“Lack of scandal” is to blame for England’s cricket team failing to escape criticism from one of their worst test cricket performances in years, claims coach Duncan Fletcher. The England cricket XI, trailing the series 3-0, lost the coveted Ashes to world champs, Australia, today in Perth. Ball-tampering, match-rigging and referee bribery scandals have captured the public imagination and diverted media attention from shockingly poor England performances in recent years. However, the Ashes series, the cricket world’s most-anticipated series, was painfully scandal-free for the team.
Coach Fletcher lamented: “It’s the worst (Test series) for years in terms of scandal. What I’d give for a bit of dodgy ball tampering, like we had in the summer when we lost against Pakistan. We can usually rely on (world’s best ‘spin’ bowler) Shane Warne for a bit of private life strife to divert the media’s gaze. But they gave us nothing.”
Fletcher was speaking to the PCP from the bottom of a pint glass in Whitechapel, London.
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