Starc Truth!

By Geoff Lemon

Full flight: Mitchell Starc is still among the very best in the business
PICTURE: Alamy

When it comes to examining cultural gulfs between British and Australian attitudes, much airtime goes to singing in stadiums. One group does it, one does not; perhaps it tells us a little about the Australian male reticence to try things for fear of mockery, perhaps a little about the bravado of British laddery. While all for cultural expression, it must be said there is an unwarranted level of self-congratulation for the feat of squashing a rhyming couplet about a third-tier fo...

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