First test got under way in Brisbane this morning and Australia has got off to its usual disastrous start.
At tea, we’re 6-153 (Clarke out for 1, Broad on a 5-wicket haul) .
I think we’ve been on a sugar hit of Warne and Co for far too long. The likes of McGrath, Gilchrist, Hayden, Langer, Ponting et all alongside the genius of Warne, were always going to surround Australia with such a coat of invincibility that once removed, the all too frail internals would fray and be oh so ugly.
Of the current crop now, who’d provide some semblance of solidity? Only Clarke has any valid claims to such status and with his always crook back it was always going to be an uphill battle. The only one coming close is perhaps Watto but he too is alwways fragile and succumbs to injuries all too often.
It’s going to be an awfully long summer cricket wise. Sigh…
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