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    Handbags at 22 yards

    By Scott last year, at the start of October Leave a comment on this post

    Thanks to work commitments, I didn’t see much of the second ODI between Australia and India that seems to have stirred up something of a hornet’s nest, with boys behaving badly on both sides. But from what I have seen, it has been pretty pathetic, and the captains on both sides need to tell their players to pull their heads in and stop acting the goat.

    That goes double for Australia. The entire team is pretty much full of experienced players who should know better then to get involved in slanging matches. For example, Symonds should have stayed out of it when Sreesanth tried to confront Brad Haddin-  Haddin was showing with the bat that he was quite capable of looking after himself.

    It’s a bad sign, because in the next twelve months or so, India and Australia are basically going to be in each other’s faces all the time- a nightmare of bad scheduling again. So it would be good if they could all get along.

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    4 Responses to “Handbags at 22 yards”

  • Rusty wrote:
    October 4th, 2007 at 2.39 am

    Scott, the promoters and the media ( not you, of course) don’t want them to get along! Handbags are what sells tickets. Everyone was saying how boring ODI’s are, so the boys have just spiced it up of us.

    Against the “new look” India, the South Africans had Nel, in England they used jellybeans, here it’s Roy.

    I blame the umpires, for not actually controlling procedures. But then, perhaps they are worried about being cast as second Hairs?

    Having read of Sreenath being described elsewhere as “the most slappable face in cricket”, I was predisposed to dislike him. But by the end of the match, I began to feel sorry for him. All that pride and talent and he’s wasting it on tantrums. He should focus it into his bowling and choose the right bunnies, not Symonds, who isn’t going to let a bit of song and dance frighten him.

    I notice no-one reported the hit on the head to Sreenath by Dhoni, and Hopes being the first one to comfort him. Not the right look for publicity, I suppose.

  • John wrote:
    October 4th, 2007 at 10.19 am

    You don’t have to worry about being partisan, boss. Good stuff.

  • Reverse Swing wrote:
    October 4th, 2007 at 10.00 pm

    ‘So it would be good if they could all get along’…????!!!

    HIPPY!!

  • Nandan wrote:
    October 22nd, 2007 at 6.30 am

    Sreesanth rocks and perhaps the australians will have to eat their own words..

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