Shaun Tait quits cricket

[howardj]

This type of tripe is just as silly as Boycott's waffle.

I mean, Hussey is arguably using the situation and Tait's mental illness to try and garner a 'poor old international cricketer' sympathy vote. When, in actual fact, it's not really the stresses of international cricket that's driven Tait to this point, but rather his unique phychological problems.

 

[Richard]

Think Boycott would at least have done well to mention his previous comments relating to himself and Trescothick, so as to offer some sort of clarification on why the situations aren't comparable (as he obviously thinks they're not).

 

[Engle]

Dont see Hussey's article as tripe, in fact a very candid admission of the trials and tribulations of a Test cricketer. Test cricket does demand a lot mentally, in fact I'd say more so than many other sports. And to play for a top notch team intensifies the burden of expectation.
Sportsmanship requires some degree of decency in cases like this and Boycs should know better.

 

[sideshowtim]

http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/341394.html

Good news

 

[Richard]

Possibly the briefest retirement on record?

Either way, good to see the problems - hopefully - haven't lasted long.

 

[four_or_six]

Touring the WI though? Surely there's no way?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Show of hands, who saw this coming?

Everybody? Right, thought so.

 

[NZTailender]

Hussey, gun batsman, awful writer. Starts a paragraph for every sentence.

 

[four_or_six]

Show of hands, who saw this coming?

Everybody? Right, thought so.

Did you? I assumed he'd be out for much longer than this... given he pulled out half way through a series.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Said to pretty much everyone I ran into between then and now that he'd be back for the next state season.

 

[Richard]

[Marc mode]Funny you never mentioned it until now then [/Marc mode]

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Probably because I only know one person on CW in RL.

 

[slowfinger]

oh crap thats sad, a very young sorta shoaib akhtar.
he had such a future

 

[Richard]

A little behind the times, my dear fellow, methinks.

 

[cover drive man]

oh crap thats sad, a very young sorta shoaib akhtar.
he had such a future

haha.

 

[howardj]

Show of hands, who saw this coming?

Everybody? Right, thought so.

*Raises hand*

It clearly, to my mind and without knowing the guy, was always a case of the sooky sooky la las over his Test Match performance, rather than some deap seated case of depression or mental exhaustion. He was, after all, the guy who said after his stellar WC performance that, when he got home, he felt like flying back over and re-living it all again. I mean, there's nothing wrong with getting the sooks, but let's recognise it as such - and not be afraid to say it at the time.

 

[Smudge]

Soft it is, then.

 

[Jono]

Wow that was quick. Why didn't he just privately make himself unavailable, and go back and get himself right? There was no real need for all the media attention, particularly since he may be back in under 12 months.

 

[Richard]

Does seem a bit melodramatic to use the term "retire". One question though: did he himself ever actually do it? I haven't read all his words on the matter, but the one statement I've heard never mentioned it once. Just "I need a break, need to get away". The discussion earlier this thread almost all centred around "hope he's back soon", which suggests most people knew there was nothing absolute about it at all.

 

[howardj]

No, he never retired as such. He just went on a break, without giving any iron clad guarantee of returning to the game.