Opinion: How the mythology behind Test captaincy led to Oscar-worthy drama | Malcolm Knox
To lose one may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two looks like carelessness. Oscar Wilde could have made merry with the loss of two Australian men’s Test cricket captains in a month. These days are so jittery, it’s conceivable that Travis Head, on the verge of not being in the side in the first week of December, could be captain by Christmas.
If all of this flux brings down the threshold of who meets the character test to be Australian men’s cricket captain, perhaps that is not a bad thing. This idea that it is the “second-most important office” in Australia also symbolises our era, which lacks both a sense of irony and a clear historical memory. John Howard said, as a joke in the 1990s, that he, as PM, held the second-most important office behind the men’s Test captain. His quip was soon inverted and spoken with a straight face.
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