The complex Australia-India relationship

In his column in The Age Greg Baum looks at the relationship between Australia and India and wonders if “the gap can ever be bridged”.

Former Australian prime minister and cricket enthusiast Robert Menzies wrote once that Englishmen and Australians were of such like minds that "thankfully, we don't have to be too tactful". Between Indians and Australians, it is not so simple.

Jon Pierik writes in The Australian about Daryll Cullinan’s doubts over Michael Clarke and Shaun Tait.

"I would be very, very worried if [Clarke] was batting in my top four," Cullinan said. "Temperament wise, it's going to be a make-or-break World Cup for him, because there is going to come a moment where the pressure and the focus is going to be on him."