Australian selectors back on track

Peter Roebuck writes in the Sydney Morning Herald that by including Nathan Lyon and Trent Copeland in the party to play Tests in Sri Lanka, Australia's selectors have cast aside established protocols, ignored contracts and acadamies, and focused on productivity and possibility.

At first sight the selectors might appear to be thrashing around. In fact, after a wretched and chaotic season, they may be getting back on track. Neither Lyon nor Copeland emerged from the schemes popping up all over the place and designed to microwave cricketers, a risky proposition because the brains tend to get left behind.