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The Australian cricket team has been given a taste of its own medicine, with their meek capitulation and humiliating loss to England in the Ashes series.
The post mortem and back stabbing has started already, with Michael Clarke’s retirement predictable and justified, but is it fair to single out Clarke and make him the scapegoat?
Sure, Clarke was sadly out of form during the series with his dismissal at Nottingham in the first innings one of a player distracted and using little or no footwork, which was uncharacteristic of Clarke.
That being said, it was a replica of how other batsmen got out as well, with their technique more befitting park cricket than a Test match.
The advent of T20 cricket certainly hasn’t helped develop top Test batsmen, it’s only encouraged them to play without restraint and patience.
To say that the Australian team was underprepared for the English wickets and conditions is an understatement, but where was the fight, determination and resolve when their backs were against the wall?
It has been suggested by Ian Healey that the WAGs may have been an unwanted distraction for the players on tour. I couldn’t agree more, shouldn’t the one and only priority for the players while on an Ashes tour be to play cricket?
The soul searching, reviews and investigations will start shortly after the final Ashes Test, or have they started already? If Cricket Australia is fair dinkum they should tap a number of players on the shoulder and start to rebuild for the next Ashes series sooner rather than later.
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