Arthur gave his players five days to suggest how improvements could be made to the team’s performances at the halfway point of their hapless tour of India. One of the four men who missed the deadline was vice-captain Shane Watson, who responded to his penalty by walking out on the tour. The so-called “missing homework” fiasco made headlines around the world, plunged the team into crisis just four months before the start of back-to-back Ashes series and prompted a swarm of former players to berate Arthur’s apparently pedantic decision.Watson, who flew back to Melbourne to be with his pregnant wife, described the move as “very harsh”, and added that “I’m sort of weighing up my future and what I want to do with my cricket in general.He is not planning to return to the tour, even though he could theoretically be available for the final Test in Delhi, because the baby is due at the end of the month. Some have even questioned whether Watson will play Test cricket again, or become a Twenty20 gun for hire like Chris Gayle, of the West Indies. “It seems like it was on a schoolboy tour or something,” said former captain Allan Border
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