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malaise

(296,252 posts)
8. He did play cricket
Sun Dec 29, 2013, 07:00 PM
Dec 2013

and has always loved hanging around cricket greats.

This episode began when Morgan attacked the English team and questioned their courage against the OZ bowlers. England was already down 0-3 by then.
This 'assault' is huge news in the cricket world. Men have declared that 'it's not ccricket' in the truest sense of that phrase.
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http://www.iol.co.za/sport/cricket/world/brutal-assault-on-piers-morgan-condemned-1.1627158#.UsCozrTy31U
Wellington - “Incensed” New Zealand cricket great Richard Hadlee claims TV host Piers Morgan could have been killed by Brett Lee in an exhibition over and he wants the former Australian speedster punished.

During Saturday's tea break in the England-Australia Ashes Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Lee left Morgan battered and bruised as he pounded the Englishman with an over of short-pitched deliveries.

“As a former fast bowler I was appalled and outraged at what I witnessed,” Hadlee said in a column written for Fairfax News.

The exhibition was organised after Lee challenged Morgan to face an over when the television interviewer questioned the courage of some England batsmen.

“Lee's brutal assault on Morgan was extremely dangerous and unnecessary. It was clear that Morgan could not bat or defend himself against Lee's pace and intimidation,” Hadlee said.

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