The recent Ashes capitulations mean that none of the Australian batsmen can feel assured of selection,but who is waiting back domestic to occupy their places?For so long now Australia’s cricketers have been able to scan a map of the world and proudly thumb the distant locations they’ve conquered like swashbuckling explorers – that 75-year stranglehold at Lord’s, 1995 and the pitch-invading ecstasy at Sabina Park, or Jamaica.
In light of the expanding list of destinations and team totals now associated with dreadful batting collapses,perhaps that sporting atlas should also feature trigger warnings for Australian fans. Look, there’s Cape Town 47. Ah, or Leeds 88,you really snuck up on us there. Melbourne 98? Painful to stumble across you again. Australia posted 301-0 on day one of the Trent Bridge Test in 1989. Now it’s forever stained by the number 60. Glancing at your watch at 8:15am might distress for a while, too.
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Source: theguardian.com