Cricket ball to oval ball
Here's something a little different to break up all the Ashes talk
Andrew McGlashan
25-Feb-2013
Here's something a little different to break up all the Ashes talk. It's an interesting piece from The Australian which talks about cricket's role in the development of rugby league in Australia.
Australia's top cricketers were reduced to receiving allowances, while the ABC began to build up financial reserves from Test match income. The change left cricket in a similar situation to rugby union, which was experiencing a groundswell of discontent over the fact the NSW Rugby Union was raking in large profits through gate-receipts from the unpaid labour of their footballers.
Andrew McGlashan is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo