B-Mac wants to know what we all want to know: why have the selectors seemingly escaped any heat for their recent poor form?
Selectors need to be more accountable
THE Australian cricket team has been going through a bad patch. Our once-invincible Test XI is losing more series than it wins, Australia has been naive in its approach to Twenty20 cricket, and the 50-over team has been inconsistent despite the highly commendable retention of the Champions Trophy.
So it was more than a little surprising when Cricket Australia announced after its board meeting in Melbourne last week that chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch had a two-year extension to his tenure. Suggestions that the role would become full-time seem to have been considered and rejected. The cricketing public has been baying for blood, and this latest development reeks of a softly-softly approach rather than one of urgency.
What really hacked me off is that he had the nerve to say that the Ashes loss was a 'hiccough'.
Get. Rid. Of.
Posted by: Lula | Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 08:53 PM
Lula
Surprised he didn't say "speed bump".
Surprised someone with such a poor sense of diplomacy could become a chairman.
Posted by: Tony | Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 09:43 PM