Teams can come to reflect the failings of their boards, just as the other way around. He will need to do plenty of that in the upcoming series. When Root carries England with his batting, it only emphasises the contrast. It all correlates with the English Test captain’s milquetoast response to Rafiq, a smoothie of motivational quotes about moving forward together, in that way that makes Root an ideal study in the Yeats formulation about the best lacking all conviction. They have hosed fortunes on a fortnight’s play in the needlessly divisive Hundred competition, rather than investing those resources and ingenuity to elevate the county T20 tournament, and the top suits this year paid themselves £2.1m in bonuses to congratulate themselves on their wise financial stewardship last year in sacking 62 staff to get through the pandemic. All the while, they were asking England players to wear nice T-shirts before each match with slogans about cricket being a game for everyone. Then you have the England and Wales Cricket Board, claiming shock and dismay at Rafiq’s testimony that they have just spent 15 months not listening to, letting Yorkshire try to run down the clock. As with Yorkshire and Rafiq, conclusions from cricket authorities investigating themselves are not worth the paper that they don’t get printed on.Īzeem Rafiq’s allegations of racism at Yorkshire have left the ECB with plenty of questions to answer. They also state that the interaction was a one-off, despite the familiarity in the correspondence strongly indicating that this is implausible.
CA this week restated its 2018 findings that the messages were mutually desired, but won’t address why the recipient now disputes this. They sat quietly and hoped it would do the same.Īll of which is before you come to the issue of consent or otherwise. Despite the ongoing threat of it becoming known, they never got out ahead of the story. Soon afterwards, in November 2018, at the same time as their hired hands were emblazoning “Elite Honesty” on large placards on the dressing room wall, all parties elected to bury that fact. But even if Paine’s is the kind of story that only concerns those within his marriage, the fact remains that Cricket Australia held an investigation into the workplace conduct of their new captain after he had led the team in a total of one Test match.
Nobody needs 1950s prurience about relationships any more. There are decent people in the place but so far they have been kept on the sidelines, ignored as they shout directions towards something better. For at least five years CA has been a rolling maul of incompetence, where a high attrition rate of failed executives and directors has been balanced by enough new substitutes joining in to keep the whole mess ploughing relentlessly on in the same direction. In reality, the text messages were coming from inside the house. It would also be overly kind in suggesting the possible visitation of trouble from outside. To describe Cricket Australia as an administration in turmoil may falsely suggest that this is an exception rather than a norm.
England’s blameless golden child, Joe Root, has always been fiercely claimed as the property of Yorkshire, and thus must remain so, as a teammate who, Azeem Rafiq said in his testimony to a parliamentary hearing, was oblivious to racist chatter. Australia’s anointed repairer of reputation, Tim Paine, resigned his commission via the national tradition of a teary public apology after his homespun erotica attained belated publication.
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The two captains, as per the pre-series marketing, have dwindled to one captain, meaning that 100% of the remaining captains and 100% of the former captains in this series exist under a cloud. Australia and England, that pair, where those leading the game and those leading the teams have been draping themselves in the inverse of glory. You may identify instead with a weariness, a wariness, a general swirling malaise. And yet, if you were paying attention to cricket over the past couple of weeks, you may identify with a lack of enthusiasm. T he Ashes are coming, the Ashes are coming.
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