You see, this is where the media really misrepresents what the person has said. The dishonesty is pretty shameful.
If you look only at the QUOTES, he is saying:
"If we can take early wickets, which I'm sure we can with the way we've been bowling, we might set a few nerves jangling and cause the likes of Australia and South Africa a few problems," Drinnen said.
"Teams are going out and giving it the gun really early in their innings and setting targets of 300. But you run the risk of losing early wickets".
"In the one-day game anything can happen and if we get it together we are going to be very dangerous even against Australia. We have a game plan and hopefully we can stick to it".
"We don't fear anyone at this World Cup - the last month's fixtures in one-day cricket all over the world have been interesting to say the least and we won't be losing any sleep over playing the world champions", he said."
All he's saying is that they could prove a handful for Australia. Nowhere does he "taunt" them or say Scotland are gonna beat Australia. He just did his job here, saying that they'll be competitive and come out fighting - that's what's expected of him, isn't it? What's he supposed to say, "Come Australia, we've got no hope, we're scared of you - 2 free points for you"?
All he said is that he can cause Aus a "few problems" how the dishonest journalist translated that into "Scotland ....can challenge and even beat the two-time defending champions when the teams meet in St Kitts on March 14" is beyond me.
Take these sports journalists with a grain of salt, please.
Then who's gonna be batting and bowling for Australia....
