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Ed Cowan Interview
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flibbertyjibber
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Was he surprised Australia got caught ball tampering and is it going on all the time among all the teams but the Aussies got careless and were caught?
a massive zebra
International Captain
Has he ever been paintballing?
Does he think he was given a fair run in the Australian side?
What does he think of Bashar al-Assad?
Has he ever been on a safari?
What were his main strengths and weaknesses as a batsman?
What is his favourite book?
What are his plans for his post cricket career?
Has he ever heard of Perkin Warbeck?
What is his favourite holiday destination?
What is his favourite cricket ground in the world?
What is his favourite vegetable?
Does he play any instruments?
The cricket authorities often tinker with fielding regulations, number of overs in a match, new ball regulations etc. Yet in modern times they never experiment with the number of players in a side, number of balls in a match or the size of the wickets. Why is this?
If he had never made it as a cricketer, what would he have done for a living?
Is Australia a good country to be born in?
Of all the creatures native to Australia, what is his favourite?
Which attribute is most important in a cricketer: natural ability, hard work or mental toughness?
Does he think he was given a fair run in the Australian side?
What does he think of Bashar al-Assad?
Has he ever been on a safari?
What were his main strengths and weaknesses as a batsman?
What is his favourite book?
What are his plans for his post cricket career?
Has he ever heard of Perkin Warbeck?
What is his favourite holiday destination?
What is his favourite cricket ground in the world?
What is his favourite vegetable?
Does he play any instruments?
The cricket authorities often tinker with fielding regulations, number of overs in a match, new ball regulations etc. Yet in modern times they never experiment with the number of players in a side, number of balls in a match or the size of the wickets. Why is this?
If he had never made it as a cricketer, what would he have done for a living?
Is Australia a good country to be born in?
Of all the creatures native to Australia, what is his favourite?
Which attribute is most important in a cricketer: natural ability, hard work or mental toughness?
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Quite a range there.
Gnske
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Was he comfortable with the culture within the Australian setup during his tenure?
Does he think CA factoring in 'public dissatisfaction' when handing out their ball tampering punishments was a good precedent to set or a dogshit one?
How does he feel regarding the amount of importance given to people who play cricket by the media and public. Is it justifiable that a person with a particular job/career should be subject to the most public and vicious of scrutiny of their professional and personal lives?
Is accepting the scrutiny and public eye when you are of international/first class quality just a thing you must accept practically? Is it particularly right that in accepting that volume of attention that a cricketer (or human being as I call them) must deliver a version of themselves to the public that is likely not totally consistent with who they truly are? Or is this the most ignorant question ever?
Are cricketers 'role models' as is often touted for people in wider society outside the cricketing niche? Why or why not?
Does he think the Dukes ball should be used on a more complete and permanent basis in the Sheffield Shield?
In regards to the previous question, does he see particular benefits to using the Kookaburra over the former?
Are we looking through rose-tinted glasses when we perceive a greater wealth of quality batsmen in the Australian system last decade for example? Or is the talent/skills depletion of Australian batsmen real? If this is true, how are the skills of FC batting being diluted? Is T20 really all to blame like we so often hear?
On writing, would he like to see more cricketers, particularly domestic players engaged about writing about their experiences for publication in the midst of their careers like 'In the Firing Line?'
Does he think the Test championship is going to do anything beneficial for test cricket? How does he feel about the current ICC regime's policies and treatment towards the longer format?
Would anything ever surpass the AFL gazetting a proper Tasmanian side?
Does he feel the end to his international career was rather abrupt? Given he batted more than acceptably for an overseas opener in India and just happened to be sick at the most inconvenient time for that first Ashes test?
Does he think CA factoring in 'public dissatisfaction' when handing out their ball tampering punishments was a good precedent to set or a dogshit one?
How does he feel regarding the amount of importance given to people who play cricket by the media and public. Is it justifiable that a person with a particular job/career should be subject to the most public and vicious of scrutiny of their professional and personal lives?
Is accepting the scrutiny and public eye when you are of international/first class quality just a thing you must accept practically? Is it particularly right that in accepting that volume of attention that a cricketer (or human being as I call them) must deliver a version of themselves to the public that is likely not totally consistent with who they truly are? Or is this the most ignorant question ever?
Are cricketers 'role models' as is often touted for people in wider society outside the cricketing niche? Why or why not?
Does he think the Dukes ball should be used on a more complete and permanent basis in the Sheffield Shield?
In regards to the previous question, does he see particular benefits to using the Kookaburra over the former?
