Rivalry with Indians will persist in IPL: Symonds
Posted on Apr 20, 2008 at 20:50 | Updated Apr 21, 2008 at 12:51
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Gaurav Kalra: There was a survey done in Australia and a lot of that we were reading here as well. And almost 50 per cent of Australia's national contracted players - first class and the national would be alright to give up their dream of playing for Australia if leagues such as the IPL or even ICL. What are your thoughts on that?
Andrew Symonds: It would be a shame if the Test cricket and the One-Dayers lost players at the end of their careers to come here and finish
their careers and add on money in these two competitions. That is why it is so important for the two cricketing bodies to come to an agreement and it is important that is done, otherwise the game will suffer.
Gaurav Kalra: What do you make of all these? Is there a lesson in the way the game is administered because you spent a lot of time in England and you must have seen how football is in England or how domestic cricket is in England. You barely get any spectators for county cricket and things like that kind. So you think the administrators should look at domestic leagues of this kind and develop cricket in that way?
Andrew Symonds: Ya possibly. It is a good way of attracting new people and people back to cricket. All the powerful minds of world cricket should
sit together and got to start working at ways to get people to back and excite people to watching the game.
Gaurav Kalra: One of the things that we like doing here in India is build up the rivalries - usually it is Glenn McGrath vs Sachin Tendulkar or
Shane Warne vs VVS Laxman. Now, there can be some new ones - Andrew Symonds vs Ricky Ponting or Mike Hussey for instance. How is it going to be like to go up against all of your teammates?
Andrew Symonds: Sometimes it becomes difficult because you play so much with them that you sort of live your lives with them and it is sometimes a strange feeling to be playing against some of your best mates. It is sometimes like you are betraying them but then you are a professional, so you have to get your job done.
Gaurav Kalra: In fact, Matthew Hayden is one of your closest friends and you don't play against each other in the domestic crickets even, as you both play for the same team there as well. Suppose you bowl that ripping off-break, which is outside the leg and takes the top of off. Then how will you
celebrate against Matthew Hayden? Will you let him know it?
Andrew Symonds: If that happens that will be great. And I will got that on him forever. I will just remind him of that particular delivery.
Gaurav Kalra: You guys go out fishing a lot. So, that kind of a thing can happen on a fishing trip when you have a lot of time to talk.
Andrew Symonds: There is. There are plenty of times when we do that.
Gaurav Kalra: Couple of other things - were you nervous taking that flight up to India, were you nervous about the reception you would get. Did you think that you would get a hostile reception?
Andrew Symonds: I wasn't nervous. I was interested to see how is it going to be received. But everything ran very smoothly. I didn't know what to expect but I knew it won't be going to be too bad. But I was surprised to see people really happy to see me. It was a nice feeling.
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Posted By K S Kumar
Has Symmonds come to India on invitation?. The fellow wanted money and not for the love of sports. If the
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