Saturday, 28 January 2006
The decline and fall of Glenn McGrath
Last week it was Adam Gilchrist who was being mourned, this week Peter Roebuck announces that the end of road is approaching for Glenn McGrath. McGrath himself might be giving something away, as he appears to be hunting around for a new career. Is this just another false dawn or the real beginning of the end for the oppressive Australian side? We can only hope. And when a new Aussie "star" takes the form of the distinctly average James Hopes, I think we can hope with a fair degree of optimism.
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Yeh - the Australian side is coming back to the field. It's been happening for some time but many performances were covered up by big innings from Gilchrist, or awesome bowling spells by McGrath.
Also, to be fair, the field is catching up a fair bit too. Batting line ups seem stronger, more able to cope with McGrath, Lee and maybe even Warne. You can't stay that far ahead of the field forever, without attracting a lot of attention, and game plans around how to beat you.
The positive side as an Aussie supporter though, is you used to get annoyed when you lost, now we get to be excited when we win again.
As a neutral(Kenya seldom get to play the likes of Australia), it will be a loss to cricket. I think that McGrath's real successor will be Lee. He's improved hugely recently, and I reckon picks himself ahead of McGrath on current form already. Somehow Australia recently seem to have a knack of generating great fast bowlers.
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