Is this the end for McGrath?
Alex Brown writes in the Sydney Morning Herald Glenn McGrath’s withdrawal from the South Africa tour means Australia’s selectors may soon be pondering a move that until recently has been considered cricketing high treason .
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Alex Brown writes in the Sydney Morning Herald Glenn McGrath’s withdrawal from the South Africa tour means Australia’s selectors may soon be pondering a move that until recently has been considered cricketing high treason.
Now that McGrath has ruled himself out of the Test portion of the South African tour and the series in Bangladesh, Australia's most prolific paceman has no opportunity to play Tests before the Ashes series. Though McGrath is eager to keep playing, the fact remains that by the Ashes he will be approaching the age of 37 and will have no Test-match fitness under his belt. And that will be of major concern to Trevor Hohns's panel.
Matthew Hayden usually stands at first slip to Shane Warne, but in Melbourne from Thursday he will be on opposite sides in the Queensland-Victoria Pura Cup match. He tells The Courier-Mail’s Robert Craddock he is wary of "information overload".
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo