What happened to the batting prodigies of Australia?

[street cricketer]

A lot of other teams are now giving debuts to promising young talents in Test cricket. England gave debuts to Duckett and Hameed just this month, Pakistan to Sami Aslam and Babar Azam not too long ago, South Africa to De Kock, Sri Lanka selected Kusal Mendis for their tour of England and New Zealand have just selected young Jeet Raval in their squad to face Pakistan soon.

I suppose India and Australia stand out here. Usually it's hard to debut for India at a very young age unless you're exceptionally talented because of the huge competition for places as far as batting is concerned. Even then, India gave a debut to Rahul 2 years back at Melbourne.

So why aren't Australia selecting their promising young talents from the Shield cricket and instead handing out debuts to batsmen in their low and mid thirties like Voges and Ferguson?

I may be wrong here but the last Australian batting prodigy who debuted at a very young age was Michael Clarke in his famous debut in India, but since then we haven't seen too many young batsmen debuting for Australia. What's the exact reason behind it?

 

[Yatoo]

A lot of other teams are now giving debuts to promising young talents in Test cricket. England gave debuts to Duckett and Hameed just this month, Pakistan to Sami Aslam and Babar Azam not too long ago, South Africa to De Kock, Sri Lanka selected Kusal Mendis for their tour of England and New Zealand have just selected young Jeet Raval in their squad to face Pakistan soon.

I suppose India and Australia stand out here. Usually it's hard to debut for India at a very young age unless you're exceptionally talented because of the huge competition for places as far as batting is concerned. Even then, India gave a debut to Rahul 2 years back at Melbourne.

So why aren't Australia selecting their promising young talents from the Shield cricket and instead handing out debuts to batsmen in their low and mid thirties like Voges and Ferguson?

I may be wrong here but the last Australian batting prodigy who debuted at a very young age was Michael Clarke in his famous debut in India, but since then we haven't seen too many young batsmen debuting for Australia. What's the exact reason behind it?

Steve Smith was young when he made his debut long time after Clarke

 

[angrypathan]

Jake Doran I think was a bit of a batting prodigy, but he hasn't had a great start to his first class career

 

[Convict]

Because they're not ready yet.

Everyone goes on about how we have always picked young players but they all got dropped early on.

Steve Waugh's record was similar to Mitch Marsh's after a similar number of tests and age.

 

[Convict]

Also players since Clarke who have debuted at similar or younger ages

Phil Hughes (died at the same age Clarke was when Clarke returned from getting dropped and finally cemented a spot in the team)
Usman Khawaja
Steve Smith
Joe Burns
Mitchell Marsh
David Warner (only 11 first class matches)

 

[street cricketer]

Steve Smith was young when he made his debut long time after Clarke

Yeah but Steve Smith didn't make his debut as a batsman though..

 

[Thivagar]

Yeah but Steve Smith didn't make his debut as a batsman though..

That is what everyone assume. There was no way his talent could have gone unnoticed. CA knew what he was capable of, he just didn't get the impressive start with the bat.

 

[Rayyman]

South Africa doesn't have any either...