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Chris Rogers retirement

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Toppong our scorecard but smart to see the signs.

He made an interesting comment…..apart from the knocks on the head facing up to Johnson and Starc in the nets is another thing.

You,tend to think about opposition teams copping it and yes the venom no doubt goes up a notch. But imagine the teams of the seventies – Snow, Lillee / Thommo and The Windies quarters pelting thenm at you every nets session.

article on Mitch J , his bowling, the crowd….

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From today’s Australian Amid all the despondency and ­cacophony of jeers as Australia sunk toward an inevitable 2-1 defeat on the last day at Edgbaston, Mitchell Johnson threw the switch to vaudeville.

It was a mark of how much he had changed that Johnson would try to lighten the moment — and perhaps sneak a wicket — in such a bleak situation. His former captain Ricky Ponting wrote in his autobiography that the left-armer was one of the most gifted athletes he had ever met but also the least assured. Hostile, unplayable and unspeakably quick with the ball, he was equally quick to doubt himself.

Mitch Mark II is a remarkably different man. He is easy in his own skin. Things aren’t altogether flash for the Australians right now. Brad Haddin and Shane Watson have been discarded after one Test each. In Haddin’s case the bad news came on return from what was essentially compassionate leave. That’s 125 Tests’ worth of experience now running the drinks and trying hard not to think about what form life takes after the series. After cricket.

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