AUSTRALIAN cricket has made for an interesting spectacle lately. A Cheap Mens Air Max long period of unhappiness culminated last week in the sacking of their coach, South African Mickey Arthur, weeks before the next Ashes series. Rarely has Australia cricket been forced to make such drastic decisions on the hoof. For decades it has been a model of unity, its selectors, players and administrators working in unison, as it churned out record after record and result after result. What has changed?
Well, the results changed. An era ended — one nike air max 1 dominated by some of cricket’s all-time greats. And as Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden all hung up their boots, so Australian cricket slowly relinquished its vice-like grip on the top position in world cricket.
The remarkable thing about the past two decades is not the fact that Australia produced a single generation of geniuses, but that it produced two — back to back. The Waugh brothers, Michael Slater, Mark Taylor, David Boon, Ian Healy ... these people, nike air max 1 cheap although perhaps just a fraction below the statistical greatness of the players who defined the Ponting era, laid the basis for what followed. They elevated Australia to the top.
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