Cricket bosses can't handle wild ones

While it appears an embattled Andrew Symonds no longer fits in the evolving environment of the Australian cricket team, Robert Craddock says that when a player's life is spinning out of control, Australian cricket struggles to handle it. Cricket is trying to do its best but somehow the system, although it's full of psychologists, strategists, scientists, and more coaches than you would find at your local bus depot, struggles to identify the root of the problem and fix it, says Craddock. Read on in Australia's Daily Telegraph.

As provocative as the questions over Symonds' future are the simple ones about his recent past. How could psychologists, selectors and board officials misread his troubled mental state and send him to England after a season when he had fallen out of love with the game? There have been no apologies or admissions of error from anyone. And there won't be. That's just cricket.