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Loading ...I love that gimmick hey. I was disappointed, when we were playing England last year (or was it this year? either way 12 months ago-ish) that some of the English lads didn’t partake.
‘Jam this big bastard’
By Will 3 years ago, mid-December Add your comment below
Great piece from Peter English on Andrew Symonds and Adam Gilchrist’s use of the mic:
The same players who were frightened by the thought of allowing some of their language to be broadcast in Tests, particularly in South Africa and Bangladesh, where the effects microphones are usually more sensitive to fielding chatter, allowed an insight into their real lives. To see the men, who commentated a couple of overs without much intervention from their former team-mates in the Nine box, operate so candidly in a game they were treating fairly seriously was a shock. They displayed their personalities with thoughtful and revealing remarks alongside jokey-blokey jibes in a way that most athletes don’t – or won’t – during the short times granted for cliché-filled press conferences.
Tags: adam-gilchrist, andrew-symonds, bastard, microphone, twenty20 |
3 Responses to “‘Jam this big bastard’”
December 20th, 2007 at 2.26 pm
December 24th, 2007 at 12.25 pm
Astrid,
the poms took years to get into coloured clothes for one dayers so it will take them just as long to mike up in 20-20. Which is a joke when you consider they were the ones who started 20-20!
December 30th, 2007 at 11.29 am
Sitting here in our English winter I watched the 20-20 and thought the comments by Gilchrist and Symonds were a fantastic innovation and should be encouraged at international level. We’re all intrigued by what it’s really like “out there in the middle”. The reason us English won’t like it is that it will reveal that we have no tactics, no gameplan and no idea about how to influence a game. A sad reflection on the English game but true I’m afraid.
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