Hard though it may be to imagine, it is entirely possible that Cricket Australia (as they style themselves these days) are even more cloth-headed and reprehensible than their counterparts at the ECB. At the very least they give a more than passable impression of knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
If press accounts are reliable indicators, Cricket Australia is a shameless organisation. If they weren’t such a collection of Ocker Moneygrubbers they might not have arranged the recent meaningless, pointless, set of one day matches against Sri Lanka that have hampered their players’ preparations for the Ashes.
Nor, had they a clue, would they have insisted upon naming the squad for the first test a full ten days before the match is due to start. Naturally this nonsense was the stuff of some idiotic marketing department. And here’s Mike Atherton* (£) noting that:
Like the Poms, Cricket Australia has turned to management-speak.
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