To the surprise of no one, Roy is back

I am stupefied when it comes to articles welcoming cricketer Andrew Symonds back into the Australian team.  Was there any doubt that Symonds would return to the Australian team as soon as possible, especially after they came back from India?  A lot may have been said about Symonds’ bad behaviour in Darwin, but for me, it is an incredible coincidence that he was kicked off the team just before a tour to India.  This says more about Cricket Australia’s lack of balls than Symonds’ state of mind.  CA was scared about administrating a repeat of clashes between Symonds and Harbhajan, so the cricketer’s fishing trip was the perfect excuse to dump him and enjoy a controversy-free tour.  Of course, by dumping one of the team’s most experienced batsmen, CA seems to be more interested in avoiding controversy than winning the test series, but even Ricky Ponting is struggling with the concept of winning at the moment.  The kind of swashbuckling Andrew Symonds.  Photo from the Daily Telegraph.

Posted: 10:12 AM, 12/11/2008 in Australia Share on Facebook

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