12 January

On the same day there were stories about Warner’s seven-storey mansion at Maroubra with its own private beach, he hires a helicopter to get to a game. It should ring alarm bells. This game, where they struggle now to get crowds (or even teams) at most Test matches, and nobody is much interested in 50-over cricket or even T20s, has players retiring in their 30s with tens of millions in the bank. Hard not to see it as one generation of players pillaging the game for personal benefit, leaving wreckage behind them.