Ashes debacle rolls on

Monday 24 June 2013

Don’t say I didn’t warn you, after the David Warner affair now we get this:

Cricket Australia has sacked head coach Mickey Arthur on the eve of the Ashes.

The former South Africa coach, whose contract was due to run until the end of the World Cup in March 2015, was informed of the decision over the weekend.

Only the weather stands between us and an historic 10-nil whitewash.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.