Re: Willis' post match interview link?

Mike Holmans wrote:
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:00:21 -0400, Vig <vig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
tapped the keyboard and brought forth:

Mike Holmans wrote:

On this occasion, if on no other, Boring Bob's rudness to and about
the press may have had a little justification.
I am not familiar with the match itself,

God, you make me feel old.

I am not British and I wasn't born then :) The only mention I have heard of the match was as one of the greatest cricket comebacks of all time. Wasn't quite aware of the little events surrounding the match since I didn't live it (regrettably).

but looking at Willis's bowling in the second inning, there is little justification for the writer's waxing eloquent about Botham while giving Willis just a cursory mention.

This was Headingley 81. Botham's innings on the Monday was just about
miraculous and turned an absolutely cast-iron certain defeat into the
ghost of a chance of victory. Without it, Willis's effort would have
been pointless.

Those of us who insist on correcting people who call it Botham's Match
by saying "Rubbish, it was Willis's Match" have always been a small
band. Small, but I like to think discerning.

I guess it is parallel to Harbhajan's I2 effort in the Indian version of events.

Journalists are a hated lot, but to be successful as one, you ought to be able to dissociate personal feelings from the writing. All IMO.

The writer was Tom Graveney, who was a batsman by trade.

OK, now I am just not paying enough attention before saying stupid things :) Sorry about that. Yeah, I guess as a batsman, he can be forgiven for admiring Botham's inning more than Willis's effort.

P.S if Willis did say that, he was being a huge d*** since he should have realized just as well as anyone that the criticism for the first 3 days was well and truly justified. Just saying that it is ugly to see a journalist pay him back in the same coin.

Graveney wasn't really paying him back; that's the distinguished
ex-player and former captain saying, as you have just done, that it is
inadvisable for players to rant at the media like that.

Always is... since I have faith in the media as being objective in most scenarios and are just telling it as it is...(since journos who make it to the top usually are objective too)

Cheers!
--
Vig
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