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    Tait told to stop ‘mouthing off’

    By Will last year, mid-December Leave a comment on this post

    Series between Australia and New Zealand are often spicy affairs, and that trend continued last week with New Zealand questioning the validity of Shaun Tait’s action. Ricky Ponting, his captain, acted all headmasterly by saying he was “disappointed” with New Zealand’s claims, and today Tait has offered to undergo ICC testing. But it doesn’t stop there; Brendon McCullum’s mouthing off and telling Tait to stop mouthing off.

    “If he’s Glenn McGrath, he can probably throw comments like that out there,” McCullum told AAP on Saturday. “But my only advice would be to maybe get a few more statistics behind him before he starts mouthing off.

    “I just thought it was a bit reckless from Taity. He’s a good bloke but he’s only played 15 games. When McGrath was very good at talking it up, he also had some unbelievable statistics behind him.”

    Great stuff all round, really.

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    3 Responses to “Tait told to stop ‘mouthing off’”

  • Steve wrote:
    December 16th, 2007 at 9.48 am

    Have to agree with McCullum here, who showed in the first match good spirit and goodwill (Xmas must be getting to me), something I have yet to see in Tait’s very few international outings . McCullum hit Tait, who basically has only two types of deliveries, all over the park in the that game.

    And not pleased that Tait has displaced Mitchell Johnson and/or Stuart Clark or possibly the in-form Noffke from the team. also.

  • Chris wrote:
    December 18th, 2007 at 12.01 am

    Maybe McCullum can tell people to stop mouthing off when he has some decent stats behind him. A test average of 30 and ODI of 24 says to me he really shouldn’t be having a go at bowlers.

  • Yobbo wrote:
    December 18th, 2007 at 1.13 am

    Why wouldn’t you have a go at batsmen who are so obviously shitting themselves? Especially if they are Kiwis.

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