This is not sour grapes,
Australia deserved to win 5-0 as England were awful and to be honest a 5-0
spanking ought to be handed out in these one day internationals.
Mitchell Johnson is reborn, Ryan
Harris defied his knees and produced bowling spell after bowling spell to kill
England and in Chris Rogers, Australia had their own fairytale for everyone who
thinks they will never reach the top.
But the manner they have gone
about this series has left a lot to be desired, play hard yes, but downright
bullying is plain stupid.
In the first test, Clarke
threatens to break Anderson’s arm, great! Why? Australia were one wicket away
from winning the match with plenty to spare, why not remind Anderson how much
his team-mates have let him down?
Verbals continued in the second
test, ignoring the fact Johnson was ripping through England like knife through
butter.
And in the third test match,
David Warner (a particularly odious individual) runs to the umpires when
England dished out some verbals. Again fine, except Mr Warner has made it his
life’s work to be as unpleasant as possible.
Even when the Ashes were done,
Johnson sought to have a strop when Kevin Pietersen backed away while he was
running in. This is pretty much common place the world over but you wouldn’t
have thought so give Mitchell’s verbals in the aftermath.
And finally on Sunday in the
third ODI, Eoin Morgan stood his ground when caught and made the umpires check
whether the catch was clean. Again, rightly or wrongly, it’s a tactic employed
the world over but again Clarke weighed in with a verbal volley.Australia have won convincingly this winter but Clarke has gone down in my estimation and crossed the line a few times.
In 2006/7 Ponting and his team played hard but let their cricket do all the talking and steam-rolled England. They go down as one of the greats, I doubt this team will.
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