with australia 0–1 down, the selectors took drastic action and dropped booth, cowper, philpott, mckenzie and david sincock. the revamped team won the next test by an innings, and booth never played for australia again. if he had played another test, booth would have been eligible for the new south wales cricket association's retirement bonus of aud50 a test. booth's last five test innings had netted only 84 runs. after the match, he received a letter from don bradman, then a member of the selection panel and the australian board of control: