Former cricketers criticise Australia new Players’ Pact

Dixit Bhargav | 31/10/2018
Former cricketers criticise Australia new Players' Pact

Former cricketers criticise Australia new Players’ Pact: The recent development in Australian cricket has not gone well with former players.

“We recognise how lucky we are to play this great game. We respect the game and its traditions. We want to make all Australians proud. Compete with us. Smile with us. Fight on with us. Dream with us.”

As part of the Ethics Review, the above mentioned recently released 38-word Cricket Australia’s new Players’ Pact seems to have not gone well with some of the former cricketers. Both cricketers from Australia and other countries have lent their views on the same.

Former Australia all-rounder Andrew Symonds called the whole pact a ‘panic tactic’. Speaking on Fox Sports’ Back Page, Symonds was quoted, “That to me appears as though it’s a panic tactic. The boys have said ‘you’ve got to come up with something, you’ve got to be seen to be making an effort.

“And it’s a bit corny, isn’t it? That’s not the Australian cricket way in my opinion. They could have come up with something a lot better than that, or as I said, they need to sit down and nut some of these things out.”

Micheal Vaughan lashes out

Former England captain Michael Vaughan took to social media platform Twitter to express his concerns. “The Aussie cultural review is cringeworthy … ‘Smile with us , Dream with us ‘ !!!!!! What a load of B ……… !! Just play good,hard,fair cricket & win a few games is all that’s required … !!”, he tweeted on the issue.

 

Former Australian Coach Darren Lehmann, who was yesterday slammed by Kevin Pietersen for carrying on like he did, had retweeted Vaughan’s tweet, which speaks about his own take on the pact. Former Australian selector Mark Waugh had also retweeted this tweet.

 

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Dixit Bhargav

Born and brought up in Pathankot, Dixit Bhargav is an engineering and sports management graduate who works as a Cricket Editor at The SportsRush. Having written more than 10,000 articles across more than five years at TSR, his first cricketing memory dates back to 2002 when former India captain Sourav Ganguly had waved his jersey at the historic Lord’s balcony. What followed for an 8-year-old was an instant adulation for both Ganguly and the sport. The optimist in him is waiting for the day when Punjab Kings will win their maiden Indian Premier League title. When not watching cricket, he is mostly found in a cinema hall watching a Punjabi movie.

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