As if the Australian selectors didn’t have enough concerns with the Test team – suspensions, failures and a lost series — they now have a huge ODI headache leading into the World Cup: the captain.
Thursday night’s lights-out drama has highlighted the Gabba’s mounting image problem. But it does have a couple of big pluses, writes Robert Craddock.
ROBERT CRADDOCK: At first glance, the selection of 20-year-old Will Pucovski for next week’s Gabba Test may seem an audacious gamble.
The time was right for drastic action, and in picking youngster Will Pucovski, Australian Test selectors have returned to a traditional approach, writes Ian Chappell.
THE biggest sporting event Australia has hosted since the Sydney Olympics starts next week under pressure to live up to its billing.
THE Allan Border Medal is not doing justice to the great Australian cricketer it is named after, writes The Courier-Mail journalist Ben Dorries.
WHEN cricket’s World Cup starts in Australia, every big name cricketer in the world will be there, except for one: Mohammad Amir.
DAVID Warner is a recidivist when it comes to agitation but administrators deserve as much blame as the cricketers for the escalation in confrontations.
AB de Villiers’ remarkable innings only confirmed that he’s the best cricketer in the world in all three forms of the game, writes Michael Hussey.
CRICKET continues to make a laughing stock of itself when it comes to cracking down on player behaviour, says ROBERT CRADDOCK.
AUSTRALIAN selectors should have picked a leg-spinner in the 15-man World Cup squad and named Steve Smith as vice-captain, writes Ian Chappell.
THE Big Bash League is a fabulous product, but it would be great to see a sprinkling of Indian players in the competition, writes Allan Border.
A year ago egocentric Kevin Pietersen was the cricketer Australians loved to hate, but now “The Walking Ego” is cricket’s “Captain Charisma”.
CRICKET Australia’s decision to program a neutral final at Manuka Oval appears vacuous given the electric experience in Adelaide this summer.
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