age_master
Hall of Fame Member
Mike Hussey is not a walker...
Mike Hussey said:
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Walk or shut up
- Thread starter cricketwest
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PhoenixFire
International Coach
Does Gilly actually walk, or is it all talk?
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
So far as I've seen, since the incident (in WC2003 when he walked for the 1st time) he's been a completely dignified, honest walker. Doesn't surprise me, TBH - he's always struck me as a thoroughly principled guy who believes 100% in honesty. A gentlemanly sort of destroyer, bit like Garfield Sobers. And once he realised that not walking was dishonest, he seems to have thrown himself fully into the idea.
What interests me is that Hayden always used to be a full-blown non-walker... yet he walked for something at the start of this series!
What interests me is that Hayden always used to be a full-blown non-walker... yet he walked for something at the start of this series!
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
We noticed...
Wonder what his reaction might be next time he cops a rough-'un... I'd bet the toys will go out of the pram... wonder what might happen if that rough-'un happens to cost Australia a World Cup semis place...
age_master
Hall of Fame Member
Mike Hussey doesn't strike me as the type to do that sort of thing.
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Mike Hussey strikes me as the sort who'd go OTT about just about anything related to cricket... he's just too... focussed... it'll be a long time before I'll forget that reaction to hitting a six in a dead game where Australia were already cruising to an unassailable total... sure, it probably contributes to him having done as well as he has to date, but equally I can see how it might make him feel that everything should always go his way (which, to date, it almost exclusively has). His celebrations following the (ultimately fruitless) wicket of Smith in that ODI were another example... never has the name Mr Cricket been more appropriate.
I can imagine him (and the rest of the team, BTW) being apoplectic say he were to be given caught behind when it flicked his pad in the win-or-bust final Super Eight game and that resulting in Australia losing by 4 runs... and can only imagine his reaction if someone repeated that quote to him shortly after...
I can imagine him (and the rest of the team, BTW) being apoplectic say he were to be given caught behind when it flicked his pad in the win-or-bust final Super Eight game and that resulting in Australia losing by 4 runs... and can only imagine his reaction if someone repeated that quote to him shortly after...
SirBloody Idiot
Cricketer Of The Year
I still disagree with that.
I've had my fair share of shockers against me, just like I have had a fair few in my favour.
You can show displeasure at decisions when you are bowling, whether you walk or not. I just don't feel guilty at all when I get a decision in my favour, it doesn't bother me.
marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
For a start he's that good that he'd not get a shocker as he'd have dealt with the ball in the first place...
SirBloody Idiot
Cricketer Of The Year
That's crap.We noticed...
Wonder what his reaction might be next time he cops a rough-'un... I'd bet the toys will go out of the pram... wonder what might happen if that rough-'un happens to cost Australia a World Cup semis place...
We have seen no evidence to suggest him doing that. He has not once lost his temper when being dismissed, nor showed dissent.
Yes, he had an attitude problem when he was younger, but by all reports he is one of the best blokes in the side and you can see he is a well liked person among the players. I just don't see him having a fit when he cops a bad decision.
Fiery
Banned
SirBloody Idiot
Cricketer Of The Year
I'm pretty sure he means that Hussey is too good to give a chance to be out to a bad decision, because he'd deal with the ball before giving the umpire the chance to fire him.
Fiery
Banned
Still doesn't make any sense
SirBloody Idiot
Cricketer Of The Year
Umm. Its like saying he wouldn't get a bad decision, because he's so good he doesn't give chances?
Fiery
Banned
So Don Bradman never gave chances?
FaaipDeOiad
Hall of Fame Member
He walks. Most famous example being in the 2003 World Cup semi-final against Sri Lanka.
He also walked in the Ashes though, which I'd have imagined you'd remember.
Fiery
Banned
Doh!
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
Err, where the blazes does "enoying yourself" come into what I said?
What I was talking about was going completely OTT about getting pumped-up and aggressive.
Anyway, I thought I was on your ignore-list? Don't stop now, it's doing you so much good...
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
So how often has he had the chance to lose his temper in international cricket? How many times has he been sawn-off unfairly?
About the most unfair thing I can think of that happened to him was hitting the roof with that skied slog, and he wasn't exactly pleased about that and did make just a bit of a song-and-dance about it.