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I am lazy and only started reading the book two nights ago. Even though i got it for christmas. 
I have read 100 pages already and i am really enjoying it. 
Steve hasn’t lost his snark
By Scott 4 years ago, at the end of April Add your comment below
Steve Waugh’s in London today, and he was doing a book signing down Canary Wharf ( I think you might have missed it now though.) With all that, he’s been in demand with the press over there wanting his views on the various cricket issues of the day, and also with an eye ahead towards the Ashes.
He’s always worth a read, and he hasn’t lost his trademark aggression. Sometimes it is almost too much, as in this BBC story.
In their 2-1 defeat in England last year, Waugh said: “I thought from the sidelines perhaps they were a little bit too friendly.
“They were using England players’ nicknames in the press and that was something that hadn’t been done before.
“They may have become too familiar to England and lost a bit of mystique.”
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“When I first played West Indies we didn’t know much about them, they kept pretty much to themselves and that gave you self doubts on the field,” he explained.
“As you get to know players more you become less intimidated by them.”
Waugh, who is currently in England promoting his autobiography, admitted England had followed the lead set by his teams in being aggressive on and off the field.
“There’s no doubt they followed the blueprint of what we were about. They were very positive in their media talk and pretty aggressive on the field,” he continued.
Hmm.
I actually liked that the two teams liked each other. Crusty old diehards like Waugh might fire up at the thought of bloodied combat unto death, etc, but I rather like the notion of two teams fighting hard and then having a beer together at the end of the day. As to the notion that doing so removes the mystique, the most sociable of Australians is The Great Man, Shane Warne, who drank pots of pints, and took pots of English wickets.
Just because you know and like the guy doesn’t mean you can play him any better.
Tags: aggression, australia, beer, book, canary-wharf, england, mystique, shane-warne, steve-waugh, the-ashes, the-great-man, west-indies |
4 Responses to “Steve hasn’t lost his snark”
April 26th, 2006 at 5.38 am
April 26th, 2006 at 6.32 am
I wonder what Steve has to say about Pointing’s Team which eventually won the last frontier “India” and what he thought about the team and how they went about it. Steve was not able to do it and whats worse came close to losing a test series against the indians in their own backyard in his farewell game.
You win some , You loose some. They won in India (focused all their engergies, potential, tactics and so on) and lost the uber important Ashes, even though both the series were far in between. I believe it still takes a lot out of player when you play in an important series. Mind you both the series India and Ashes, the Aussies were playing away from their home. I throughly enjoy when they play, even if they play against my team India.
April 26th, 2006 at 1.02 pm
Funny to hear Waugh described as ‘a crusty old diehard’.
I suppose its a sign of my increasing age – but I think of Tugga as the archetypal modern Australian cricketer.
Waugh’s formative experiences were in a dreadful Aussie side that got caned by everyone. It wasn’t until Alan Border stopped being the poor man’s David Gower and started to adopt an ultra-aggressive approach (from the ‘89 Ashes onwards) that Australia started winning again.
Back in ‘89 the ‘crusty old diehards’ were the ones bemoaning the lack of the after match pint.
The spirit of the Ashes was a wonderful thing to behold – just don’t hold your breath expecting the same chumminess when England arrive down under.
It’s going to be brutal.
April 29th, 2006 at 3.43 pm
The more I think about this, the more it niggles me, what Waugh said. After all, so many Aussies look for County places during our summer. Hampshire is practically Warnie’s home from home. Dizzy joins Yorkshire, for goodness sake. Of course they will be friends and share a drink and BBQ together.
But when the Ashes are next up for grabs, that will not make the slightest bit of difference
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