Showing posts with label Australians Squealstarians!. Show all posts
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

Australians Squealstarians!



Have we ever squealed?
jksw

Let us go back down memory lane.
1. Bradman legendary hero only grudgingly came out to bat at the Oval 1948/49 scoring 17 singles only! He hated this one day ‘ whistle stop’ match!

2. Long long later 1980 Australian school boys did a tour here scolding the shit off our own school boys- one vs Richmond College, that filth was honoured by them as ‘sledging’.

3. Till rotund Arjuna et al 1996, talking with no lip movementsbested them at their own game- Sledging! And the result? Wow! World Cup! That match was sure brains against brawn-

  4.  And in 1996 in Australia the same single ground had two prepared types of pitches- the green tops- fast- for tiny Asians to face and the very, very, barren slow ones when they faced the fearsome West Indies pacies.

5. And always a grumble- Murali was branded a chucker, even though he was willing to be tested with arm splinted! He was tested many times! He was near howled out, if not for tough Arjuna and team.
6. They took 20 years- long after he retired to sanitise him and at last begin to learn on slow pitches. And he is in the hall of fame only now 800 wickets!

7.Honourable mention to Shane Warne who stuck his neck out for Murali.
 8. And Sri Lankan expat doctors!

9.   And this time in Sri Lanka- squealers  commented  the SSC ground would not last 3 days! Well it lasted till the last- but they could not!

10. And today any sledging inn Sri Lanka ? What is sledging!!!
These guys are swallowing their own Adams apples instead.

11. Arjuna in 1996 told the Aussies   to fix microphones to stop sledging and they did not.And now for the pleasure of it;

Who popularized  smashing above the head, we.
Hitting sixes on the off side? We.
Hitting sixes with both feet a foot above the ground? We
Dilscoop? We
Hitting sixes over the head of the 2nd slip, we!
Spinners opening the bowling?
And that Bundle of tricks Murali and Herath, we.WE!
Cheers for a beer!
Susiri Weeraskera
Cut out and keep