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MacGill has only himself to blame

Posted on 11/26/2007 in Australian cricket

The belting Stuart MacGill has taken from the media during the past week has not been helped by MacGill’s own attitude over the years, according to Robert Craddock in the Courier-Mail.

It's a cliche but sportsmen ignore it at their peril - show respect for people on your way to the top, or the same people might just elbow you in the breadbasket once you fall to your knees. MacGill never showed much of that respect and consequently people are queuing up to question his future as a Test bowler after his modest performances when hampered by injuries in two Tests against Sri Lanka.

In the same paper Craddock looks at Shane Watson’s progress – he has just started to bowl as he continues to recover from repeated hamstring injuries.

In the Australian, Michael Clarke chats to Peter Lalor chats about his development in the Australian team and about his possible future role as Ricky Ponting’s successor.

Nick Walshaw, writing in the Daily Telegraph, sets out to discover if Brett Lee still has the killer instinct he displayed in 2003, when he bowled “dangerously fast” and “sadistically short” to a group of journalists enlisted to face him in a promotional net session.

 
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