melbourne former test captain allan border feels cricket australia needs to divert teenage athletes from football league and the other sports to rebuild the team after their ashes debaclethere are so many disciplines we tend to spread ourselves a bit thin border told the sunheraldits up to cricket to offer something that makes junior athletes prefer it over the other sportsthere are ways to sell it some kids have the right temperament for the longer sheffield shieldstyle of cricket others for the explosiveness of twenty20 we can cater for all sorts of players but theres other sports pitching for them and kids want to be a part of everything he addedborder who is still involved in cricket through the queensland state association said he is ready to help australia reach the top once againim more than happy to help he said im not the only one cricket australia has plenty of former players who would be happy to offer somethingborder said england benefited from smart preparation against australia during the ashes serieswe came up against a prettygood english side after 20 years of them copping it from us he said id like to think people realise england deserve more of a rap than they have been gettingtheir bowling attack is the best in the world south africa has quality bowlers but englands quartet is outstanding and to think they lost stuart broad early in the seriesthey put enormous pressure on the australian batsmen it was a great display of bowling it was englands turn to shine and they took all that was before them he added