When the players of a team are aware about the fact that there partners would be there during the time they are playing, the emotional security provided by this realization eggs them on to enhance their performance. This could be the realization that has dawned on the authorities at the helm of affairs in cricket Australia and they have taken a decision to allow the spouses to the team camp before the Aussies embark on a long tour.

The decision may have been also precipitated by the break-up of marriage of Brett Lee, the off-field behavioral aberration of Andrew Symonds as also the fighting incident that happened in South Africa when the Aussie tour was traveling there involving few senior Aussie players. The immediate trigger seems to be a pretty long tour that the Aussies are embarking upon. They have T 20 World Cup lined up in England, followed by Ashes series and seven one-day international matches. In effect the Aussie players would be away from the country from June up to September, and therefore the emotional anchoring is indeed required for the team.

The rethink and the change in the tactics may also have been prompted by the fact that it is for the first time that the Aussies are embarking on such a long itinerary away from the Kangaroo land. As the team has a admixture of young blood, who have new girl friends, or may have been recently married, depriving them the opportunity to be away from the spouses may not have been a good idea, and hence a rethink.

Australia had already experimented with this initiative when it allowed the captain Ricky Ponting, Mitchell Johnson and Mike Hussey to take rest and be with their family instead of playing with Pakistan in a One-Day Series tournament being played in Dubai.

As international commitments increase, more such humane approaches would become the need of the hour for the authorities running cricket show, otherwise it would lead to breakdowns and behavioral aberrations.

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