Australian cricket is in tatters: Australian media
Australian media has severely criticized the Australian cricket team, commenting that Australian cricket is in tatters. The Aussies have lost the Ashes for the second consecutive time in two years, and this time they had to face the blow at their home turfs.
England won the Melbourne Test with a convincing innings margin and regained the Ashes series for nearly 3 years again. Though, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 has not lost the series yet, but as England were the previous winners of the Ashes series, even a drawn series would place
England as the winners. The Kangaroos were completely outplayed by England in the Melbourne Test, and it took England just four days to dismiss a lack lustred Australia in the Melbourne Test. Australian batting failed in the Melbourne Test, as none of the
host batsmen were able to handle the swing bowling from the England side.
Even before the Ashes series, the media was quite critical of the Australian team’s form and now when they have lost the most prestigious event in Australian cricket, the local media has released its wrath on the Australian players. After the Melbourne Test,
media was quick to make their comments on the Australian players, magnifying their failure to a great extent.
One of the Australia’s leading newspapers said that the Ashes has been taken away from the Australian team and the loss has left the whole Australian cricket in disarray. Another Australian newspaper bluntly stated that their national sport is filled with
useless administrators, wrong selectors and out of form players. During the Ashes series, Aussie selectors made number of controversial changes in the Australian squad particularly the selection of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Michael-Beer-c1949 in the 13-man squad of the Third Test raised
many eyebrows.
After the Brisbane Test, a number of players were dropped from the Australian team, leaving a room for those who were previously dropped to be called back again. This basically reflected the poor state of mind of the Aussie selectors, who desperately tried
to line up a squad that would win them the Ashes title. Journalist Andrew Webster wrote that watching Australia lose the Ashes at Melbourne was like visiting a friend who’s suffering from a terminal illness.
Another leading newspaper held Ricky Ponting responsible for the loss in the Ashes series. Ricky Ponting was in the worst form of his life in the disappointing series, displaying low self-esteem and under confidence. Media unanimously hinted that Ponting
is no longer the master that he once was, and this is the right time to hand over his Captaincy crown to some other player.
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