So Andy Flower is off after all. I can’t say I’m surprised. You can’t oversee the most inept tour in England’s recent history without paying a price. Flower was a first class England coach, but when you’re lecturing people about the need for change, and advocating a new era, it’s kind of hard for the old headmaster to stay in situ. Perhaps Andy, analytical as he is, realised that staying on contradicted his own message. Having said that, I wouldn’t be surprised if Flower was privately pushed...
Sit and swivel: Aussies should reject Arthur’s rotation policy
Mickey Arthur plans to revive Australia’s fortunes by introducing a rotation policy. Err, good luck with that mate. The conspiracy theorists amongst us thought ‘hmmmm’ when Mickey Arthur was appointed as Australia coach. During his tenure with the Cricket Boks he liked the Australians about as much as Tony Greig likes Bill Lawry’s pigeons – therefore, it’s more than a little weird that he’s now the Baggy Greens’ head honcho. Of course, suggestions that Arthur is some kind of Trojan...
Taking the Mickey?
Well, it looks like they spurned my advances. A months or so ago I put my name forward as the man to revive Australia’s fortunes (see The Answer to Australia’s Woes in the right hand column) but my recipe for success – based on the John Buchanan method of alienating your best player – has been rejected by the ACB. Instead the Australian cricketing hierarchy has opted for a far more controversial strategy: choosing one of your biggest rival’s former coaches. The ACB’s decision to appoint Mickey...
