Earlier this week one of the finest Australian cricketers of the past decade quietly closed the door on his international career. We look back over the career of a player who was considered a strong candidate for the Test captaincy until he started picking fights he could never hope to win.
Whilst England has served up a bevy of cricketers over the years who have failed miserably at International level, Australia excels at producing players who fail for very different reasons altogether.
Either Tino Best really did almost score a century or we have some seriously weird dreams after a night on the gin.
We’re going to do it. We’re going to take the plunge. Mike Atherton is wrong. There, we said it. We feel bad already.
The current Australian batting line-up may not appear to be world beaters, but they are compared to the numpties waiting in the wings. How have things gone so very wrong with the next generation of Australian batsmen?