The worst Aussie side for 30 years?
Former England coach Duncan Fletcher, who took England on two Ashes tours to Australia, believes the current Australian team is the worst in 30 years
Liam Brickhill
25-Feb-2013
Former England coach Duncan Fletcher, who took England on two Ashes tours to Australia, believes the current Australian team is the worst in 30 years. Even so, how England deal with their position as favourites will be crucial to their success, he writes in The Guardian.
Every signal the Australians are sending out speaks of the confusion in their camp and the breakdown in their planning for this series. It all makes you wonder exactly where Australian cricket is at the moment. You have to go back more than 30 years, to the era when Kerry Packer had tempted away the best players to World Series Cricket, to find the last time the team were in such a muddled state. And at least back then it was obvious that they still had some talented players in reserve. At the moment you would struggle to know if that was true of this team, simply because none of the young players has been capped yet.
Liam Brickhill is a freelance journalist based in Cape Town