SYDNEY - Australia's media lashed out at the country's "mollycoddled" cricketers Wednesday, saying they were a "disgrace" and heads should roll after crashing to a fifth successive Test defeat. "Humiliating", the Sydney Morning Herald screamed in a front page headline, while The Australian said: "Disgrace to the Baggy Green." The tabloid Sydney Daily Telegraph called the team "a bunch of amateurs", with cricket writer Robert Craddock saying they had become pampered and lost their backbone. "Australia’s players are overpaid and mollycoddled to the point where the priceless quality that separates the great from the good -- resilience -- is almost invisible. "Australia is facing the reality that old fashioned, stone-faced Test match warriors like Allan Border and Steve Waugh are a dying breed."

Source: Bangkok Post November 16, 2016 00:46 UTC