For the past three months the cricket press has concentrated on the destruction of the England cricket team at the hands of Australia. It now emerges that correspondents were missing a bigger story.
While Mitchell Johnson was carving up the England batting order, the England, Australia and India cricket authorities were doing the same to international cricket.
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