< 1 minute read Andrew Symonds: he’s just a hard-drinkin’, fishin’, pig-wrestlin’ Aussie who’s only happy doin’ outdoors things in the bush. He loved cricket, but life in the public eye was too much for him. The intense glare of the media made him crack. Thankfully, all that’s behind him now and he can
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Shane Watson, Andrew Symonds and the scented candle – an abbreviated anecdote
< 1 minute read Watson thought the changing room stank and lit a scented candle. Andrew Symonds gave him shit for it. Andrew Symonds comes out of this well; Shane Watson less so. This tale comes from Matthew Hayden’s autobiography. We hope we get a review copy. Buying Matthew Hayden’s autobiography would effectively mean
Continue readingHave you lost interest in IPL 2010 yet?
< 1 minute read We have a bit. It’s not so much that we don’t really care about any of the teams – you can get over that. It’s more the feeling that none of the matches actually matters yet. They’re still going to be playing in a few weeks’ time and maybe then
Continue readingAndrew McDonald instead of Andrew Symonds
< 1 minute read If you don’t know who Andrew McDonald is, imagine a side’s seventh batsman and their fifth bowler. Now imagine he bowls medium-pace. Now wake up again. If it weren’t for having hair that’s such a bright shade of red that it clashes with life itself, Andrew ‘Ronald’ McDonald wouldn’t be
Continue readingAndrew Symonds continues to embrace tooldom
< 1 minute read It’s difficult to escape the feeling that Andrew Symonds is being punished by Cricket Australia for just generally being a bit of a pillock. Symonds isn’t being selected for Australia’s upcoming tour of South Africa. It’s partly because he went on radio half-cut and called New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum ‘a
Continue readingAndrew Symonds hits new low
< 1 minute read He was in ‘an altercation’ with some guy in a pub. Apparently the other guy, an official in the Aussie armed forces, asked for a picture with Symonds and when the hulking all-rounder said no, threw a couple of punches at him. That’s not the shocking part though. If truth
Continue readingWhy Andrew Symonds fell out with Michael Clarke
< 1 minute read Andrew Symonds said: “I did something silly with him one night and I suppose I was a bit disrespectful to him.” What does that sound like to you? It sounds like it could only be one thing to us. What act is both silly and disrespectful? Ask yourself that. It
Continue readingSymonds: Pick me – I’m not a knob now
< 1 minute read Ever since he was sent home from Australia’s one-day series against Bangladesh, speculation has been rife about Andrew Symonds. Specifically, that speculation has centred on exactly what kind of aquatic creature molested him as a child. Some say it was a turbot, some say a merman. Taken as a whole,
Continue readingAndrew Symonds: tool
< 1 minute read We’ve long suspected Andrew Symonds of being a five-year-old trapped in the body of a hirsute cow. That opinion is being reinforced of late. From The Australian: “Stung $3000 for missing the team bus, he became what one person described as “the rule Nazi” and would ensure he was on
Continue readingAndrew Symonds crosses the fishing line
< 1 minute read Andrew Symonds has been sent home from Australia’s one-day series against Bangladesh IN DISGRACE after missing a team meeting because he was out fishing. It’s a fairly minor misdemeanor in itself, but it seems there were other incidents which led the Australian hierarchy to question Symonds’ attitude. Unconfirmed rumours emanating
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