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Motormouth Caddick
By Rich Abbott last year, at the start of December Add your comment below
Last month, SPIN magazine ran an interview with Andy Caddick, recently departed from the county scene. He didn’t hold back. This month, he returns as a ’star columnist’. Smart move.
Character assasinations are doled out to Luke Wright, Alastair Cook, Ian Bell and – perhaps most unfairly – Paul Collingwood, whose attitude is questioned for “failing to step up to the plate”, i.e. the number three spot, during the Ashes. Why should he? Surely no-one’s more acutely aware that Collingwood’s technique is unlikely to stand up to the rigours of the upper top order than the man himself. Anyway, he was struggling to do what he does best at number five.
I digress, but much of what Caddick says provokes a reaction. On the one hand, you’ve got an ex-pro, distanced from the international game and happy to park himself, rather emphatically, on one side of the fence. On the other hand, a sense gained from the November issue, is that none of the hard-done-by feelings and gripes against the England set-up have dissipated with time.
A similarly long-held grudge made the news last week when Roy Keane commented on the Thierry Henry handball fiasco. Clearly none of the ill feeling relating to Keane’s own fiasco – at World Cup 2002 – has soothed, and thus a bitter undercurrent clouds his views on this incident.
The same may be true with Caddick, but either way it makes good reading.
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