All-round view

In The Age, Brendan McArdle predicts the increasing demand for allrounders in Australia. He writes:

Things have changed dramatically since Australia won the past World Cup with a Test-class pace attack. The next tournament [World Cup] in the West Indies in 2007 could feature as few as two specialist bowlers in the starting XI, with the balance of the bowling done by all-rounders.

But what are the selectors thinking? Merv Hughes, one of the Australian selectors, speaks to Malcolm Conn about the difficulty of the task.