Selectors must change Australia’s team or go too
Malcolm Conn, writing in the Australian , says if the Australian selectors don’t bring in new players for the Sydney Test they should be sacked as well.
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Malcolm Conn, writing in the Australian, says if the Australian selectors don’t bring in new players for the Sydney Test they should be sacked as well.
Australia now have no choice but to abandon the present so they can rebuild for the future. There will be pain as the next generation develops under Ricky Ponting but it can be no more painful than watching Australian cricket go into freefall over the past two days.
Alex Brown says in the Sydney Morning Herald the past two days have proved as dispiriting as any in recent memory for the Australian team.
In the same paper Andrew Stevenson looks at the options for Sydney.
Mike Coward, a columnist in the Australian, makes the case for the New South Wales opener Phillip Hughes.
Hughes at the age of 20 is 17 years younger than Matthew Hayden and represents the future. Hayden is representative of a golden era that has passed and, barring the apocalypse, will be formally consigned to history.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo