The Summer Field

86 Journalism masked the reality that the two teams were becoming relatively less important. Shane Warne doubtless wanted Australia to win, as a broadcaster, as much as when he played for them; yet he had played years of county cricket in England, and went out with the English actress Liz Hurley. Just as cricketers and cricket journalists were forever falling out, so the English game bickered with Australia, precisely because they had so much in common.