to scuff up the ball with sandpaper. Not hard to work out who was the mastermind behind it.

Warner got a chance to redeem himself as did Smith for being a piss weak captain but Bancroft has been hung out to dry. Just appalling stuff. No wonder people in WA don't go to Test matches.

DD, Bancroft has a test average of 26 and a first class average of 39....can think of a few flaws in Bancroft's batting technique.....never said he didn't deserve a crack....just think until Uzzie retires, Aust will want a Warner like replacement....which Head is, someone who can keep the run rate over 4. 

I agree re Green, thus why he should bat 5 instead of opening, and then 4, when Smith pulls the pin....Green at 24, has a shed load more upside than Bancroft who is 31.....but got no probs with Bancroft getting the opening gig, just giving a reason  as to why he won't....happy to eat humble pie

Freeze I think Bancroft's test average from how many years ago is irrelevant. His first class average last year was 59.06 as the leading Shield player and is leading the way again this sraso6at an average of 55.88. He picks himself at those averages with no one else doing better.

And I don't know but I'm guessing he has been scoring at a higher clip than earlier in his career so I think you might be a tad unfair labelling him as a plodder. Just think it's setting a bad example if the selectors ignore his form over the last two seasons and don't reward it.

I'm sick of hearing Harris's name mentioned, how old is he? I guess because he is now a Victorian cricketer he gets more cred. Now that's a batsman that's nothing more than a grafter.

One thing we can all agree on is Harris should be nowhere near being selected as Warner's replacement....which sadly almost guarantees him the spot knowing the dopey duo of Bailey & McDonald!
I have been saying for years he wasnt a Test openers bootlace but they kept selecting him and he continually failed.
He moved over to VIC to play on that absolute road at the Junction Oval to make his numbers better than they are in reality.
The other thing that has Green, Bancroft & Renshaw well ahead of Harris is their respective fielding.
Warner has been the designated first slip for some time now and Renshaw & Bancroft are both very good slippers, whilst Green is brilliant in the gully and M.Marsh (who fields in the slips for WA) could move in to the cordon to accommodate Green back to the gully.
Harris is an ordinary fielder and has to be hidden when playing and we already have 2 average fields in Head & Khawaja to accommodate but at least they score runs occasionally!!!

Warner has confirmed what most of us thought - he was gone after the Ashes but various parts of CA just didn't have a shred of inner fortitude to make the call
It's almost farcial Monte Python-esque they may as well just keep playing that potato now and make it two generations skipped , hey why not open up with wife , she runs everything else it seems
CA is an open joke really 

Pretty obvious Warner has a dossier of some sort, which the CA don't want the public to see, regarding sandpapergate. No doubt when Candace writes her life story, it will all come out them....I wonder if Warner will write one?

Seems like Aust will have a repeat of the Chappell, Lillee, Marsh then Warne, McGrath & Langer retirements when the likes of Uzzie, Smith, Starc, Lyon etc follow Warner into the sunset.

Hopefully the next generation of potential 20 somethings -

Openers: Hunt, Ward, Wyllie, Dixon

3 - 6:  Green, Hardie, McSweeney, Kellaway, Davies

Fast bowlers: Richardson, Morris, Johnson, Buckingham, Perry, O'Reilly

Spin: Murphy, Rocchiccioli, Sangha

Are all quick learners and ready to hit the ground running.

The youngest player in our current test side is 29,Laba.When Greens not playing. 
Everyone else over 30 years old.Warners replacement will be a younger ,from outside the box.Not what we all think it should be.
Nsw Woke Brigade will choose the replacement. Plenty of time to plan during the raining Sydney test.