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With Australia\u2019s Test series against the West Indies looking increasingly like a disappointing whitewash, and with an upcoming Big Bash series breathing down its neck, Tom Rehn and Mike Smithson hold grave concerns for the future of Test cricket.<\/h3>\n

\u201cI really wouldn\u2019t want a day three ticket in Melbourne and I wouldn\u2019t want a day one ticket in Sydney,\u201d Mike Smithson said on FIVEAA breakfast. \u201cWe might not even see a West Indies team front up in Sydney, that\u2019s how bad I think it\u2019s going.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not so sure their players have got a lot of ticker at the best of times, and this is the worst of times,\u201d said Smitho.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really worries my that the Sydney test is hanging by a thread.\u201d<\/p>\n

LISTEN to Mike Smithson and Tom Rehn here:<\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

West Indies\u2019 fast bowlers copped some flak after the Hobart Test for not wanting to bowl into the wind, and Tom Rehn suggested an Aussie fast bowler playing under a captain like Ian Chappell would never have played again if they had said the same thing.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou wouldn\u2019t play again,\u201d Tommy sad, \u201cif he was the captain, you would not get another gig for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

SEE ALSO: FORMER CROW CHAMP WEIGHS IN ON DUSTIN MARTIN<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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