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Australia’s leading cricket writer describes and analyses Australia’s cricket supremacy over the last three decades – the players, the tactics, the controversies.

Australians have always played cricket by their own lights. Unimpressed by an inheritance from a distant land, they embarked upon their own independent course.

From the outset, Australian cricket’s approach was founded in realism. By and large, it has lacked sentiment and charm, in which respect it reflects the nation.

Australian cricket is the sound of sprigs on concrete, the sight of umpires with fingers raised high above their heads, the reading of the score the wrong way around, leg spinners ripping the ball with all their might, a slip cordon unemotionally chewing gum as a fast bowler reaches his mark, and sunscreen splashed across faces.

It is a game of harsh light, fiery bowlers, forceful batsmen and lean fieldsmen, a game played across the nation.

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