How Aussie women can get back on track after shock series loss

Well, the Cricket Australia challenges are coming in a rush, aren't they?

This afternoon sees the next with the Australian women taking on a confident India, who are now at the perfect experience level to break the Australian dominance of two decades.

The women have lost their first series at home in nine years, with some head scratchers from selectors and captain in the T20s.

I'll start with the captain for the future, Sophie Molineux, who seemed too interested for mine in the opinions of three or four senior players last week, rather than her own instincts to take the game on by herself.

The pressure she's been placed under is a little unfair. Deposing good performers either in the bowling line-up or the batting line-up, namely Alana King, and then pushing good batters too low with the other options they need in the team.

I suspect that this batting order has been designed by non-playing bystanders, rather than the skipper herself.

She might have to get control of that if she's not happy too, but I expect it to change for the One Day games.

Annabel Sutherland, for example, is a future great of Australia. She's batting at 7… I think Annabel very quickly has to get up.

The reasoning behind Annabelle and Grace Harris batting so low is to lengthen the batting… well, I’m thinking it’s wasting the batting.

Georgia Wareham, she's a spinning all-rounder who's had a fantastic Big Bash and she's gone up to number six and done very well, so it's nothing about Georgia, but I still don't think she should be higher than Sutherland just now.

So much is to be done now under the watch of my niece, Alyssa, the ODI captain.

The bowling accuracy hasn't been good enough.

Then there’s the hunger to convert starts into triple figures, which hasn't been as good as once was the case.

The spinners, to me, don't seem desperate enough to win every ball. You’ve got to try to beat the batter every ball.

Today’s ODI is a great place to start, I reckon. Seven hours of execution is what you need as a unit.

That might get this big job done in beating India.

The real quality between mates, to me, hasn't been obvious of late.

There's a lot of talk going on, but it’s going to need more than that.