Are we looking through rose-tinted glasses when we perceive a greater wealth of quality batsmen in the Australian system last decade for example? Or is the talent/skills depletion of Australian batsmen real? If this is true, how are the skills of FC batting being diluted? Is T20 really all to blame like we so often hear?
On writing, would he like to see more cricketers, particularly domestic players engaged about writing about their experiences for publication in the midst of their careers like 'In the Firing Line?'
Does he think the Test championship is going to do anything beneficial for test cricket? How does he feel about the current ICC regime's policies and treatment towards the longer format?
Would anything ever surpass the AFL gazetting a proper Tasmanian side?
Does he feel the end to his international career was rather abrupt? Given he batted more than acceptably for an overseas opener in India and just happened to be sick at the most inconvenient time for that first Ashes test?
Agricultural
Banned
1. What was your career goal? Did you set out to represent Australia from ball one in FC cricket (from your debut for Oxford Marylebone Cricket Club University vs Middlesex CC)? Or did your mindset change half way through your career? Small goals (becoming a regular List A player for a "proper" pro side, regular FC player and so on. Or were you always genuinely pushing to represent Australia?)
2. Curveball. You have never taken a FC wicket. Why? Is this due to an injury that means you can't bowl? Did you never bowl as a child (garden cricket, nets, park cricket etc)? You bowl leg spin according to your cricinfo profile (seen you bat, but not bowl), so that interests me. Did you bowl slow loopy leg spin in youth cricket (which has no carry over to adult cricket, hence no wickets as a pro player)? What are the variables here? How would you fair as a bowler in club cricket of a relatively decent standard? Do you hate or enjoy bowling? How much net bowling did you do during your career? What was the estimate split in training during your career between batting, bowling and fielding?
3. When you played test cricket what was your mentality? Survival? Ball by ball? Scoring runs? Positive intent? Intent to survive? What was it? Playing out the textbook, or by pure instinct? Head or heart? Etc.
4. Do you feel enough importance is put on fielding when selecting teams in professional cricket? Is enough weight put in favour of a high quality fielder vs a low quality fielder when they can both bat to a similar standard?
Thrown come stuff out there for you Burgey. I'm aware it's technically more than four questions. It's more like three trains of thought (and hopefully my style of questioning makes things more interesting for Ed). If any of these get answered then good stuff.
2. Curveball. You have never taken a FC wicket. Why? Is this due to an injury that means you can't bowl? Did you never bowl as a child (garden cricket, nets, park cricket etc)? You bowl leg spin according to your cricinfo profile (seen you bat, but not bowl), so that interests me. Did you bowl slow loopy leg spin in youth cricket (which has no carry over to adult cricket, hence no wickets as a pro player)? What are the variables here? How would you fair as a bowler in club cricket of a relatively decent standard? Do you hate or enjoy bowling? How much net bowling did you do during your career? What was the estimate split in training during your career between batting, bowling and fielding?
3. When you played test cricket what was your mentality? Survival? Ball by ball? Scoring runs? Positive intent? Intent to survive? What was it? Playing out the textbook, or by pure instinct? Head or heart? Etc.
4. Do you feel enough importance is put on fielding when selecting teams in professional cricket? Is enough weight put in favour of a high quality fielder vs a low quality fielder when they can both bat to a similar standard?
Thrown come stuff out there for you Burgey. I'm aware it's technically more than four questions. It's more like three trains of thought (and hopefully my style of questioning makes things more interesting for Ed). If any of these get answered then good stuff.
stephen
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How do you feel knowing that part of the selection criteria is getting past 30 regularly?
Do you feel like you could have been in the frame for a call up if you hadn't retired?
quincywagstaff
International Debutant
How did he rate Mickey Arthur as a coach and were Cricket Australia justified in sacking him in 2013?
Starfighter
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His opinion of the selection criteria that Langer has presented, i.e. hundreds without respect to format or batting position, thirties etc.
Whether Maxwell was effectively set up to fail with him being told not to play for a county and not being being picked in the A side.
Whether Hohns has a terrible bias towards players from his home state and is not fit to be a selector (the answer is yes).
Whether Maxwell was effectively set up to fail with him being told not to play for a county and not being being picked in the A side.
Whether Hohns has a terrible bias towards players from his home state and is not fit to be a selector (the answer is yes).
Good questions.
I'd be more interested in an answer to the first one than every other question in the thread put together- he just seems so different to the average AUS cricketer.
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What did it feel like being at the other end, watching the greatest 9 of all time?