Symonds develops into main man
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
AFP
Andrew Symonds enters a Test series as a match-winner for the first time, according to Alex Brown in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Like his breakthrough one-day century against Pakistan at the 2003 World Cup, many within Australia's cricket community believe Symonds' innings of 156 against England at the MCG last December has marked a turning point in his Test career. And expectations are high ahead of the first Test against Sri Lanka.
In the Australian Malcolm Conn reports on Stuart MacGill’s place in the Test team and says he is not on the outer.
The facts are that the Australians grew more tired of Warne and his constant, self-consumed dramas than they ever have of MacGill's occasional lapses of sanity.
Cricket is at a critical point in its evolution, writes Mike Coward in the same paper.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo