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Scott Bailey

HISTORICAL FACTS: Aussie cricket could be burned by missing generation - The Untold Story

Marnus Labuschagne is one of only five men born between 1994 and 1998 to play Tests for Australia. (Jono Searle/AAP PHOTOS)

Australian cricket is at risk of being burnt by a missing generation, with the mid-1990s on track to produce the fewest number of Test players in any era of the men's game in the 20th century.

The importance of selectors' management of generational change has long been a burning issue, including this summer when just one Australian player under the age of 30 began the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series.

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