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equatorIn his new book, i don’t know what it is called, Michael Vaughan writes about how Jonathan Trott celebrated with the South African team after they beat the English.
Actually he says that he saw Trott pat South African players on the back.
Up until ‘97 that was a hanging offence in England.
You would think with a top order made from mostly South Africans this sort of stuff wouldn’t have drifted away.
Vaughan goes on to say,
“I suppose you might wish Trott was a bit more English, but after such a brilliant debut it appeared we had found another high-quality batsman.”
The question vaughan doesn’t seem to ask is that if Trott was more English would have had looked so good on debut.
For all Vaughan knows Trott could have been just slapping some ex team mates on the back for their deserved win.
Would people question Ravi Bopara’s Englishness if after India won a match he patted some guys he knew from the IPL on the back.
Trott isn’t about to transfer back to South Africa.
He might not be fighting for his country, but like Nash, Elliott and others, he looks like he will fight like hell to stay in International cricket. There are blokes who are born in England who don’t seem to fight that hard, maybe they are commies?
Even the daily telegraph are not so sure about Trott, look at their Freudian slip when typing out Trott’s rebuttal.
“My commitment to England is 10o per cent. I’ve spent seven years working hard to be able to wear the Three Lions and in that time my allegiance has never wavered.”
Perhaps Douggie Bollinger can help Trott with his “Teno” percent commitment.
What Trott should be doing is going around and slagging off all the South African boys like KP did, that is how you show your true Britishness.
Of course Trott’s not going to go back to South Africa. He wouldn’t get in the team for a start.
what i don’t get is why do the poms crave such traits in a player when it appears that the essential ‘british’ or ‘english’ player seems to be the bell or cook type – techinically correct with the character of a tooth pick.
the english players i have seen in my lifetime are almost inevitably averagely talented, and have absolute zero personality. you can rattle off the examples – anderson, broad, bell etc etc…
the ones who actually look like being aggressive and gregarious like harmison and trescothik have massive mental problems.
flintoff is the only one who bucks the trend – other than that vaughn and england should probably wish for all the non-englishy types they can find.
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Karachikhatmal – ref your comment, “the english players I have seen in my lifetime……..”, presumably you’re still in short trousers?
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hahaha fair point sarah…
there are others too i remember from my short trouser days, like ealham and hollioake and mullaly and nick knight and hick and a host of compltely forgettable players.
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Trott may have Saffer mates and get quite chummy with them, but there’s no way he’d ever go back and play for South Africa – the Saffers prefer their cricketers to be good at cricket.
Usually.
We Aussies like ours to not injure themselves all the time, but you can’t have everything can you?
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I grant you that England have had a number of forgettable players but we’ve also had some bloody good ones who’ve had character in spades – Darren Gough & Beefy are two that instantly come to mind. Less enamoured with Botham as a commentator but he was an awesome player and inspired a whole generation of cricketers and cricket lovers.
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This is funny! Hilarious actually! There are people here defending English cricketers…..I mean really …that’s almost as deluded as the people from my land who think there is an express pace bowler in India somewhere! Face it….you’ve pretty much been pathetic for the best part of two decades…. Reality is harsh but then again you think Michael Vaughan is a good batsman…For people as deluded as that it might take a little while! An average of 41!! a no 3 batsman! In spite of playing in an era where dipshits like samaraweera avg 50! He’s come out against trott? I would say being un- english is probably better!
@Rohit
Samaraweera ain’t no dipshit. He took a bullet and still scored tons of runs in his next digs. Still I do get your point.
Trott makes an invaluable contribution in the last Ashes test and then gets shit upon by Vaughan who in my opinion was a very average batsman with a spectacular three four season right smack in between. Such a narrow mindset is never good.
Deluded, am I? How rude. Can’t be bothered arguing with you. And that isn’t because I couldn’t.
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“How rude.”
Bless you Sarah. That made me laugh.
Civility here on the balls… smirk, giggle, guffaw.
PS – Love your pics.
Last Laugh – Thanks! (twice!)
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