Mitchell Johnson retirement: Did fans' adulation expose a double standard?

By Malcolm Knox
Updated November 21 2015 - 1:18am, first published November 20 2015 - 8:00pm

A few hours after Mitchell Johnson farewelled Test cricket, the English cricket writer and former fast bowler Mike Selvey caused a minor kerfuffle (a 'k'fuf'?) by tweeting: "2013 WACA, great bowler retires mid series. Opprobrium heaped. 2015 WACA, great bowler retires mid series. Hero."

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