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Warney and McGrath are both poised to retire apparently.
There's really nothing more for either of them to achieve in the game. Warney will take his 700th wicket sometime before the end of the series, and both of them can retire knowing that they did Australia proud.
I think we've proved that we should be able to shrug off the loss of McGrath as we have some good fast bowling stocks coming through. We will lose a bit of an edge without Warney, mainly in our ability to dominate the fifth days of a Test match. But we won't become a crap team overnight as many people have suggested, as our competitiveness is bred out of our cricketing system, not the talents of one or two players.
What we'll miss more than the talents of these two are their brains - they've got so much experience that they know what fields to set, how batsmen play, all that stuff. It's a bit like Darren Lehmann's retirement before the Ashes in 2005 - we missed his brain more than his batting.
I think we'll all miss Warney, histrionics and all. The field was his theatre when he was bowling.
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