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Someone slapped Ross Taylor

Shady Slim

Shady Slim

International Coach
Arachnodouche said:
I'm surprised at all these revelations from the book. Always thought of Taylor as a bit of a badass but he seems to have put up with a ton of **** over the years. No Jake The Muss obviously.
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nothing is more badass than showing the restraint to turn the other cheek
 
C

Chrish

International Debutant
It’s a passive aggressive behavior but western style professionalism just doesn’t exist in Asia.

Even so-called first world country like Singapore has apartments advertising “we don’t rent to Indians”..

What’s shocking to west is the way of life over there.
 
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Arachnodouche said:
I'm surprised at all these revelations from the book. Always thought of Taylor as a bit of a badass but he seems to have put up with a ton of **** over the years. No Jake The Muss obviously.
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I'm not either...and I haven't read the book, but it all seems a bit lame. I don't say that lightly, I love Ross Taylor. But it all seems a bit 'he did this, they did that, all this happened' which all reads great as clickbait for the media to use, but I don't think it does you tremendous justice as a legend of NZ cricket who is so much more than that. I should read it to get full context.

Mind you, I suppose he could wheel out a book about mindset, dedication, how his game evolved, coming up as a young Samoan boy in cricket in CD (I guess that's in there) and other things related to cricket (his opinion on Test cricket v T20 etc) and it would only sell 10 copies, nine of those to Flem and one to the Masterton library.
 
Flem274*

Flem274*

123/5
SteveNZ said:
coming up as a young Samoan boy in cricket in CD (I guess that's in there)
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It is.

It's pretty good tbh (I'm halfway). I don't normally buy sports books anymore though because they're usually bland future career protecting fence sitters.

The media are focusing on the captaincy spice and tbh you can't write a book on Taylor's career and not include it, especially after Declared. In his position I'd want my version out there too after the way McCullum presents him.
 
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