TRISTAN LAVALETTE

@trislavaletteIwrote in these pages last month that Australia – both the national team and the country itself – was in complete disarray as the Ashes loomed in the distance.Right now, the heat on besieged coach Justin Langer has simmered down, helped by September being a month totally devoted to the pointy ends of the AFL and NRL seasons. Cricket is almost forgotten much to Langer’s relief.But Australia as a country remains broken with Melbourne spiralling into near anarchy amid a long lockdown while the scene isn’t much rosier in Sydn...