With no room for the likes of Michael Carberry and David Capel, the C team must be busting with talent, right?
There are many plus points to Australia being rubbish nowadays. A slightly unexpected one is how many exciting Tests they manage to produce. In Hobart they did it again, and gave us all some early Christmas cheer in the process.
With the 2011/12 cycle of fixtures well under way, we take a look at the progress or otherwise of each team thus far.
Australia strolled to a comfortable nine-wicket win on the fourth morning. Here’s what we thought of it.
It’s raining cricket this winter, and New Zealand are the latest team into the fray as they take on their old enemy. An old enemy shorn of almost half their side, no less.
We don’t like cricket. We love it. Sorry. We’ll never resort to this again. But such has been the thrill and brilliance of Test matches recently, that it needs to be said.
Everyone knows what’s happened off the pitch in Pakistani cricket this year, but what’s happened on it is much more exciting.
In a battle of nerves, Australia held theirs to beat South Africa and level the two game (did you know it was only two games?) series in Johannesburg.
Even before the first match, we were annoyed that the ‘series’ (can only two of something form a series?) was so short; after the fun and farce of that game in Cape Town, it seems downright disheartening.
If we had a mailbox, we’re sure it would be overflowing with letters asking us to report what’s been happening in the cricket world lately. So, in response to all you correpsondents who have had their letters returned to sender (address unknown), here’s a brief summary of the various international series.