Monday, November 17, 2008

you can't play a hookshot with your tongue

"The one positive is there's not too many battle scars from playing Australia, within the team. There's some fresh new faces who haven't been exposed to them before,"

This is Kyle Mills.

Who after this seems to have forsaken swing bowling for Spin.

No battle scars, and only a few test centuries and match winning hauls.

While i understand Kyle is just trying to do the right thing by his team mates, sometimes clichés just get to me.

Battle Scars can be a bad thing, but they mean a player has been through a battle and survived, a sign of toughness.

I am not saying the current team is full on nansie pansies, but they don't have battle scars against Australia.

If Kyle was offered a team full of experienced test veterans who had all played good cricket against Australia, ofcourse he would take them over this lot.

It's common sense.

He can't say that though.

Because countless sports psychologists will have told him not too.

Honesty is no longer a part of professional sports.

If you are lucky there is one player in 10 that is worth talking to anymore.

And it isn't really their fault.

The young ones are programmed, and the old ones are threatened with diminishing contracts and sanctions.

I think to save alot of problems they should just take cut out the tongues of all cricketers when they first play for their country.

Then the psychologists can just forward their buzz phrases straight to the journalists.

See, I'm a thinker me.

cricketwithballs

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