When things don't match up!
It seems nothing can go right for Australian cricket. On Friday, the bowling coach of Tim Paine's beleaguered bunch, David Saker, caused a mini storm by saying on radio that the captain and his bowlers were not on the same page with regards to strategy for Day One of the ongoing Sydney Test match against India. "The bowlers wanted one thing. Tim wanted one thing. That's not been the case as the general rule but when you were watching from the sideline, you could see there was some confusion. It wasn't great and it doesn't always happen," Saker told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Saker is right, things like these don't happen often in cricket. This diarist recalls a rare incident during a cricket tour on which the Indians were not hitting the high notes. In those days, there were not many formal press interactions so there was the Indian coach on one side of the indoor nets in Adelaide telling journalists that the team was low on morale while on the other side, the captain insisted his team were in good spirits despite a string of losses. We couldn't tell who got it right in their judgment of the team's morale, but the tour ended disastrously.