While it’s unusual to have so much uncertainty regarding Australia’s Test top order heading into a big Ashes series, right now there is also a lot to be positive about.

We’ve got three in-form, experienced players who continue to stack up runs in domestic cricket and keep doing what the selectors want in Sam Whiteman, Kurtis Patterson and Jake Weatherald.

All three know their games, all three have first-class records that stand up, and all three could strengthen the Test batting order immediately.

Add in discarded Test opener Nathan McSweeney, who I still believe will be our next long-term No.3, and suddenly the future looks a lot brighter than some might think.

While the three names I first mentioned are batsmen in their early 30s, for the short term, while there is a rebuild, they ar

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