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The resurgence in Australian cricket over the last six months has been superb. The side have been led by a coach who has done two obvious things.
The first one was to install some old fashioned values into a sport with increasing technology and the rubbish that comes with it, and the second one was to get the team playing like a team again.
Mickey Arthur on his way out the door said he was disappointed to be going cause he thought the team wasn’t far off from going where he wanted them to go.
But the reality was they were not in the same ball park as to where they needed to go, and no where near where they are now.
Pat Howard and his notoriously farcical rotation policy, along with Arthur and the embarrassing and farcical homework scandal, meant Australian cricket was a laughing stock.
It was around twelve months ago that Australia embarked on the worst tour ever by the worst Australian team ever.
Lehmann canned all of that crap, and the results have followed.
The other thing to note about this team is how they have ended good to great players careers.
Kevin Pietersen was thrown into the ‘never to be picked again’ category after his tour to Australia that featured poor shots and a poor attitude.
It got too hard for Graeme Swann who wasn’t used to getting hammered all around the park.
He called it quits mid-tour. Matt Prior went into limbo with his poor batting and glovework. Also captain Alastair Cook, whose record is superb, didn’t score big in 10 Tests against Australia.
Now Graeme Smith, a prolific run scorer but in five innings this series has barely hit one off the square, has called it a day following the current Test against Australia.
Pietersen, Swann, Prior and Smith. These aren’t your ‘play for a couple of Tests Glenn Maxwell’ types of cricketers.
These are either excellent or great players, and three of them have been sent into retirement at the hands of a resurgent Australian team.
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