For the foreseeable future, the best man to captain the Test team is Hussain.
For the past 21 months India had been the top Test team in the world.
Mark, welcome, now what about this Test team for Trent Bridge that's just been announced?
Putting out what could be their Test team against Western Australia, England fielded first in a three-day match.
He has struggled to secure a place in the Australian Test team, making just three appearances so far.
He has to be a certainty for the Test team and have the respect of the whole squad.
Before he was dropped, Pietersen has been integral part of the England Test team since making his debut in 2005.
As players we have no idea if Wednesday's line-up is the Test team or the one that plays against Western Province.
Despite a very successful tour of India in 1985, once the rebels returned Fowler was permanently discarded from the test team.
Players are not dull, and it is brilliant at the moment because no-one is sitting back thinking 'I am in the Test team'.
O'Driscoll will be in the Test team and will be another valuable leader, taking control of the backs both in attack and defence.
Fleming, 34, who also announced his retirement from one-day cricket, led the Test team to 28 wins and 25 draws in 80 matches over 10 years.
The coaches have stated they wouldn't look at the Test team until probably next Monday, after the Western Province game, and that keeps everyone on their toes.
They only have one warm-up game, against a Namibia XV, and six or seven of their Test team will be missing because of the Super 14 final.
But the Test team is led by Jersey's 20-something tyro Matt Burrows, croquet's very own James Anderson, and current world champion Robert Fulford is in his 30s.
The players will find out if they have made the Test team on Wednesday morning and O'Gara feels he has given a good account of himself on tour.
But pace bowler Cameron Cuffy may have done enough to ensure a return to the Test team for the final match of the series, beginning on Wednesday, with a four-wicket haul.
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He has stressed that every player will have the chance of making the Test team, but the coaching staff will be split between those preparing the midweek side and those looking after the Saturday team.
Spin-bowler Vettori, 28, had already been named as skipper of the one-day and Twenty20 sides but will now take charge of the Test team when the Black Caps begin their tour of South Africa in October.
It is always interesting to see what clues the selection offers about the possible make-up of the Test team and there are a couple of combinations that look like they might be used in the Tests.
So much so that Ian Chappel is wondering how India remained the top Test team so far, saying that that its feeble bowling attack made it a "squatter rather than an owner" of the crown.
India, then the No 1 Test team, had become the least attacking and the most likely to withdraw into their shell at the first suggestion of danger - a trend that continued through England and Australia.
But the left-hander lost Test team-mate Brendan Nash soon after, while all-rounder Dave Bernard crashed three boundaries before inside edging an attempted cover drive into the gloves of Foster for his third catch of the innings.
There is no more humble person than the Australian skipper and while he has new challenges with this younger, inexperienced Test team, everything considered, he is the one man who can lead them through this new era.
The South Africans, having lost seven of their previous 10 Tests in Australia prior to this series, will now replace Australia as the world's top Test team if they win the final Test, starting on 3 January.
Hooker Smit's place in the team looks to be assured after new national coach Peter de Villiers named him as captain but that means at least one of the others will not find a place in the Test team.
With spinner Graeme Swann and pace bowler James Anderson fit to play after thumb and rib injuries respectively, England have named a 13-man squad for the game in Perth, comprising their likely Test team plus Eoin Morgan and Chris Tremlett.
But, after coming in to bat at three after Michael Swart had been removed in the first over, he still batted fluidly and confidently, getting a big hug from Test team-mate Marcus North (23 not out) when reaching three figures.
It's critical that McGeechan and his coaches get the make-up of the squad right because any player who is unhappy at being left out of the Test team could breed discontent within the party and that will destroy its soul.
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