Re: God help me - the Test Cricket thread
Reply #156 –
Stupid ? Probably. Cheating? Most definitely not. Smith comes across as being a little bit OCD, very quirky. He'd be the type of bloke who walks around the house playing cricket shots (Air batting). I think his explanation was fair enough if you ask me. Media beat up yet again. As they said on SEN this morning, Paine's apology was a joke, basically apologising to the Twitter minority. FFS he called a bloke two feet away from him a DH. No racial slurs, no taboo topics like wives, kids, family etc. The country is stuffed I tell ya. Pandering to nuffies.
But there's no need for it G2C. Paine would have been better off concentrating on wicketkeeping, setting better fields, making better use of his bowlers and figuring out how to use the DRS.
He came across as more of a d1ckhead than Ashwin. If you're going to sledge, you need to be on top of your game and do it with a bit of humour.