What is the Gillard government doing about the Australian cricket team that's what I want to know?
She should be calling a royal commission into the scandalous losses against what is clearly an inferior team.
It is all the fault of the Greens of course, they block all attempts to increase investment in players and are obstructing the natural order of Australia being always the winners.
Tony Abbott will of course come to the aid of the Australian team when he wins government. He has announced that he will appoint a minister for cricket with full powers to stop the rot.
There is no chance that he will allow a coalition team to include New Zealanders.

RLP quite right!
Gillard is a spinner she should leap on a plane and get involved.
Shorten, if you can get him to stop looking in that mirror and combing his hair as the ball is bowled can bat.
Simple Simon Crean is a great wicket keeper in Gillards team,if he stops lovingly looking at her.
Abbott can carry the drinks,he throws not bowls, tantrums mainly.
This country needs to drop NDIS/Carbon reduction,a lot of things.
Bring our team up to scratch.

I told them they should have selected Jiminy, Cricket that is.

Good to laugh, we all do it and it warms us.
But too, we love to win, not us but we claim it was.
Get that nice we won! joy.
And sink the slipper in to them, not us, if we/they lost.
I love the game.
Mostly its longer form, but the 50 overs is great 20 ? never miss it.
We are batting and bowling on another country,s wickets, England does it to us we do it too.
When Shayne warn ripped other teams apart we gloated,in
*our*Victory.
As Ponting glided yet another four away to get another hundred,or most of this current team, we said *we had flogged them*
This link, yet again shows it is them when they have lost.
While engaging in the fun, the real message may be the fickle nature of Australians who just pay lip service to sports.
I am ready for England, and the lovable Balmy Army, how will we go?
Better than Gillard one hopes, then again we have clearly already said Abbott is so I rest my case.

There is a major problem in Australian cricket, esspecially with our fast bowlers.

Here we are, some 30 odd years since the greats like Lilly and Thomo, we have seen huge leaps and bounds in training technology, yet, it seems our quicks can't go a full game without breaking down.

I think it's more a case of harden the F up, if you ask me.

As for India, these guys are amazing in their home land and we must also remember they are a developing country, that all of a sudden in more recent years have opened the game up to many more of their people.

South Africa as well, where coloreds are allowed to play.

They have also imported many top line coaches, some of our own in fact.

So i think it's just a numbers game, where they now have literally millions of potential players to choose from, and we no longer have enough bums on seats so as to say.

Rechtub are you a cricket player.
Loving the sport but no longer playing it,I can only talk of my thoughts.
We can not bring back the past.
But it is dangerous to compare it to today.
Bowlers like every player, play more cricket in a year than our past greats played in 3, maybe more.
Indian wickets are as useful as the proverbial to a fast bowler.
Spin is king on a wicket built to help only that.
We have great up and comers,two quick turn around ashes series may well prove that.
We could debate rotation, it may be a good thing,but looks bad right now.
Lets not bypass our heroes, the four batsmen who fail near every time, in England they may again become our heroes.