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Abstract
Australian domination of world cricket has diminished. The failure of Australia's cricket team to advance through the 10th International Cricket Council's Cricket World Cup was taken as a tell tale sign. This article charts that decline, and the inconsistent response of the Australian cricket establishment to that fact. It considers the influence of other sports in Australia that have been successful at affecting structural change at the expense of cricket.
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1 Ed Smith, ‘Ashes to Ashes: Australian Cricket's Fearsome Tradition of Toughness may be Coming to an End’, The Spectator 314, November 20, 2010, 22.
2 Nick Bryant, ‘Aussies will Absorb Defeat’, BBC News, January 7, 2011.
3 The Times of India, ‘Ponting Predicts India will Beat Pakistan in the Semifinals’, March 25, 2011.
4 Press Association, ‘Ricky Ponting Admonished by ICC for Damaging TV After World Cup Game’, Guardian, February 23, 2011.
5 Quoted in CricLounge, ‘I did not Break the Television Set: Ponting’, February 24, 2011.
6 Amanda Hodge, ‘Broken TV Exposes Ponting Rage’, The Australian, February 24, 2011.
7 Quoted in the Daily Telegraph, words cited by Rod Gilmour, ‘Cricket World Cup 2011: Australian Cricket in “Murkier Waters” as Indian Media Rejoices’, The Telegraph, March 25, 2011, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/cricket-world-cup/8405692/Cricket-World-Cup-2011-Australian-cricket-in-murkier-waters-as-India-media-rejoices.html.
8 Hindustan Times, ‘Tohfa kabool, Says Yuri to Punter’, March 25, 2011, http://www.hindustantimes.com/specials/cricket/world-cup-2011/Tohfa-kabool-says-Yuvi-to-Punter/iccworldcup2011-dontmiss/SP-Article10-677485.aspx.
9 Martin Smith, ‘Fox Sports Gives Australia a Player-by-Player Rating After their Cricket World Cup Exist to India’, March 25, 2011, http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/cricket-world-cup-2011/fox-sports-gives-australia-a-player-by-player-rating-after-their-cricket-world-cup-exit-to-india/story-e6frf3ju-1226028200649/
10 Martin Smith, ‘Fox Sports Gives Australia a Player-by-Player Rating After their Cricket World Cup Exist to India’, March 25, 2011, http://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/cricket-world-cup-2011/fox-sports-gives-australia-a-player-by-player-rating-after-their-cricket-world-cup-exit-to-india/story-e6frf3ju-1226028200649/
11 Simon Kerrigan, ‘The Curious Case of Hodge's Omission’, The Roar, January 13, 2001.
12 Robert Craddock, ‘Why Australian Cricket is in Crisis’, The Daily Telegraph, November 5, 2010.
13 Quoted in Jamie Pandaram, ‘Player's Beaten, Not Panel’, Sydney Morning Herald, January 8, 2011.
14 Katich, quoted in Daniel Brettig, ‘Katich Shakes Australian Cricket’, ESPN Cricinfo Magazine, June 10, 2011, http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/518574.html.
15 Gideon Haigh, ‘Cricket Australia, Look at Yourself’, ESPN Cricinfo Magazine, January 18, 2011, http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/497175.html.
16 Gideon Haigh, ‘Australian Cricket is Losing the Plot’, The Australian, January 1, 2011. For criticism about the Centre for Excellence's unclear role relative to the state cricket structure, see the Argus Report, otherwise called Australian Team Performance Review, Summary Report, August 19, 2011, at 8, http://www.cricket.com.au/pv_obj_cache/pv_obj_id_761C7FB67437AD0213630ECECA8C7FDAEE920800/filename/Argus%20Report%20-%20Australian%20Team%20Performance%20Review.ashx
17 Haigh, ‘Cricket Australia’.
18 Noted in Haigh, ‘Cricket Australia’.
19 CitationGibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
20 CitationWiseman and Bromiley, ‘Toward a Model of Risk’, 524.
21 Haigh, ‘Australian Cricket’.
22 Haigh, ‘Australian Cricket’
23 Quoted in Haigh, ‘Australian Cricket’.
24 Geoff Lemon, ‘Aussie Anger Over Failing Team is a Disgrace of its Own’, The Roar, January 10, 2011, http://www.theroar.com.au/2011/01/10/aussie-anger-a-disgrace-of-its-own/.
