Sporting Pictures Schadenfreude Special
0The cricketing world has been dominated this week by the events in South Africa, and the subsequent crumbling of the Australian cricket team. There is nothing as globally unifying as watching the Australian cricket team squirm. The Press Conference where it all began, and that What have I done? Stare.
Here are two ex-skippers at the end of the test. Border was always known as Captain Grumpy, but that stare could freeze the Nullarbor.
At least Our Davey had the humour to autograph some sandpaper on the boundary.
Dymocks book store in Brisbane was quick to categorise the Steve Smith autobiography.
Times like this are always gold for sub-editors, and they don’t muck around in Australia; especially in the Northern Territory. It looks like something’s going on in The Batchelor too.
They don’t muck around in the UK either.
Mest Last Just Nu indeed. Seen in the cricketing hotbed of Malmo, Sweden.
But, in the saddest picture of them all, at least Trevor Chappell can find some solace.