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Filed under: Cricket, John Buchanan, Sport, Stuart Mcgill, The Ashes

Former Australian cricket team national coach John Buchanan is leaving his wooden spoon IPL franchise, the Kolkata Knight Riders.

Management school: John Buchanan with Ricky Ponting

This was no surprise to the cricket fraternity, not least former leg spinner and noted wine buff Stuart MacGill, who’d heard on the cricketing grapevine that Buchanan’s departure was a near certainty.

Buchanan’s main critic down the years has been Shane Warne. But it’s the thinking man’s leggie, MacGill, who’s unleashed the most stinging criticism yet of Buchanan, in the July issue of Alpha magazine.

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Peter Warrington says:

10:32am | 10/07/09

Marty, it was pretty clear that Dizzy had lost the zip during the series in NZ that preceded the Ashes. he papered over it with one typically blitzing 3-0 type of spell. but he was flat. (interestingly, he got the mojo back in that test against Bangladesh of all places.… Read more »
Marty from Malvern says:

05:47pm | 20/06/09

Anthony, All fair points. I would add that McGrath’s absences due to injury exposed how ill-prepared the other bowlers (excluding Warne) were. Lee - average 45. Useless in English conditions and I can’t believe they’ve picked him again for the upcoming tour. Gillespie - impotent and suffered a rapid decline… Read more »

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