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the Aussies can bat virtually all the way down the order
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They can't bat at the top of it, though, which is one thing. If Brett Lee and Shane Warne are regularly among your top scorers you are in trouble.
The team is more than just the members of it (and several of those are among the best ever, when on form). It's the spirit of the Australian team that looks a lot weaker than ours - Ponting's whinges are, IMHO, the public tip of a bit of internecine warfare - apparently him and Warne aren't getting on, amongst others.
It's certainly not in the bag yet, but the Australian batting has got to be about 100% better if they're going to get scores in the 400s as England now do regularly. All those guys with batting averages in the 40s-50s who are going for 20-30 at the moment need to start scoring if they're to have a chance. And if it all goes titsup we bring Hoggard on to block everything and get the crowd to do a rain dance
