Five openers but no howlers as selectors choose best of a bad lot THE first question -- the essential question -- that needs to be asked is: can we make that Test squad bound for England any better by fiddling with the work of John Inverarity and his mates? The summer gone has us fretting. If there are no obvious places that need to be overhauled or even fine-tuned, no names chucked overboard, then Inverarity, Mickey Arthur, Michael Clarke, Rod Marsh and Andy Bichel have settled on a sensible, fair and uncontroversial collection of players charged to bring the Ashes to Australia. That doesn't mean they will come back with anything more than battered limbs and tarnished reputations, rather just that we have gathered together the best of a bad lot.