Forget Dr Phil - Justin Langer dissects the English psyche
Over the last week, a dossier on the English cricket team by Justin Langer was leaked to the press. Here are some of the highlights:
"England players work very hard on shining the ball after the lacquer is gone. They use Murray mints religiously to get it to shine up."
"Because they play so much cricket, as soon as it gets a bit hard you just have to watch their body language to see how flat and lazy they get... They are the best in the world of tapering off very quickly when things go a bit flat for them. This is also a time when most of them make all sorts of excuses and start looking around to point the finger at everyone else - it is a classic English trait from my experience."
"English players rarely believe in themselves. They like being friendly and 'matey' because it makes them feel comfortable. In essence this is maybe the key to the whole English psyche - they love being comfortable."
"Anderson can swing the ball well but again can be a bit of a pussy if he is worn down."
Apparently it's ruffled quite a few English feathers who don't take to being described as "flat", "lazy" and "pussies". Ricky Ponting, however, has put the scathing document in proper perspective:
"I'll admit I got given a copy of it and I had a brief read through it all, but I knew most of it anyway."
| Posted by JC on Mon 10 Aug |  43 comments |
yeah . n when australian failed to read ne bowler they complained it to umpires that they are ..bowling illegal deliveries.. chucking..blah blah..
we have examples of it in past... last victim was SAEED AJMAL.. though ICC has changed de arm angle to 15 degress..otherwise..every bowler will b banned due to aussies unablility of playing good bowlers hehe
CRY LIKE BABIES WHEN AUSSIES LOOSE A MATCH :D
Posted by addy on 2009-08-11 17:11:29
we have examples of it in past... last victim was SAEED AJMAL.. though ICC has changed de arm angle to 15 degress..otherwise..every bowler will b banned due to aussies unablility of playing good bowlers hehe
CRY LIKE BABIES WHEN AUSSIES LOOSE A MATCH :D
Posted by addy on 2009-08-11 17:11:29
The funny thing is that Langer was pretty much spot on in his evaluation of England's players, but we still lost. The problem was that our blokes crumbled more at the key moments than the English did.
Posted by kirby on 2009-08-26 17:51:51
Posted by kirby on 2009-08-26 17:51:51
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