Australian all-rounder Shane Watson was one of the four players suspended along with James Pattinson, Usman Khawaja and Mitchell Johnson. Photo / Getty Images
After years of having Australian teams ride roughshod over them, you might have thought the leaders of England and New Zealand would have relished the chance to take a potshot at the troubled Australian squad in India.
Not so.
As Cricket Australia tries to sort out an unholy mess among
its embattled squad in India, as tempting as it may have been to poke the borax at their rivals across the Tasman, both Alastair Cook and Brendon McCullum opted to let a half tracker pass by outside their off stump today.
Four Australian players have been dropped for the third test starting in Mohali today and one, vice captain Shane Watson, has headed home amid claims of ill-discipline off the field.
The most recent example cited is the out-of-favour quartet of Watson, Usman Khawaja, James Pattinson and Mitchell Johnson failing to fulfill a request to assess their own performances following the second test loss in Hyderabad.
