Sure, Shane Watson's record-breaking innings of 185 not out was awesome. No doubt about it. The 96 balls of mayhem, which included 15 sixes and 15 fours, and steered Australia to victory with 24 overs and nine wickets to spare was amazing.

But, to my way of thinking, Watson shouldn't even be touring Bangladesh.

Since the Australian cricket season started in November with a three-match one-day international series against Sri Lanka, Watson has played 26 of the next 27 matches, encompassing five Ashes Tests, 18 one-day internationals and three Twenty20 internationals. The only match he has missed was the dead-rubber seventh one-day international against England at the WACA.

It's not just Watson. The same core group of eight players have been used all throughout the England series, World Cup and now the Bangladesh series.

The Australian selectors need to have a serious look at the future. The future tours program has the team scheduled to play non-stop cricket for 10 months' straight.

In June they host Zimbabwe in two Tests and three ODIs. The team then travels to Sri Lanka for three Tests and five ODIs before jumping on the plane again for three Tests and five ODIs in South Africa. The team finally arrives home in November to host New Zealand in two Tests, India for four Tests and an eight match ODI series involving India and Sri Lanka. After all that, they once again board the flight for three Tests and five ODIs in the West Indies.

Finally, at the end of April 2012 - a full-year of cricket - they will have a break.

In total, they are scheduled to play 111 days of cricket in 10 months, not to mention the various Twenty20 commitments, including internationals, the IPL and the much-hyped Big Bash League.

And yet, the selectors do not appear to have had an inch of foresight. The team is made up of too many 30-year-olds to tackle such a gruelling schedule, and many of them, like the long list of fast bowlers, are likely to spend a fair amount of time over the next year in the doctor's room, rather than out on the field.

The team already has a heavily reliance on Watson, the in-form player in the world at the moment. And yet he is the one player in the current team who does have a long history of injury. Yes, he may have had a clean 12 months - two years even - but I have grave doubts he will be able to last the next 12 months if he has the same workload.

The current tour in Bangladesh is, with all due respect to the emerging cricket nation, meaningless. None of the Australian team realistically wants to be there after an Ashes series and a World Cup campaign.

What the selectors should have done is injected some youth into the side, started a new era under a new captain Michael Clarke, and actually inject some meaning to the series.

The best way to prepare for the intensity of the next 12 months would have been to prepare the next generation for the future by giving them a taste of international cricket against a lesser opposition. Who knows, they might just need to be called on in front of 60,000 screaming Australian and Indian fans at the MCG on Boxing Day.

Right now, post-Ashes and post-World Cup, is the time to see Callum Ferguson, Tim Paine, Shaun Marsh, Aaron Finch, Dan Christian, Mitchell Starc and James Pattinson.

Only Shaun Tait (retired) and Jason Krezja have been replaced from the side which lost to India in the quarter-final of the World Cup.

The best preparation for a new future under Michael Clarke would have been to have a complete cleanout, except for perhaps Brett Lee as he had a relatively light summer and would provide valuable tutelage to some of our inexperienced fast bowlings.

Here's the squad I think should be playing in Bangladesh:

Shaun Marsh (27)
Tim Paine (26)
Aaron Finch (24)
Michael Clarke (29)
Callum Ferguson (26)
Dan Christian (27)
Steve Smith (20)
John Hastings (25)
Brett Lee (34)
Mitchell Starc (21)
James Pattinson (21)
Steve O'Keefe (26)
Peter Siddle (26)
Peter George (24)
Chris Lynn (21)