Taking the Mick

The Aussies are slowly realising their team has to play New Zealand shortly so are starting to gear up for the series with the odd article or two. First up is a piece on Chris Cairns and Jacob Oram. Even though it is short, this piece does get things rather spectacularly wrong in that the author is clearly completely unaware that Chris Cairns was dropped from the New Zealand side - a back injury has neatly been invented to explain his absence. This mistake is probably a fair enough call given the appalling run of back injuries we are having, but I am less forgiving about the photo they chose to accompany the article.

The second piece is much longer and looks at new Australian quick Mick Lewis. Lewis is allegedly squint eyed and stubble covered and clearly relishes being a bit of a nutter. In the article he proudly boasts of threatening to shoot Matthew Hayden and of puncturing a batsman's lung with a deliberate full toss.

Finally, having patronised New Zealand and then issued veiled threats, the Aussie media finishes off with a whine about how useless the entire series is anyway. Sigh. They make such good guests don't they?