Comments on: Jonathan Trott eats biltong and won’t touch marmite, sack him

By: SarahCanterbury

SarahCanterbury — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:42:54 +0000

Last Laugh - Thanks! (twice!) .-= SarahCanterbury´s last blog ..David Warner close up =-.

By: Last Laugh

Last Laugh — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:26:41 +0000

“How rude.”

Bless you Sarah. That made me laugh.

Civility here on the balls… smirk, giggle, guffaw.

PS – Love your pics.

By: SarahCanterbury

SarahCanterbury — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:37:27 +0000

Deluded, am I? How rude. Can't be bothered arguing with you. And that isn't because I couldn't. .-= SarahCanterbury´s last blog ..T20 Geraint Jones =-.

By: Dhananjay Mhatre

Dhananjay Mhatre — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:32:12 +0000

@Rohit
Samaraweera ain’t no dipshit. He took a bullet and still scored tons of runs in his next digs. Still I do get your point.
Trott makes an invaluable contribution in the last Ashes test and then gets shit upon by Vaughan who in my opinion was a very average batsman with a spectacular three four season right smack in between. Such a narrow mindset is never good.

By: Rohit

Rohit — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:27:36 +0000

This is funny! Hilarious actually! There are people here defending English cricketers…..I mean really …that’s almost as deluded as the people from my land who think there is an express pace bowler in India somewhere! Face it….you’ve pretty much been pathetic for the best part of two decades…. Reality is harsh but then again you think Michael Vaughan is a good batsman…For people as deluded as that it might take a little while! An average of 41!! a no 3 batsman! In spite of playing in an era where dipshits like samaraweera avg 50! He’s come out against trott? I would say being un- english is probably better!

By: SarahCanterbury

SarahCanterbury — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:21:02 +0000

I grant you that England have had a number of forgettable players but we've also had some bloody good ones who've had character in spades - Darren Gough & Beefy are two that instantly come to mind. Less enamoured with Botham as a commentator but he was an awesome player and inspired a whole generation of cricketers and cricket lovers. .-= SarahCanterbury´s last blog ..Jimmy Anderson appeals for the wicket of Shane Watson =-.

By: Dustbinner

Dustbinner — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:58:31 +0000

Trott may have Saffer mates and get quite chummy with them, but there’s no way he’d ever go back and play for South Africa – the Saffers prefer their cricketers to be good at cricket.

Usually.

We Aussies like ours to not injure themselves all the time, but you can’t have everything can you?
.-= Dustbinner´s last blog ..How Mahendra Singh Dhoni joined Swanny and Little Andy on my list of cricketers who need to be smacked =-.

By: karachikhatmal

karachikhatmal — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:48:45 +0000

hahaha fair point sarah... there are others too i remember from my short trouser days, like ealham and hollioake and mullaly and nick knight and hick and a host of compltely forgettable players. .-= karachikhatmal´s last blog ..The Omniblogus - Tangent 3: There was Once a Wasim =-.

By: SarahCanterbury

SarahCanterbury — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:20:35 +0000

Karachikhatmal - ref your comment, "the english players I have seen in my lifetime........", presumably you're still in short trousers? .-= SarahCanterbury´s last blog ..Saj Mahmood stretching =-.

By: karachikhatmal

karachikhatmal — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:24:39 +0000

what i don’t get is why do the poms crave such traits in a player when it appears that the essential ‘british’ or ‘english’ player seems to be the bell or cook type – techinically correct with the character of a tooth pick.

the english players i have seen in my lifetime are almost inevitably averagely talented, and have absolute zero personality. you can rattle off the examples – anderson, broad, bell etc etc…

the ones who actually look like being aggressive and gregarious like harmison and trescothik have massive mental problems.

flintoff is the only one who bucks the trend – other than that vaughn and england should probably wish for all the non-englishy types they can find.
.-= karachikhatmal´s last blog ..The Omniblogus – Tangent 3: There was Once a Wasim =-.