Alex Brown Bridgetown, Barbados HOME audiences should familiarise themselves with the sight of Shaun Marsh, Luke Ronchi, David Hussey, Cameron White and James Hopes in the Australian colours, as they were in Saturday's tour match against the UWI Vice Chancellor's XI. With a gruelling 20 Tests, and up to 47 one-day and 16 Twenty20 internationals scheduled over a 16-month period, Ricky Ponting will presumably require all available resources to manage the workload. The schedule, which runs directly into the 2009-10 domestic summer and spans six countries, is perhaps the most gruelling undertaken by an Australian side. Certainly, Australia's player stocks will receive a stern test, with the sharp increase in workload coinciding with a period of transition within the team after recent retirements. The Australians are at present...
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