What sort of man is Shane Watson?
Don’t answer.
Not content with turning the Pakistani batting line up into his bitches, he also completely embarrassed his own bowlers with a display of bowling competency.
But to do it on the day the world should be bowing down for Murali, that is just unfair.
Murali had done what he needed to do, took the last wicket in a dramatic way.
He knows how to work a crowd.
Keep them interested thinking that it might just all go wrong, then after a protracted last wicket partnership take the wicket and let the crowd and team mates take over from there.
It was perfect.
The lighting was right, his family were crying, the crowd was roaring, his teammates carrying him and a seemingly slow motion celebration happening around him. All he needed was some music composed by James Newton Howard and a crane shot starting on a close up of his face before moving back to show the whole scene.
But Shane Watson is not a fan of bowlers who deliver the doosra, ask Saeed Ajmal.
And he knew that there was one thing he could do that would dirty Murali’s magic day, and that was him taking wickets.
Nothing ruins a magical day like Shane Watson’s bowling.
He is like rain on your wedding day, he makes everything wet and women cry because of him.
And he knows it.
Six wickets, talk about taking the piss.
Five at Lord’s was bad, but this was one more, scary.
Cricket just feels wrong when Shane Watson is taking wickets.
Before he went out to bowl he knew this was Murali’s day, and look what he did.
Disgusting behaviour.
Murali deserved better than that, Shane.
You pig.
What a bastard.
I think the blame rests with the Pakistanis. I know its a young batting order but they can negotiate half volleys.
Its all part of a plan.
Next move is to bring back the massiah of doosra, Saqlain Mustaq to captain for the next test match.
Absolute quality Jrod – I was at Lords, head in hands with every wicket the blond bugger took – today I went to lunch, had some work to do, checked back in and the evil twat had 6 … what a complete arse!
Quite lovely. Unlike “him”.
That bastard seems to be the only one that can consistently pitch it up and bowl with the seam upright.
Ugggghhh.
I knew that Bolly and Mitch only have about 2 brain cells between them so peppering the middle of the pitch was to be expected from those two but I expected better of Hilfy.
Apparently he has just recently been listening to murder ballads just before each days play by way of preparation. It had been really helping before team meetings and press gigs, so he decided to take it out on the field too.
I’ve faced better and quicker bowlers on decks that had trees growing out of them and survived!
What is going on here?
Watson and Murali in the same sentence, and about bowling as well. What is going on?
I see he managed to give back one of his wicket vouchers, with his own quality dismissal.
Is there a neutral honours board at Headingley as well? Or has all talk of the existence of such items being banished after the names engraved on the one at Lord’s last week?
Think Wattos’ bowling is becoming a microcosm of this test series as a whole!!