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Loading ...Surely that must have been a joke, Will? What exactly is it with all this pc rubbish anyway? Oh dear, oh dear. Whatever happened to the Spirit of cricket?
Bravo that man
By Will last year, mid-June Leave a comment on this post
Dwayne Bravo sounds more like a name of an American basketball player than a West Indian cricketer. And if this tour amounts to nothing more than a disaster in terms of results, at least the team has Dwayne and his heroics. This guy is seriously good and nothing less than entertaining to watch.
He is cocky and boastful. He bounced Kevin Pietersen, knocking his helmet off, then sprinted down the pitch in a mad celebration - completely disregarding Pietersen who might well have been injured. “Who cares?!” Bravo might’ve thought. “I’ve just dismissed one of the world’s very best batsmen”. One who, incidentally, then claimed he had “never been hit on the head before”, a statement which I think might well be a load of balderdash.
Watching him bat today was a fascinating experience. Owing to yet another damned delay due to rain, Sky were showing us highlights of the 1993-94 tour - the tour which first sparked my love of the game, as I’ve said far too many times - containing West Indian batsmanship of true Caribbean flair. Their opponents, England, were a mishmash of talent: immensely gifted batsmen with mental flaws, brought up in an equally flawed county system. England rarely took the attack to West Indies. It was all about grafting and grinding.
Fast forward 13 years and how things have changed. Two West Indian batsman - Bravo and Shivnarine Chanderpaul - battling it out as though their lives depended on it (their livlihoods probably do, but that’s a matter for another day). Battling it out like Atherton once did. And they did it brilliantly. Bravo to both of them, but particularly to Dwayne. He’s young and gifted and wants to succeed, badly. You can’t say that about many of his peers.
Incidentally, on comms today I nearly wrote “Barov” instead of Bravo. I told the readers this:
I nearly called Bravo “Barov” just then. Barov being Dwayne’s Russian cousin of course
A bored feedbacker wrote in to accuse me of being racist. Have the general public completely lost their sense of humour now?
Tags: dwayne-bravo, england, kevin-pietersen, kevin-pieterson, Shivnarine-Chanderpaul, west-indies, West-Indies-in-England |
6 Responses to “Bravo that man”
June 17th, 2007 at 1.28 am
June 17th, 2007 at 2.04 am
You should have put that comment up, maybe with a cutting reference to “transference” or something like that. My theory is if someone makes baseless accusations on an international website, they deserve to be humiliated.
June 17th, 2007 at 3.50 am
I didnt pick you up on that one 
I did however try to go for a Spramble today…
:P
June 17th, 2007 at 4.21 am
I notice that some cricinfo readers say the stupidest things, but I’m not sure whether you guys pick out the stupidest ones, or whether they reflect the general public!
I remember the time one man wrote in to say how Jenny shouldn’t be commentating because she’s a female.. now that was a load of balderdash.
Or the grumpy readers that grumble at the non-cricket related commentary.
June 17th, 2007 at 9.42 am
We get a lot of praise, but we get some absolute filth too! They complain about the irreverency (look it up Elliott!), make daft remarks about Jenny being a girl, “stick to the cricket” etc etc. And the pedants - well, they really do take the biscuit. Yesterday, I said that there would be a pitch inspection at 12.00pm. A dozen or so emails then flew in saying “Excuse me, but there is no such time as 12.00pm. It is either Noon, or simply 12.00 in the afternoon”. So naturally we have to shame some of them…
June 17th, 2007 at 10.26 am
Go on, shame them.. us normal Cricinfo readers live for this sort of thing 
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