James Anderson’s a pussy. Andrew Strauss is a solid bloke. Matt Prior has an ego. Ravi Bopara’s a strutter. I dunno what all the fuss is about. Justin, tell us something we don’t know. Interesting, and a little sad really, that it was leaked to the press.
Over the last week, a dossier on the English cricket team by Justin Langer was leaked to the press. Here are some of the highlights:
"England players work very hard on shining the ball after the lacquer is gone. They use Murray mints religiously to get it to shine up.""Because they play so much cricket, as soon as it gets a bit hard you just have to watch their body language to see how flat and la...
They didn’t take a pasting as they did at Rajkot and Indore. In fact, one could argue that they were within striking distance of a win. But England did lose. This time, they were done in by bad light and two of their countrymen - Messers. Duckworth and Lewis.
But even before that, they could only [...]
Unless you’re particularly masochistic, or have absolutely no life, most Britons won’t have seen much of this one-day series. However, we have another day-night match tomorrow, which gives the rest of us a chance to witness England’s horrors in all its gruesome, filthy, achingly inexplicable form. That’s right: it’s the fifth of seven hundred ODIs [...]
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