Boot Camp Backwater
While we are preparing for a third successive Test Victory over Pakistan with a squad who's average no of tests is just shy of 27 (excluding the inevitably non-playing Jon Lewis), the enemy has climbed aboard the Flying Doctor's plane and flown to the Outback for John Buchanan's boot camp.
That means ageing genius, Shane Warne, will have two 24hr DVT-inducing flights and three days roughing it in the next five days. Jason "I'm seventh in line to the throne" Gillespie will toil to justify his man of the series status against Bangladesh. And Ricky Ponting can come up with more stating the obvious rubbish on a par with his recent "we're going to go after Monty" diatribe (I mean how else would you combat a spinner? By blocking him into submission?).
We have two teams. One bonded in the couldron of competition and victory over the enemy; another brought together through injury and adversity. Both good enough to keep England's second spot in the ICC rankings.
Either is good enough and both play cricket. Neither needs to pretend an old oil drum is a valuble package that needs to be got from one side of a river to another without getting wet to bond. Cricket is the glue.
posted by wes @ 2:46 pm
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