Arrogant Aussies? is the headline.
Good sportsmanship matters, but so – at this level – does a single-minded determination to win.. The recent tendency of Kiwi cricketers to rush in and shake the hand of opposition batsmen when they score a century smacks more of pc schoolyard “niceness” than genuine sportsmanship.
What next, re-jigging the rules so there are no winners and losers?
To be fair, this may have more to do with the media’s tendency to talk up trans-Tasman rivalry than any sentiment on the part of Kiwi fans, but there are enough deadheads and clowns on social media who are ready to run with it and abuse Australians as a result.
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Good sportsmanship is okay, but P-L-E-A-S-E!
Talk about taking things beyond the absurd!
I doubt that the players were at all perturbed. This looks like an under-employed “journalist” filling his/her day. If there’s no news they manufacture it!
This place is becoming more like a ‘gentleman’s club’ every day. It’s just like the old duffers with brandy balloon and fine Havana discussing the Test Series. While outside the bombs are falling. Only joshing, that’s what I like about this place, it’s comfy enough for us to say what is on our minds. I cannot comment on the cricket, being English I know little about it. The same goes for rugby too.
when it starts happening on the HOCKEY rink – then- we know we are really in deep s —-!
Carol-CS
I would have figured that shaking the hand of the bowler at 100 is a form of psychological intimidation designed to convey that they’re clearly not a threat.
But that’s just me…
Bowls. Lawn bowls. Here we shake hands when we arrive in the club house, with our opponents upon introduction, and again after the game, and again again after a pint or two when you leave. But. Not when your opponent turns the head around. We scowl. Make faces. Fart. Move away. It’s a bloody game, not sport. Mind games are part of games like cricket and bowls. You’ve got to climb inside their mind so that your actions or words directly influence your opponents next action. That’s how to defeat your enemy in games. If they are mindless you’re fuck*d.
Well KG, at least it was a retired Aussie batsman that complained.
They’d never make in in MLB
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