what are former players up to these days?

[PhoenixFire]

Love how the moderator has "filtered" Matt's post, but forgot to change in the quote in his post above.

Yes, hilarious, isn't it?

 

[Uppercut]

MacGill is ****ing gin.

Ambrose and Richie were hilariois in an Aussie goes Calypo - Curtley looked so awkward playing base, and had grown a mullet!! They were playing a gig for an Aussie tour group, looked a triffle sad actually, would have been disillusioned more than anything to meet a personal hero like Curtley in that circumstance. Wouldn't have said anyithng beucase the bastard is still scary, but I love the dude and it had a sad vibe ot it.

Haha, he says he never ever watches cricket these days and has no interest in the sport anymore, so that might just have been a good call.

 

[Richard]

Ambrose is a funny chap. Apparently even during his career he hardly ever enjoyed watching the sport at all. He played, then he disappeared.

It truly astounds me that he could bowl with such passion and astonishing skill while, it seems, being so hugely indifferent to the game.

 

[Mard]

^ yeah i saw one of the interview where he said that. I think he was just playing for the money.

 

[Rant0r]

Tell me the Stephen Fleming Fujitsu ads are about as dire as the Mark Taylor Fujitsu ads?

was thinking the same thing, must be a worldwide thing.

 

[Rant0r]

He's part of Big Bad dread and bald head band alongwith Curtly Ambrose

gold

 

[Rant0r]

spose ivan lendl hated tennis and yet was so bloody good at it

 

[Rant0r]

i'm sure stuart macgill is gay

 

[Precambrian]

Yes, hilarious, isn't it?

In goood spirits maaan.

 

[Precambrian]

^ yeah i saw one of the interview where he said that. I think he was just playing for the money.

Sometimes such stuff brings out the best in people. We call it "Nishkama karma" in Hinduism. "Perform duty without attachment".

 

[Langeveldt]

This wine is balled!

 

[pskov]

Ambrose is a funny chap. Apparently even during his career he hardly ever enjoyed watching the sport at all. He played, then he disappeared.

It truly astounds me that he could bowl with such passion and astonishing skill while, it seems, being so hugely indifferent to the game.

Not the first or the last no doubt. I'm sure I read somewhere that Harmison said his debut was the first time he'd ever watched test match cricket?

Just because you have an uncanny aptitude to perform something to a high level doesn't necessarily mean you enjoy doing it. I expect a quite small but still significant portion of sportsmen find their jobs just as dreary as most 'normal' people.

 

[Richard]

Maybe. The thing is, sport is so much more than just a job. Completely incomparable to any other line of work in so many ways.

 

[NUFAN]

True, however If I took out the hours I watched International Cricket or thought about it and practiced/developed my game during that time, I'd perhaps have done something of some note, I reckon a fair few people on here would feel the same.

 

[Richard]

I don't doubt that I'd be better than I have been so far (and still hope at some point to be) though I'd clearly be nowhere near any standard of much note.

 

[BoyBrumby]

WG Grace is still dead, I believe.

 

[Richard]

So are Jeff Stollmeyer and Alan Kippax.