Where do Australia go after MacGill?
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
AFP
Alex Brown writes in the Sydney Morning Herald about Stuart MacGill’s exit, which came on the same day Shane Warne won the Indian Premier League final.
Even in retirement, Warne was stealing his contemporary's headlines. Once, that might have irked MacGill. It has often been said that the New South Welshman's greatest fault was to have been born in the same generation as history's most prolific spinner, and the constant comparisons with Warne often wore thin in the early days. But, over time, MacGill came to accept that his accomplishments would always be compared to the impossible standards of his Victorian rival, that his career would be inextricably linked to Warne's, that there was no escape from the shadow.
The Herald Sun’s Jon Pierik says Cricket Australia has to do everything it can to lure Warne out of retirement while Malcolm Conn writes in the Australian Beau Casson will need to change history.
In the Age Matthew Wade looks at Warne’s impact on the IPL.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo