Why did Australia’s best batsmen suffer a calamitous failure of concentration and technique?
The Australians’ score in the recent test against South Africa. Photo Lee Warren/Getty Images
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Those who see athletes as machines and fail to understand why they can’t do today what they did without breaking sweat last week must be flummoxed by batting collapses.
How can it happen? How can a batting line-up with dozens of test centuries to its credit get skittled for the kiddie cricket score of 47, as Australia did in Cape Town recently?
Why did Australia’s...
This article appears in the New Zealand Listener issue November 26, 2011.
The full text of the online article will be available on December 12, 2011.
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