Whinging Kiwi

Crowe says Bracewell should resign

Woke up to find another Crowe critique on cricinfo. I don't like him for his controversial and more significantly, unjustified comments. He is another rent-a-rant. The louder you shout, the more the media will pick up on it kind.

His speech last year at the Spirit of Cricket gig annoyed me the most. Particularly how he underhandedly picked out Muralitharan for criticism, (given that notable commentators / bowlers of the ilk of Holding and Angus Fraser have been satisfied that Murali's action is legitimate - how can Crowe imply it is not without being exposed to the same evidence shown to them). At least have the guts to name him. Then he went on to suggest teams like Bangladesh will never improve. It's fair to say they were granted test status ahead of schedule, but to play fortune-teller and say they will never be a force to be reckoned with flies in the face of dedication to set up a cricketing structure and oodles more support for cricket in Bangladesh than New Zealand (has anyone seen the sporadic attendance at a test match in NZ?).

Anyway moving to the present day, he rants at Shane Bond for having a fish curry before a key ODI? what if New Zealand had beaten Australia? that would have meant they could've beaten Sri Lanka yesterday? Let's not forget this is a New Zealand team which had performed creditably in beating every other team bar Australia and Sri Lanka (pre tournament favourites in many people's books). Let's not forget this is a New Zealand side which had already been comfortably beaten by Sri Lanka once already in the competition. Anyway, Martin, you have your headline. Enjoy the limelight.


Anyway I end this piece on a light hearted note: Cricket Max - LOL