If rotation is such a grand idea, maybe Australia’s cricket bureaucrats should try it themselves.
Taking a rest might refresh and revitalise them, bringing them back to their offices sufficiently reinvigorated to avoid coming up with policies like rotation.
It is well and good to try to manage players through injuries by resting them through an age when far too much cricket is played.
But rotation-madness has struck to such an extent that Australia has been resting some players who are in fine form, and others in case they get injured.
How proactive can you get? Prospective parents of such a mind might very well resist the idea of having kids in case one day they might die.
Perhaps Michael Clarke was getting carried away with the rotation policy when he rotated his wicketkeeper earlier this summer and had Matthew Wade bowl an over.
Players don’t like being rotated, rested or managed, however it is described. They never have and never will.
They live to play, not to rotate.
The current crop might be reluctant to say so, for reasons of self-preservation, but there’s no holding back the old-timers.
They are still puzzled, to say the least, by the revolving-door selection strategy.
Former fast bowling great Glenn McGrath, newly inducted into the ICC hall of fame, said: “Never in a million years did I want to be rested.
“The more I bowled, the better I felt,” he said as the Sydney Test against Sri Lanka began on Thursday.
“Maybe it’s the way of the future, as cricket is no longer a game for a team of 11, but for a squad of 20.
“I don’t know what the answer is but, if I was asked to rest, I would not be happy.
“Can you imagine asking Dennis Lillee to take a rest?”
Former Test left-armer Michael Whitney agreed.
He said modern players played a lot more cricket than he did, but he was starting to question whether the bodies of the current crop were hardened up enough for the rigours of first-class cricket.
“I used to run on the roads around (the Sydney suburb of) Matraville in the middle of the day because that’s what I would face bowling on pitches like concrete.
“My knees are screaming now but, at the time, I thought it was the best preparation for me.
“Once a kick-boxer goes through the pain of putting a half-inch callus on his leg, he can kick down a No Standing pole.”
Keeping things simple usually makes the world go round most admirably.
Administrators should keep it simple – pick the best fit team available, and leave rotation to the planets.