cricket with balls

Personally I think all sportsmen are brilliant writers.

I think in the future only professional athletes should write for newspapers because there words are so damn awe inspiring.

On Cric Info there is a brilliantly articulate article than only a person who spends his whole life with gloves on could have penned.

Kumar Sangakarra gives us amazing insights in the world of a cricketer about to play Australia.

According to Kumar “You’ve got to be prepared to grit your teeth, take body blows and keep going”.

And when writing your article Kumar, remember to take it one cliché at a time.

He also gives us some amazing insights into the psychological nature of his teammates.

Old Marvin is a “tough character”.

Fernando has “a heart to match the size of his body” (Lucky for him otherwise the blood may not flow correctly around his body resulting in death).

And Murali well he’s “devising plans and strategies to get wickets this time.”

Brilliant.

Even better than the article, is the title that Cric Info used for it.

“We have to annoy the opposition.”

Which in this climate, written by someone like Kumar, I was expecting some sort of article about how he plans on sledging the Ausrtalians, not some boring shit about grinding out ugly fifties.

How disappointing.

Right at the bottom of the article there is a bit of comic relief when he talks about how Murali called them on the tour of England and said “When will I be ready?”

What the fuck?

Why would he be ringing his teammates overseas to ask them if when he will be ready to play again?

Surely his doctors and physios would be a better judge than a touring team on a different continent.

Had the ghost writer been drinking? Don’t tell me in this day and age Kumar wrote this himself. Or did the ghost writer forget to tape the interview and just made up the last bit so he could put more of Murali in the article.

Well done Kumar and well done Cric Info.