Between sandpaper and a hard place. Cricket Australia’s sad plight – An opinion by Aubrey Joachim ‘After all cricket is just a game’, ‘They are young men who made a mistake’, ‘he’s a decent young man’ ….. these idioms are flowing thick and fast from some ex-cricketers, media commentators and sections of the Australian community who are aghast at the apparent severity of the sanctions being ‘offered’ to the three musketeers. But what is not realised is that sports is not ‘just a game’ anymore. It is big business with wide ramifications across a whole spectrum of society. Cricket itself is a business, it is financially propped up by other businesses to the tune of billions, creates thousands of jobs directly and indirectly. Therefore, the fate of the three truant musketeers was not just in the hands of their employer – Cricket Australia (CA) – alone but influenced by a ...

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