Western Australian coach Mickey Arthur says Michael Hussey shouldn't be the player under pressure to move on after Australia's underwhelming summer.Thirty-five-year-old Hussey was one of the few stars for Australia in the 3-1 Ashes defeat, but that hasn't stopped his position coming under scrutiny after a serious hamstring injury kept him out of the World Cup squad.In the Ashes, Hussey was Australia's highest run-scorer with 570 at 63.33, a figure made even more remarkable by the fact he didn't score well in the last two Tests.He is also the world's No.4 One-Day International batsman according to the latest ICC rankings released on Monday evening.Hussey will get a chance to test his hamstring when Western Australia take on Queensland in Thursday's Sheffield Shield clash, along with Shaun Marsh, another hamstring victim who's also been named in the WA side.Arthur believes the man known as Mr Cricket will soon demonstrate to all that there's plenty of life left in the old dog."After the summer he's had ... he certainly wouldn't be the one that I'd be putting under pressure at the moment," Arthur said on Tuesday morning in Perth."There's absolutely no doubt he's got a lot of cricket left in him, no doubt.""I do think that it probably is time to change for Australia, I do think that they are going to get to a situation where they probably need to blood some younger players.""If they're serious about going and winning the 2013 Ashes, there's no doubt about that.""But with all the young players that you have, you need some experience to guide them.""If you haven't got that experience through the middle, those young guys are going to get put under some serious pressure."Arthur was coaching South Africa during the 2008-09 summer, when the Proteas defeated Australia 2-1, the coach remembering former Australian opener Matthew Hayden being put under extreme pressure to retire at the time after a run of poor form.But Arthur doesn't believe Hussey should simply go quietly in order to avoid such a situation happening again."(Some) players are of the opinion that if I'm good enough I should be playing and if you don't want me drop me," Arthur said."It's certainly not a bad way to do it because if you're performing well then you're putting the selectors under some serious pressure you know.""If you retire, you almost make the selector's decision a lot easier.""(But) guys know exactly where they're at in their career, they know what their hunger for the game is, they're in the best positions to make that decision.""Huss's hunger for the game is still as it was I think when he was an 18-year-old, so I wouldn't say Huss is certainly anywhere near retirement at the moment."Arthur said he wasn't certain under what ICC provision Australia could take Hussey to the World Cup after he was replaced in the initial squad, but said if he did come in to replace the injured Doug Bollinger he would be fit to fire."Huss will be ready," Arthur declared. "He'll be ready to go if he gets an opportunity and he certainly won't let anybody down."
