Hi all. I’ve recently emailed Ben Oliver at CA High Performance Team, sharing my ideas on how to grow long-form cricket.

I can’t post the whole email due to it being too long but this is the exec summary of the email. I’ve put a link to the full email at the bottom of the post. Let me know if the link doesn’t work.

Just posting to share ideas and have a conversation.

Executive summary
I’m writing to outline a practical, long-term strategy to protect and elevate Australia’s Test dominance.

This approach embeds:
Expansion of the Sheffield Shield to 12–14 rounds to deepen red-ball resilience and grow selection data.

Formal CA-funded county placements, paying full player contracts to systematically embed 6–8 emerging Australians under Dukes balls.

A roaming CA development coach across counties to maintain technical standards and directly manage workloads.

Carefully structured BBL participation for this specific cohort to preserve multi-day habits.


These initiatives together form a world-leading system that no other Test nation is pursuing, directly shaping players like Hunt, Kellaway, Konstas, Bartlett, Sutherland, Murphy, Kuhnemann and Webster into a sustained Ashes and WTC force.

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