Comments on: Respect the baggy green

By: dan

dan — Wed, 21 May 2008 03:45:35 +0000

This is a storm in a tea cup. It was a team decision, it was a warm up match against the Jamaica IX and not the opening of the series as you state.

It was actually done to preserve the tradition of the baggy green that Steve Waugh started: players only get their baggy green on the morning of their first official test match. Brad Haddin hadn’t played yet.

By: Andrew Jamieson

Andrew Jamieson — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:27:42 +0000

That was an extraordinarily stupid decision by the team management. Sends entirely the wrong message.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:55:31 +0000

I love my sport. Played basketball for 30 years but also had a go at aussie rules, squash, tabletennis, volleyball and, of course, cricket too. I’v never made it to the top in any of them but I still trudge along.

But I would be absolutely devasted when it came to my turn to represent Australia. To live that dream of all dreams and reach the pinnacle of sport, only to get handed a worthless blue sunshade instead of the real thing, the “baggy green” that spells out champions like Sir Donald Bradman, Dennis Lillee, Adam Gilchrist, Alan Border … and the list goes on and on and on. Say no more!