Justin Langer - "Where have all Australia's critics gone?"

In his column for BBC Sport, Justin Langer has vented his spleen about the criticism the Aussie team faced after defeat in the CB and Chappell-Hadlee series', and is asking where the critics are now.  It's quite a long piece but can be summed up in text speak thus: "we won, all u hataz can x my ass, Buchanan 4evr!"

I don't live in Australia, so I did not see the kind of press they received there after the aforementioned drubbings.  But in the UK the thrust of most of the coverage was hope that those performances might mean we have a competitive World Cup, but that you can guarantee it was probably a blip.  That was certainly the Googly's view at the time.  So, one wonders whether Justin's rant says more about him and his own lack of perspective than that of the press. [image: Getty]