Victorian cricket coach David Saker did not say anything that would be considered especially outrageous by anyone, except maybe by the Australian cricket selectors and perhaps his mate, the Australian coach. Which is fine, criticising the national selectors and Australian Test team management is a national sport about the national sport. And mates get over that sort of thing. The problem is Saker is a state coach and people up the chain didn't like it. Saker was asked a question and he answered it honestly. He said he thought it mystifying – ridiculous was the word he used – that Nathan Coulter-Nile could be picked for a Test without playing a shield game this summer. Every...
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