A journalist walks into a garage sale.
An unjustly shafted Australian cricketer is sitting at the back, rifling through a box of cricket gear.
Journalist approaches and asks cricketer if anything is for sale.
Cricketer says no, but you can have this jumper if you like.
Last year, in England, cricketer was noted by the press for giving away the very jumper he was wearing at a match, simply because a young boy told him he was a fan.
Journalist - despite having been given a free piece of cricket memorabilia - returns to his office and writes nasty piece about cricketer selling his Cricket Australia gear, implying that cricketer had spat the dummy over being dropped.
Cricketer is nice.
Journalist is arsehole.
That is all.
10 thoughts on this post:
So it was all balderdash for real?
If it is, darn, I should have gotten a bit less melodramatic about all this. *hangs head in shame*
Surely was, journo blaming someone else for changing it though: Don't mess with My Lord!.
You didn't get too melodramatic, but watch the pisstaking young lady! :-)
Greg to the rescue: http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/selectors-slam-hauritz-selloff-story-20101213-18vgj.html
Ah, I've been looking for the original version since you said it'd been...well..'misquoted' shall we call it.
I'm glad, despite not knowing anything of him when he first got called up, I knew you couldn't bet against him. He's Australian!
He's always looked dangerous, and getting dropped is probably the kick up the arse he needed and hopefully, once Ponting quits as Captain (which eventually will happen) he'll make a comeback with leader he can get on with. He deserves it.
Still not as good as Swanny though!
*runs and hides*
I want Nathan in the team, it's not fair! :(
I just hope Australia are still going crap by the time they get to Sydney, so that Hauritz is chosen. Because that is his home ground, right? And Beer was chosen on the sole reason that the WACA is his home ground.
Whatever.
Oh and thanks for following my blog. I shall follow yours, it looks pretty epic and I love cricket. :)
Thanks, Jonathan. Now, if only Greg could sort him out a place on the side ...
Creaig, you're right - he's not as good as Swann, as we are sadly discovering first hand this series. He still deserves to be in the side though. He has worked hard, done well for Australia and was dropped for only a short period of crappiness. Just wasn't right.
No problem, Laura. I saw you on Sunny's blog and had a look - the pink icing is swish!
It would be good to see Hauritz at Sydney. It is his home ground and it's spin friendly - he often does well there. Swann will love Sydney, too, though. Be nice to have won Perth and Melbourne on the way.
i doubt if they will go back to Hauritz in this series, as it will involve a lot of pride-swallowing by Hilditch and co
Sid, he might look as good as Swann if he got to bowl at our tosh tail-enders... and Punter is his current incarnation of the yesterday man.
That's 'in his', not 'is his'.
Bahhhh.
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