Cricket Australia's Centre of Excellence (COE), Adelaide, Austrailia.
23rd September, 2011, 1500 Hrs:
Fifteen men in dirty whites are seated in gray foldable-plastic chairs inside the large Tactical Operations Tent (TOT).
The men are clearly nervous, their worried murmur interspersed with false-ringing ‘mates’ and slightly manic sounding laughter.
On a large foldable table in front of the men are neatly arranged newspapers. The front pages carry large bold headlines the likes of, “WE ARE SHIT”, “SRI-LANKA BEAT NINNIES’, and ‘SRI-LANKA, IS THAT ENGLAND?’.
Four dark suit suits walk in, accompanied by a man in trainers.
One of the suits addresses the men, “Which one of you is the spinner?”
One of the men squeals out unprompted, “Shane Warne loves me, you all love me, I am Beer.”
All eyes slowly settle on Nathan Lyon, who has raised his hand with great trepidation.
The suit turns to the man in the trainers and says, “Take him out and shoot him, Tim”.
A gasping, terrified
The suit turns back to the men and begins “Now for the rest of you…”
Steve Waugh walks in, wheeling a strange looking device...
2 comments:
Avinash, good post, almost warrants two postings - oh, wait, you posted twice.
Yeah. Was kinda drunk...
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