Spanky wants his cake and eat it too:
Today's decisions to determine cricket's state of flux
No nation can afford the losses suffered by Australian cricket this summer. The list is long, and includes fast bowlers, spinners and batsmen. When Arjuna Ranatunga - among the bravest of cricketers and nowadays fighting the tyrants loose in his country - asked for a runner at the SCG his hosts cussed and whined and objected. Now locals have needed runners in successive matches.
Ian Healy's "You don't get a runner for being an overweight, unfit, fat c**t!" is a sledge and hardly "cussed and whined and objected".
The Australians needed runners for injury, not being unfit, which is precisely the point Spanky himself repeatedly made in the ABC commentary booth on Wednesday night and again in The Age the next day after Joost Van Der Trott was granted a runner when he had a cramp:
What a chase … but the plot was predictable
In every respect Clarke has grown in stature in the past few weeks. Nor did he back down from a fight, twice arguing with his counterpart, the topics ranging from giving a runner to a batsman suffering from cramps to announcing the powerplay. Captains are not obliged to have degrees in diplomacy.
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