July 14, 2015

This is a funny and well-written piece on Australian Test Cricketer Shane Watson, a "galloping fridge"

The thinking around how to play Watson has been some of the knottiest, most complex intellectual work produced in Australia this century. [burn!]

In sympathy with these sudden, jolting shifts across the spectrum of play, Watson's management of his own body has been, perhaps inevitably, similarly confused: bulky one day, lissom the next, he's never hit on the best strategy to tune his frame this fragile tuba to its optimal pitch. It's almost as if the man, having tested seemingly every position in the batting lineup and experimented with wildly divergent styles of bowling and muscular conditioning, has ended up estranged from himself. He's become a stranger to his own physique.

In the process, he's also become a stranger to the Australian dressing room.

posted by rumple at 01:40 PM on July 14, 2015

My favourite recent piece on Shane Watson.

posted by Mr Bismarck at 02:07 PM on July 14, 2015