Stare them down

There's going to be a lot of speculation about what to do to fix the problems in The Australian Cricket Team. Of all the ones I've heard since the end of the Fourth Test I have to say that Dennis Lillee's suggestion is likely to produce the best results.

I like Ponting, he's a great batsman and a capable captain, but he's lost his nerve. He's simply too conservative. Not mongrel enough. He blinked during the staring match. As Lillee says, Warne was pseudo-Captain during the Fifth Test. He certainly did most of the press that I saw.

Even if we'd won the Fifth Test I think Warne should have replaced Ponting as Australian Captain. It would have been harder but with the loss there is an ideal opportunity.