As an English cricket supporter, it makes highly entertaining reading to dip into the Australian sports papers this morning. The levels of bitterness, disappointment and sheer confusion as to what went wrong is highly amusing and reminds me of what we could expect picking up any of the similar English offerings in the 1990’s.There are people suggesting that Australia have reached a nadir similar to the one they experienced in the mid 1980’s; there are articles castigating at least...

No is probably the short answer to that question. As a sporting nation being afraid is the one emotion that rarely, if ever, goes through the Australian psyche on the sporting field. The question should probably be; is Ricky Ponting scared of losing his third Ashes Series as captain? The answer to this; undoubtedly yes.  Over the past few days there have been a series of statements and comments emerging from the Australian camp which,are uncharacteristic of an Australian side prior to an...