Australia should split the captaincy
Australia have in recent weeks played an anonymous brand of 50-over cricket
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
Australia have in recent weeks played an anonymous brand of 50-over cricket. Throughout, the players have looked hangdog and tactically, they have lacked invention, writes Peter Roebuck in the Sydney Morning Herald. He says the frustration of poor form is getting to Ponting and his deputy Michael Clarke and it's time for a captaincy review.
The time has come to awaken the one-day team and to divide the captaincy load. At least, Clarke can be put in charge of the 20-over outfit. An argument can be made for giving him responsibility for the one-day side as well. The outfit that served so well for so long is breaking up, with Brett Lee needing to rediscover his pace, Andrew Symonds given one last chance and the remaining thirtysomethings fraying at the edges. Abu Dhabi could herald the end of an era.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo