AFL-obsessed Victorians
In the New Zealand Herald , David Leggat writes that New Zealand's ongoing tour of Australia, a series which the visitors lead 2-0, barely gets a mention in the Melbourne papers.
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
In the New Zealand Herald, David Leggat writes that New Zealand's ongoing tour of Australia, a series which the visitors lead 2-0, barely gets a mention in the Melbourne papers.
So you open the sports section of one of Melbourne's two morning newspapers to check out the state of play ahead of the game. Big splash on the back page? Nope. Turn inside for a double-page spread on the whys and wherefores that lie ahead on the day? Forget it. The first eight pages are devoted to the coming AFL season. The next one is all about the A-League finals series. Then comes the cricket, a couple of pages primarily on the Australian squad named on Thursday to tour South Africa. The ODI yesterday gets one sentence.
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo