Why Australia lost the Ashes
I can think of a whole bunch of reasons. Our inability to deal with reverse swing. The ineffectiveness of our bowlers (apart from Warnie and McGrath when fit). The attitude we took to England that we just had to turn up to win the Ashes. John Buchanan spending the entire series playing Tetris on his laptop.
Now Ricky Ponting is saying it was because Australia were *too* intense, too introspective, too serious, wanted it too much. I think there are a lot of factors that contributed more than that but he's got a point, I've thought for a long time Australian cricketers take themselves way too seriously. Too much navel gazing going on, it seems. There's Shane Warne's dummy spit at the press conference where the reporter cast aspersions at his weight. There's Justin Langer's laywer demanding a 'head on a plate' when a parttime website scorer described him as a 'brown nose gnome' (sounds crazy, I know, but read this hilarious article for a good laugh). There was Scott Muller threatening to sue Brett Lee's band Six and Out over the song 'Can't throw can't field'. Whatever happened to that laid back, self-deprecating Aussie sense of humour?
| Posted by JC on Wed 28 Sep |  10 comments |
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