McGain in Kat's corner

Bryce McGain, the former Australian Test legspinner, uses a column in The Drum to explain why he thinks the removal of Simon Katich from the list of Cricket Australia contracts was "unfathomable".

The Australian cricket team is not an AFL, NRL, or rugby team. No salary cap, no draft, no other artificial competition restrictions with the objective to creating an even competition, so therefore no performance cycles, no rebuilding cycles or youth policies required - just a simple pinnacle of the best 11 players from all the 550,000 cricket participants in Australia. The Australian cricket team is simply about playing the best players who are in form and for Simon Katich not to be acknowledged in the best 25 cricketers in our nation is unfathomable.