Honestly I can't say anything about this particularly surprised me, a blatant example that change isn't always for the better. Konstas especially still shouldn't be anywhere near Test cricket at this point in his career, still only has one genuinely outstanding FC game to his credit in his short career, not sure what universe that is enough to justify the level of faith being shown in him by Bailey and his mob of merry men but I know it's certainly not one I want to live in. I mean I'm not sure what the actual solution is, all the potential options I have seen floated (Weatherald, Ward, KPat, McSweeney and a couple others) all have flaws themselves, but every single last one is a better option than trusting a 19 year old with minimal FC experience and results to fall back on
Green at 3 still isn't something I love either but I'm not quite ready to call it a failed experiment... yet. He is clearly just a bad starter, have faith that if he was to survive to 15-20 he has a good chance of being able to go on with it, so I would give him the series at least there, but if it's still the same story come the end it's fair to say it would be time to mothball that idea entirely. As for Inglis, the less said about that shot the better
So much of the reason that I was opposed to dropping Marnus wasn't so much that I thought that he was batting well, just that it seemed pretty clear to me the alternatives were significantly worse. Khawaja playing a decentish innings only reinforces this, would always have more trust in someone who does have prior success than players who don't have history in that specific role (Green, Inglis) or those who don't have much at FC level at all (Konstas)
