The Great Cricket Recession Down Under

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The Great Cricket Recession Down Under

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Wednesday, 18 February 2009

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There is a recession on Australia and more particularly in Australian cricket. The exit of many stalwarts from the game in the past couple of years, the missing team spirit of old, the disruptive influence of Andrew Symonds and the disastrous summer of defeats have all contributed to cricket in Australia being on the slippery slope downhill.

As global recession takes a grip on the world, Australia fells the heat. Witness for instance the economic crunch felt by the wine division of their iconic beer brand Foster’s; the world’s second largest wine making unit is finding no buyers! And then there is the other kind of recession that Australia is facing, the great recession of Australian cricket, which this editorial seeks to do a special review of. There are several reasons why the cricket news from Australia is glum:

EXIT OF THE STALWARTS:

Over the past couple of years, the Australian team has been much debilitated by the exit of some awesome players: Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Adam Gilchrist , Justin Langer and now most recently Matthew Hayden . In their absence a veritable void seems to have been created that does not look likely to be filled any time soon. Players of that calibre are always difficult to find and certainly they cannot be found in the Aussie dressing room right now.

TEAM SPIRIT:

The much vaunted team spirits and the bonding that the Australian cricket team was so famous for seems to be vanishing. Can you for instance imagine a skirmish of the kind that happened between Simon Katich and vice captain Michael Clarke happening during the golden era of Steve Waugh? The team was then a more cohesive unit a well knit force used to winning. You can hardly say that about the present Aussie side. Can you also imagine Steve Waugh being ‘rested’ the way Ricky Ponting did or perhaps was made to? The answer has to be an emphatic ‘No’ to both questions.

THE SYMONDS FACTOR:

The troubles that besiege Andrew Symonds recall to mind irresistibly, the lines of the good poet Keats, ‘O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms/ Alone and palely loitering?’ It is not clear why Symonds gets himself into trouble, but he does so with repeated and appalling regularity. So disruptive is his behaviour it cannot fail to affect Aussie dressing room negatively.

DISASTROUS SUMMER:

Recent cricket coverage has shown how the defeats faced by the Aussie team in India and then more humiliatingly the defeats meted out by the Proteas in their home territory has toppled them from their seemingly inviolable top spot in cricket. In ODI cricket they have been dethroned, and test cricket does not seem far behind. They have won only three of their last 9 tests and have suffered defeat in more than half their last 10 ODIs. Cricket Australia may be forced to infer that this is ‘recession’ and that the team in on the slippery slope downhill.

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Satymeva jayte - Australians bound to be doomed

|2009-02-18 16:16:45

This was coming for Australians everybody talked about how old their players
have c become and the reserves were no match.

So this slump had to come.
Moreover Australians have lost their attitude and hunger of winning which has
been replaced by just plain chauvinism.

So Finally the rule of Australians is
going to end