For Onions.
Not so much at his performance, but at his name.
While Onions bowled well, 7 wickets on debut isn’t shabby, the English seemed much more interested in his name.
The Guardian wrote a special piece about it.
These are the ones they found.
Sizzling Onions
Raw Onions flavour of the day as West Indies collapse in tears
Onions off to a sizzler
Onions is so tasty
Onions fries them up.
Five-star Onions gives West Indies roasting.
Green Onions leaves Windies in a pickle
Onions gives West Indies five reasons to be tearful
String of Onions – Graham debut salvo leaves West Indies weeping,
5 in the Onion bag
Onions bags a five-for
Onions relish.
Cheers and Onions
Wicket spree ensures West Indies know their Onions.
Onions slices open Gayle’s apathetic troops and puts victory in sight.
We can only hope they have punched themselves out.
As for Onions, I was impressed, he bowls good line and length at decent pace.
More a stock bowler than a destroyer, but is a wicket taker, so England should be happy.
However, he should be dropped, not because he is a threat to Australia, or because he seems to be a bit boring, but because Onion puns are completely shithouse.
Onions may run around us come the Ashes
Do you mean Onion might run rings around us?
Nah more likely sliced, diced and stuffed into a risole.
We’ve had a bit of Onion, and it’s burned us in the eye – Chris Gayle
Imagine the hilarity if he ever gets to bowl to Harbadjan….
I think the smart arse feeling towards Onions and the champion English bowlers is unwarranted and unfair. They slaughtered the Windies, such pace, such precision, such scariness. I mean, who would argue that Broad was not sinister, Anderson not nightmarish, Swann wet dreamish in a non sexual 12-year old boy on boy type of thing. Go crazy england – you smashed those farkers, amazing, tough, rugged, strong. Probably the most dominating performance that international cricket has seen since England played an Ashes series
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