Howard? You can't be serious

Cricket Australia's decision to nominate John Howard as its candidate for the top job at the ICC is pitiful and disrespectful at the same time, with question marks hovering over his qualifications and knowledge of the game. Peter Roebuck explains in the Age.

Australia's position has been well nigh indefensible. Unable to produce a serious candidate of its own, Cricket Australia ought to have gracefully withdrawn. Its reluctance to back Jack Clark, its own chairman, told the tale.