OK – I may not have a great memory,but I don’t remembercricketers always being a bunch of old crocks. Angus Fraser (champion) used to plug away for years without injury. Alright, that may not be entirely true, but in my unfounded opinion, cricketers are receiving more injuries. There are two schools of thought explaining this development:
1. Geoff Boycottism (They’re all a bunch of girls). This thesis asserts that modern cricketers have become increasingly fragile because of universal use of “shoes” and banning corporal punishment in schools.
2. They’re over-worked. This re-iterates the usual complaint that cricketers play too much cricket.
The reality is probably a mixture of the two. Or probably not. Anyway, here is a list of international players that are either injured or have an injury “scare”.
- Mathew Hayden
- Michael Vaughan
- Herschelle Gibbs
- Justin Kemp
- Jacob Oram
- Andrew Symonds
- Abdul Razzaq
- Brett Lee
- Simon Jones
- Shoaib Akhtar
- Mohammad Asif
I decided to stop at eleven. But it’s enough for a whole team – a pretty good team, now that I look at it. It seems that at any point 5% of the world’s cricketing talent has some sort of injury.
It’s worth noting that none of the above crocks is a spinner. Look at the above picture. Anil Kumble continuing to win matches, despite the major head trauma. What does that tell you about spinners?
3 comments:
Gibbs is injured? Didn't know that.
Where is that picture of Kumble from? He looks like a maniac...that's pretty cool though
Gibbs' injury was a "scare", so I lied. Sorry.
The picture was from the internet...
No it isn't a pretty good team. It hasn't got a wicket-keeper.
Must have been selected by P. Moores, esq.
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