Australia's low-key coach knows his place

In the Australian, Peter Lalor chats to the national coach Tim Nielsen about his coaching philosophy. In the wake of the England leadership crisis, Lalor also considers how fortunate Australia are to have a coach and captain who get along so well.

Watching the Kevin Pietersen and Peter Moores English captain-coach fiasco from the safety of another hemisphere should have a few in Australian cricket thinking "there but for the grace of God go we". Because, you can be sure, had Shane Warne ever been captain of Australia, the relationship with coach John Buchanan would have been entertaining at the very least.

Warne, the self-styled Rajasthan Royals' coach who doesn't believe in coaches, never hid his contempt for Buchanan's lateral, meeting-heavy, style. The leg spinner and Chappell were firmly of the view that a coach was the thing you drove the players to and from the ground in. Still, Warne-Buchanan (think Homer Simpson and Ned Flanders) was one drama that passed Australian cricket by and the tabloids are all poorer because of that.

The Herald Sun looks at Bryce McGain, who has made his long-awaited return from injury. As fate would have it, McGain’s comeback match for his club side Prahran came in the competition’s “country round”, which meant he played in the small Victorian town of Warrion, which has a pub, a petrol station, a church and 22 residents.