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Gilchrist wants a breather
Source: Cricket365 - April 27 2006
Australia's selectors will ignore calls to rest key men during October's ICC Champions Trophy despite fears of player burn-out ahead of the Ashes.
Cricket Australia (CA) insist no competition is more worthy than another, a view not shared by a number of their star players, including vice-captain Adam Gilchrist.
"The ICC Champions Trophy is clearly important to Cricket Australia," CA operations manager Michael Brown told the Sydney Morning Herald.
"We'll be sending a very, very good team, the best team available at the time.
"For us, the ICC tournaments are of number one importance. We have never won a Champions Trophy and would like to win it. I can't stress this enough about the Champions Trophy: we'll be going with a team that we intend to win it (with).
"Part of our strategic plan is to lead the world in cricket performance, so to entertain the thought that we're going to be mass-resting players is not going to happen."
Gilchrist disagrees that the Champions Trophy and Ashes series at the end of the year are on the same level and insists players must be given a break as part of the preparation.
"We have to get our priorities right there," he said. "It is important that selectors, administrators, players and whoever else needs to be involved sits down and nuts that out.
"I am not saying no-one goes, or all key players (don't go) ... I don't know. But we have to sit down and address it, definitely."
The ICC Champions Trophy starts with a round robin between the teams that were seventh to 10th in the ICC one-day international rankings on April 1 - Sri Lanka seventh, West Indies eighth, Zimbabwe ninth and Bangladesh 10th - with the top two from that round joining the top six sides in the second round.
These teams are split into two groups, with Australia (first) India (third) and England (sixth) in Group A and South Africa (second), Pakistan (fourth) New Zealand (fifth) making up Group B.