Mighty ton deepens the Shane Watson enigma by: Gideon Haigh From: The Australian August 22, 2013 4:33AM Increase Text Size Decrease Text Size Print AUSTRALIAN cricket fans are on the hunt for what David Warners brother calls escape goats, and sooner or later theyre going to have to stop kvetching about Stuart Broad - their coach Darren Lehmann included. That being so, Shane Watsons mighty 176 at the Oval could hardly have come at a better moment. He presents the disenchanted with an inviting target: he bats, he bowls, he broods; he carries himself like Marvin the Paranoid Android making a cameo appearance in Baywatch. When Michael Clarke agreed during his pre-match press conference that maybe some toughness had been lacking in Australias cricket this summer, it had an echo of the judgment that Watson was sometimes a team player emitted by a Cricket Australia official six months ago
Posted on: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 02:22:38 +0000
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