BoyBrumby
Englishman
Fred's post in the Gupte/Warne thread that a well known cricket writer acquaintence of his had said that Sir Garfield Sobers "has become a rather bitter man in recent years, and that will colour what he now says." got me thinking. There does seem to be a strain amongst cricket's great and the good who, when their careers end, mutate into miserable cantankerous old bastards with nary a good word to say about the modern game. Obviously it isn't all sweetness and light & one would be daft to pretend otherwise, but to hear some ex-pros talk it sounds as if they don't actually even much like the sport anymore.
Bishan Bedi belongs the curmudgeons' club with his never ending prattle about Murali, Neil Harvey has been shouting at clouds for a good few years now & Mick Vaughan seems to be shaping up into another great embittered Yorkshireman with his rather ill-judged remarks about Trott playing for England. Vaughan follows in a noble tradition as the People's Republic of the White Rose is the curmudgeon capital of the world with such marvellously miserable old so-and-sos like Messers Trueman, Boycott and Close chuntering on is this world and the next.
Thoughts? Nominations?
Bishan Bedi belongs the curmudgeons' club with his never ending prattle about Murali, Neil Harvey has been shouting at clouds for a good few years now & Mick Vaughan seems to be shaping up into another great embittered Yorkshireman with his rather ill-judged remarks about Trott playing for England. Vaughan follows in a noble tradition as the People's Republic of the White Rose is the curmudgeon capital of the world with such marvellously miserable old so-and-sos like Messers Trueman, Boycott and Close chuntering on is this world and the next.
Thoughts? Nominations?
