The Australian cricket team is in a shambles. There has been few days in living memory as dark as those which the team has been through these last few weeks. If defeat at the WACA was not enough, the Hobart result was a humiliation. The sudden changes the Australian cricket selectors have begun to make at knee-jerk speed show the board has become shakey.

We Australians know what must be done.

Steve Smith's nervous captaincy of the Australian side cannot be allowed to hold the team back any longer. We need no more picking and dumping, debuting and forcibly retiring. We need stability. We need Shane Watson.



Shane Watson.



The man who gave it everything. The man whose steely determination could lead a team through the fires of Hades. A cricketer of epic proportions, one who wields his bat as if it were a sword within an ancient Colosseum. His steely resolve alone can turn any bowler into a mouse, any new ball soft, and any well-placed yorker into a six. Retirement can only hold Shane for so long; if the people call for a heroic return, we must believe he will answer that call.



So, people of Australia, lend your support for this enormously important cause. Because in the end, should we fall lower than third in the ICC Test Rankings, could we even call ourselves a nation anymore?



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