According to William Shatner you don’t want to be one.
Jacob Oram has spent the best part of his career with the tag of “NP†never far away from him.
Jason Gillespie would play if he had a broken leg in the second part of the career to dispel the myth that he was.
Daniel Flynn better get used to it.
Cricket, test cricket, is not a place for the soft.
Facing Brett lee, Dale Steyn or Malinga is a test of courage.
Flynn got hit, he lost a tooth or two, he suffered concussion, he threw up for hours, he could not sleep, and he didn’t bat.
On the face of it he looks soft.
The truth is that he wanted to bat in the 2nd innings and he wasn’t allowed.
It may place too much importance on him to say it cost the victory, but it sure as hell didn’t help.
Educated cricket fans will know Flynn wanted to bat, but everyone else will label him soft.
And once pronounced soft, the label sticks for a long time.
Flynn looks anything but soft.
He looks like he should be beating up bigger kids at an arcade parlour.
While this will sound harsh, he reminds me of Justin Langer.
A scrapper, a fighter, a tough little bastard.
So why hold him back?
Australia spent Langers whole career putting him in harms way.
He debuted as a 21 year old against the Windies, and loved it.
He fielded at short leg for almost ten years.
He was told if he got hit in the head one more time he could die, he continued to play.
One time Langer almost got killed in South Africa by a Ntini bouncer, the Doctors told Ponting that Langer could not bat.
With 8 wickets down and 10 runs to get Langer padded up, Ponting told him he would try and restrain him from getting to the field, or declare on him.
Australia one without losing another wicket.
Langer said afterwards had Ponting stopped him from batting he would have never talked to him again.
That is the sort of player you want on your side.
New Zealand needs more players that will die to win a test match.
They have the bling, Taylor, Oram and Prince Brendan, now they need the grunt.
Flynn seems to be potentially grunt like, so let him play with a sore head, and see how he goes.
He still has plenty of teeth left.www.cricketwithballs.com
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