25 Scyld Berry, ‘The Ashes: Australia are Paying the Price for a Domestic Game Focussed on Twenty20’, The Telegraph, January 1, 2010.
26 Clayton Hinds, ‘Cricket Australia Unveils “Big Bash” Competition for 2010/2011’, Christian Today, December 10, 2010.
27 Quoted in Berry, ‘The Ashes’.
28 Jamie Pandaram, ‘Clarke Quits as Australia's Twenty20 Captain as England Completes Ashes Humiliation’, Sydney Morning Herald, January 7, 2011.
29 Clarke quoted in Pandaram, ‘Clarke Quits’.
30 Daniel Brettig, ‘Player Selector Relations can Improve – Chappell’, ESPN Cricinfo Magazine, June 17, 2010, http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/519355.html.
31 David Sygall and Jim O'Rourke, ‘Cricket Knocked for Six Ratings, Crowds and Revenue Down for the Summer Game’, Sunday Age, October 31, 2010.
32 Ryan O'Connell, ‘Is AFL to Blame for Australia's Sporting Decline’, The Roar, April 7, 2011.
33 Kevin Mitchell, ‘Cricket: The Ashes – Aussies Beware – Cricket is Taking a Kicking’, The Observer, January 2, 2011.
34 Quoted in Mitchell, ‘Cricket’.
35 Ben Broad, ‘Allan Border, Steve Waugh, Mark Taylor Headline Cricket Australia Probe’, Herald Sun, March 10, 2011.
36 ATPR, Summary Report, August Citation19, 2011.
37 ATPR, Summary Report, Citation8.
38 Roger Vaughan, ‘Cricket Changes will Take Time, Says Argus’, Sydney Morning Herald, August 19, 2011; Cricket Australia, ‘High performance Restructure for CA’, August 19, 2011.
39 The Corporate Box, ‘Why Cricket in Australia is at the Crossroads’, The Roar, August 2, 2011.
40 Malcolm Conn, ‘Change Has to Come, Starting from the Top’, The Australian, December 30, 2010.
41 Malcolm Conn, ‘Change Has to Come, Starting from the Top’, The Australian, December 30, 2010
42 AAP, ‘CA urged to appoint AFL-Style Commission’, Sydney Morning Herald, April 14, 2011.
43 AAP, ‘CA urged to appoint AFL-Style Commission’, Sydney Morning Herald, April 14, 2011
44 AAP, ‘CA urged to appoint AFL-Style Commission’, Sydney Morning Herald, April 14, 2011
45 Scott Walsh, ‘Cricket Should Follow AFL Lead’, Adelaide Advertiser, May 1, 2011.
46 Quoting Berry in Andrew Faulkner, ‘Fears Grade Cricket Forgotten in Ashes Review’, The Australian, June 30, 2011.
47 Greg Baum, ‘Falling Between the Silos’, The Age, July 10, 2011.
48 Quotd in Baum, ‘Falling Between the Silos’.
49 Quotd in Baum, ‘Falling Between the Silos’
50 Quotd in Baum, ‘Falling Between the Silos’
51 Alan Harris, ‘10 Compelling Theories of Decline’, The Barbados Advocate, May 5, 2010.
52 Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission (HREOC), What's the Score? A Survey of Cultural Diversity and Racism in Australian Sport (2006), http://www.hreoc.gov.au/racial_discrimination/whats_the_score/pdf/cricket.pdf.
53 Peter Lalor, ‘New Man of Australian Cricket Usman Khawaja Represents Much More’, The Australian, December 31, 2010.
54 With an indigenous representation of up to 8 per cent in AFL: HREOC, What's the Score?, 73.
55 Andrew Catterall, Strategic Planning and Marketing, 2010 Annual Report, Australian Football League, http://www.afl.com.au/portals/0/afl_docs/afl_hq/annual_reports/2010/AR2010_06_PlanningMarketing.pdf.
56 Catteral, Strategic Planning and Marketing, 37.
57 Simon Barnes, ‘Fall of United, and Aussie Cricket, is Inevitable’, The Australian, October 23, 2010.