The Tim Paine era begins with potentially four new faces, but ‘continuity with change’ for Cricket Australia
After a long winter, Australian Test cricket is ready to wake from hibernation. Upcoming in a new spring season is a tough assignment: Pakistan in their adopted fortress of the United Arab Emirates. Just as tough will be the first meaningful on-field steps towards recovery from the autumn humiliation in South Africa.
When Australia’s ball-tampering plot was exposed in Cape Town, the sport’s administrators talked big about the need for change. They instituted two reviews of cricket culture, one into the national men’s team and another into Cricket Australia as an organisation, which would tend to suggest an admission there were cultural problems. But while the review findings are still not public, CA in the meantime appointed a permanent men’s coach and a new CEO, both of them anointed successors who had long been part of the regime under review.
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