OK, enough of the childish brow-beating. I wrote a few more serious points for Cricket World earlier today. Please click here to read the piece, but if you can’t be bothered, a few highlights are below.
“It is almost as if the clock has been turned back to the 1990s and early part of 21st century. The players have changed, but the method is much the same: win the toss, rack up huge scores, put batsmen under pressure, don’t make mistakes, bat positively, win Test match by huge margin. Celebrate and repeat…
“The hard work is beginning to pay off. Australian cricket, in a year in which their rugby league counterparts have won the World Cup, and their rugby union team has also been given a fresh lease of life by Ewen McKenzie and Quade Cooper, can once again hold its head up high.
“Now will come the inevitable calls for wholesale changes from England supporters. Pietersen out. Prior out. Swann out. Flower out. You’ve surely seen the tweets already…”
See the full article (and read a whole lot more) here: http://www.cricketworld.com/ashes-comment-australia-have-proved-us-wrong/36085.htm