Arthur Crabtree wrote:It was Cook who spent a summer saying 'something should be done' about commentators, Warne and Vaughan I remember. In interviews, directly after games. That seems like threatening language, seen in the light of allegations against Samuels. Yet the English press just wrote glossy pieces about how nice he is. Cook brought embarrassment on his team at that time. Manhandling Jayawardene on the pitch. Slating Morgan after the WC. His aloof and incoherent communications with the media. But it was his inability to be crticised that comes to mind after the press response to Samuels. And he was mostly supported anyway, certainly nothing like the Nicholas drivel.
It feels typical of the Pravda like cricket reporting in the UK, the way there has been so much press rehabillitating Stokes in the last week. The volume of it has been surprising. And little balance achieved between his on field behaviour, and the reaction of the West Indians to it.
Arthur Crabtree wrote:Pretty good example of how on message the cricket press has become in the UK. The Samuels incident makes it current again. The comparison with Cook is pretty valid given the particulars of the commentator they both criticise and the very different reactions to the criticism. It's still relevant, because it still goes on, as with the uniformity of the press rehab of Ben Stokes. I guess Giles Clarke would say we should all move on, but why- nothing's changed. I don't understand why my post isn't utterly valid.
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