‘Can he play a cover drive?’: Allan Border questions potential opener<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m not talking about stress fractures or broken fingers or things like that. I\u2019m talking about little niggles.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel we are just wanting guys to be 100 per cent fit all the time, but that doesn\u2019t happen in Test cricket. You know, if you play the Ashes this summer, there\u2019s going to be something that hurts. And you\u2019ve just got to keep fronting up day after day.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, ACA CEO Paul Marsh has pushed back at claims that players aren’t doing their best to get back from injuries, explaining all cricketers would disagree with the sentiment.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the surface, this isn\u2019t a position the ACA would support,\u201d Marsh told AAP.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf a worker is injured in any workplace, systems that protect them from being financially disadvantaged are commonplace… The nature of sport is that athletes are more commonly injured than other workers, but the principle is still the same.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur system needs to support injured players.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe insinuation here is that some players may not be doing all they can to return to play as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I said, I\u2019d like to understand Johan\u2019s perspective on this… but I\u2019d expect the playing group would strongly disagree with this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian Cricketers Association CEO Paul Marsh has spoken out against Queensland Bulls and Brisbane Heat coach Johan Botha’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-236307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}