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...phony war?the tiresome tactical games played before and between matches. "Players these days talk too much," says Geoff Lawson. "There's a perception that you've got to match the Australians for talk, to try to dominate psychologically ... it's just rubbish. Just go out and play cricket, will...
...limitations as it did of his own decency. Had the roles been reversed, would any of Ponting's men have done the same? In exchanges unseen or forgotten, Australian players since 1995 may have performed comparable acts. But the fact that Flintoff's gesture received so much attention suggests cricket fans are more familiar with displays of Australian triumphalism...
...overcast November morning, Craig Gill is watching the England players practice in the Sydney Cricket Ground nets. From Leeds but a Sydney resident since 1992, Gill will spend the summer as part of the Barmy Army, the relentlessly merry 30,000-strong force of traveling England supporters. There's a lot to like about the tourists' session. Despite a long layoff due to injury, Flintoff's bowling looks as lively as ever. Perfectly balanced over his bat, his work devoid of superfluous movement, Andrew Strauss looks impregnable against all comers. A sense of harmony prevails. But Gill sounds so pessimistic...
...idea that defeat in England didn't say anything too troubling about the strength of Australian cricket is being propagated by virtually everyone associated with the home squad, from Ponting down. In post-mortems, the skipper has avoided the conclusion that England might now have better players than Australia does. Instead, he's argued that Australia simply had a poor series in which their discipline lapsed and their attitude was never quite right ?fixable problems caused by a lack of concentration in practice. As for this series, "While our personnel might be similar," Ponting writes in his just-released Captain...
...results often occur in helter-skelter one-day cricket, and even in a five-day Test the inferior side sometimes wins. But excluding weather interruptions, Ashes series are played over 25 six-hour days, long enough for class to tell and the cream to rise. It was apparent from the first morning of the First Test last year that England would be formidable. Australia had ample time to adjust their attitude, to crank up the intensity of their practices, to tinker with tactics and personnel. They did all of this and still lost...