Comments on The Cricket Watcher's Journal: The Lucky B@st@rd Symonds

I must say that the way a lot of Aussie players co...

2008-01-29T07:05:00.000-08:00

I must say that the way a lot of Aussie players conducted themselves in this series did not endear themselves to cricket fans around the world. They were even criticsed by their own media, with a poll showing that a lot of Aussies felt that Ponting should be replaced as captain because of his behaviour, and the behaviour of the team under his leadership.

Hi Mikey,Was caught up with things later yesterday...

2008-01-28T15:20:00.000-08:00

Hi Mikey,

Was caught up with things later yesterday.

I have rarely used such language, anyway this belongs to Bradd Hogg, I don't use this term ever but have learnt it since.

If you saw the match on Sunday, you'd know what I mean. Symonds was all over the place whispering through clenched teeth to Indian players (the camera's focussed), butting into them etc. He ran through Dravid as if he didn't exist. For no reason at all...no run was even being contemplated. Ricky Ponting was also caught trying to provoke Harbhajan with words on camera...Harbhajan this time refused to pick up the bait and shrugged his shoulders. Ricky Ponting even ran into Harbhajan at the runners end a little while later when Harbhajan was bowling....there was no threat of a run out, the ball was far from Ricky the runner, and it certainly hadn't any chance of going for four...it was already rolling to a stop. I didn't even write about Ricky's deliberate provocation!

It was all caught on the camera and the camera zoomed in and replayed it.

It is things like these going on consistently and much ignored by a one-sided Mike Proctor, ICC and press that has made me come out with a Bradd Hoggian blog post.

According to him and Australians, this is not a strong or bad term...it is in fact a term of envy and congratulations...or so we are given to understand.

I don't ever care what Symonds ever achieves in his entire career...as far as I am concerned.

And I actually deleted a downright religiously insulting post here from someone who must be an Australian poster icongnito. I have no sympathies...and I didn't post anything here on this till now other than let's punish the guilty fair and square and move on to cricket, on 606.

In fact I kept urging India not to withdraw and play on if you recollect some of my articles at 606.

This Symonds will get away again...he will get away many times but he can't get away from himself...he'll land himself into a real soup just you see. Either on the cricketing field or outside. He needs therapy. Symonds belongs to a padded cell...period.

SB, your words may have been a bit strong, but I g...

2008-01-28T07:44:00.000-08:00

SB, your words may have been a bit strong, but I get the gist....

Maybe Symonds thrives on confrontation. he seems to have ended this series with a very good batting average, and his bowling wasn't too bad either!

But, yes, he has turned off a lot of fans with the way he has behaved....

Scorpi, I reserved my comments on this loony all t...

2008-01-27T07:32:00.000-08:00

Scorpi, I reserved my comments on this loony all through the controversy since India. I gave the chap, once upon a time a cricketer I admired greatly, the benefit of doubt. Anyway, I was of the view matters of thefield should have been sorted out on it and gentlemen should get on with the game. If anyone has done something wrong, have a fair trial, punish and move on.

But now I have no sympathy for this lunatic.

Any psychiatrist will read his behaviour and arrive at the conclusion that this is a nutcase on the loose and a danger for many others. His mental state is such that he should be in a padded cell rather than a cricket field and among people. He's downright dangerous to the game and others.

And his ill mind has developed the pea-sized cunning which usually comes to such troubled minds...they manipulate, provoke, constatntly draw attention through their actions and try and shift the blame on others...unfortunately, this pea-sized cunning carries the deadly potential of creating plenty of trouble and unhappiness for the world at large before it is recognized, identified, conqured and isolated. We see many such psychopaths/sociaopaths every day around us. Don't we see the disorder and unhappiness they spread?

Mark my words...this is one loose cannon headed for trouble...if not today, sometime soon. He is an out of control V-8 engine driven by the dangerously childish NFS mind of video games and the like which cannot separate reality from a fantastic existence..

This guy needs to be in the coop and pronto before he actually hurts someone or himself. The sad thing is his initial drivers can no longer control the monstrous software they have created.

Just you watch...he will get into trouble either on or off the cricket field..maybe both, without treatment.

What a bastard of a post :) Soulberry... tomorrow ...

2008-01-27T07:01:00.000-08:00

What a bastard of a post :) Soulberry... tomorrow am featuring this post on my site... excellent. As for that lucky bastard, he can continue with his boorish behaviour, continue to utter loud "fucks" picked up on prime time TV, when a decision doesn't go his way or when he gets out and the lucky bastard always gets away with nothing as though the whole world has to reverse all the bastardish racism they meted out when he was in his soaked nappies.