Smarten up those saggy greens
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
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Michael Crutcher, writing in the Courier Mail, says Australia’s baggy green tradition has gone too far.
How else can you explain how Ricky Ponting wore his baggy green until it almost dropped off his head at the Sydney Cricket Ground last week? The tattered model, whose cloth had come apart to expose its white backing, was not befitting the highest sporting office in the country.
Relics from ancient Egypt have appeared in better condition than the caps in which Ponting and his predecessor Steve Waugh led their country. Ponting's cap has been repaired for the Test against Pakistan in Hobart – perhaps only because there was the real chance that Australia's most iconic sporting apparel was about to disintegrate and blow into the Derwent River.
In The Australian Malcolm Conn writes Ponting's repaired cap may just be the renewal the battered Australia captain needs to invigorate his unproductive summer.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo