With a nine-day break before the third Test begins coach Andrew McDonald hopes his under-fire team will be able to find clarity
he morning after the night before is when clarity kicks in. You shuffle into the main part of the house and suddenly you can see the snowdrifts of bottles that you didn’t notice accumulating. You spot the burn marks on the carpet, the crack in the bottom window, the slice of chocolate cake smeared along the blade of the ceiling fan. You know that this version of you is the person who has to deal with it. With clarity, nothing is clearer than regret.
and supporters at home in Australia, attention has been on the absence of warm-up matches. It is worth pointing out that tour games became largely pointless once host boards started offering sub-standard opposition on surfaces that had no resemblance to Test grounds. The week-long camp in Bangalore gave players opportunities to groove their games, precious little of which has been shown upon reaching the middle.
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