Press tell England to go home

England’s latest dismal display at Adelaide drew no sympathy from the Australian press. Robert Craddock writes in the Herald Sun that England might as well not bother turning up for their remaining CB Series games.

Send the England cricket team home and refund all tickets. Give them a fresh batch of OBEs for being Obscenely Bad Englishmen. Enough is enough. Andrew Flintoff is captaining one of the greatest British comedy outfits to visit our shores but people have stopped laughing.

Andrew Ramsey, in The Australian, agrees.

In the era of reality television, the time has surely come for England's cricketers to be voted off this island. Yesterday's submission was so meek and disrespectful that even the most jingoistic Australians were left insulted at England's unwillingness to have a go on the national day.

And Richard Earle, in Adelaide’s Advertiser, discusses local boy Shaun Tait’s best chance to push for a place at the World Cup.

Former Australia No. 4 Mark Waugh believes Tait should go to West Indies where the wickets will be bouncy and almost certain to offer considerable reverse swing. Sadly, you can bet Tait will get better competition from Victoria's batsmen at the Melbourne Cricket Ground this weekend than any duel against England.