Does Australia own the subcontinent nations?
I think their culture while it feverishly follows cricket is probably also a bit corrupt and nepotistic. There seem to be a lot of “dodgy” things going on there and have been for some time eg. ball-tampering (not the first time Pakistan was caught out blatantly doing that) & rewarding spoilt badly behaving abusive players like Harbajhan Singh among others. They don’t have the same ethos of cricket equalling sporting and of being willing to work hard for their runs like us Aussies do. I think the cricketing culture in Australia is more stable & less willing to tolerate poor behaviour and poor players & it shows. That said, if we “own” the sub-continental teams then we * also * “own” England, New Zealand and most of the other cricketing nations too!
we got beat by india remember pakistan doesnt count because their country is in political unrest i dont think the subcontinent is incompetent, australia is lucky to have a lot more money as a developed country and id say the subcontinent has done pretty well to produce such legends (imran khan, sachin tendulkar) despite being third world.
