Australian Cricket On The Wane?

We wish that was true. We really do. But that is not the case. Though Simon Barnes is eloquent (too eloquent sometimes), we don't buy into this whole "... In every empire’s beginning you find the seeds of its decline and fall..." argument. Australian cricket is alive and well. A player like Hussey has to wait several years to get into the team. That means something, only we are not sure what...

The only person Australia will find it hard to replace is Shane Warne. Everybody else, including Glen McGrath, Justin Langer, and Damien Martyn is replaceable.

As we write this, Hayden is batting on 84 in the 3rd ODI between Australia and New Zealand. We hope that he goes on to make a century so that he can then be at the press conference. That is something we always look forward to - making sense of Haydos speak for the masses.