Mosher Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 (edited) Jarrod is just brilliant. Hilarious article. Why is Josh Hazlewood staring at a rough patch of grass for minutes at a time? What does this grass do, say, or show? Maybe it's zen grass. Maybe I should stare at the grass. Or perhaps I should squat down between balls like Nathan Lyon and play with it. Aw look, yeah mate, reconnect with nature, life will be simpler then... Like before I had an agent and my mate's all texted me when they wanted free tickets. I give away tickets to watch me; I'd never thought about this before - does this make me a product, an actor, a living entertainment vessel? Oh, this is deep, this one's going to fester. Oh, a wicket, yeah! That's weird. Is this the first wicket ever taken in cricket? Should we shuffle in unathletically, mumble nothing more than "walla, walla, walla", stand in a circle for a while before moving back towards our positions of solitude? Yes, lets. Oh, that crazy guy - or figment of my own hyper-real Ultra HD imagination - Sir Ravindra Jadeja! He's doing a sword celebration for his fifty. I think I remember my grandfather telling me that in the old days Australian cricketers would stare at this sort of thing disapprovingly and make passive aggressive comments. I wish I lived in those times. My grandpa also warned that under the Indian sun Australian men watched Indians for days, and this brought about an apocalypse. But that's just a scary fairy tale meant to scare me straight. Mate, this is hell. The spinning, the foot marks. R Ashwin's teasing bombs and Jadeja's endless grenades. Argh, Virat Kohli's mouth. The whole thing. This isn't standing around on an overcast day wondering about the very existence of reality; this is the real thing. Ranchi rockets, bloodcurdling screams and things that go bump in the night. http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1087697.html Edited March 20, 2017 by Mosher express bowling and tweaker 2 Link to comment
sm332 Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 gifted writer with a keen eye and able to channel sensations really well Link to comment
CoverDrive Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 I believe Jarrod has changed the modern Cricket writing. You see many others trying to imitate his style trying to get into the thick of action and describing the passage of play. But he comes up with something like this and keeps setting the bar higher. Mosher 1 Link to comment
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