View from Down Under
Cricket’s international schedule is making genuine groundwork a thing of the past

THE MEL FARRELL COLUMN

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln may not have actually said the words that are often attributed to him but the wisdom of sound preparation has rarely been questioned in cricket.
From groundstaff to players and all the backroom bodies, cricket in England has been gearing up for perhaps the most intense two months of Test cricket ever seen in one country – eight in eight weeks, including the Wo...