"Oh you’re so special!" Curse or compliment?

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Chief Executive of Cricket Australia James Sutherland, on the future of the Australian T20 side:"While hosting Tests here, Australia could have its Twenty20 team touring somewhere else. It is difficult not to see a generation of players coming through with an eye to becoming Twenty20 specialists. As more Twenty20 cricket is played there are clearly opportunities for players to choose to be specialists. Taking it through to its natural extension, if you have a specialist team then why can’t you have a specialist Twenty20 team and a specialist Test team [playing] at the same time? In rugby union, for example, the ARU has a sevens team and a Wallabies team." ...   See the complete post here

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