Ricky Ponting has officially declared that the damage to the LCD TV was caused by pure accident. “I went into the dressing room and threw my Groin protector into my kit. GENTLY, Mind you!! It just bounced back up from the kit bag and hit the TV.” He also said he was frustrated at how the incident was being blown out-of-proportion by the media. “Everyone is concerned about the TV. But what about my groin protector. Who will replace that? Isn’t my groin more important to the cricketing world than a stupid TV!”, he mused.
Meanwhile, this incident has not gone down well with Ricky’s Australian teammates though. “It’s not the bloody TV we are concerned about, it’s the groin Protector. Ricky had been wearing that in the sweltering Indian heat for over an hour. What if it had bounced-off and fallen into one of our Beer Mugs. Yuck!!”, an Australian player commented on condition of anonymity.
But Ponting has found support from his vociferous fans. One die-hard fan quoted, “Ricky is a gentleman. He took his frustration out on his own Groin protector. It’s not like he took someone else’s protector and threw it on the TV.” Another fan came up with a financial analysis, “Ricky can buy them back 10 LCD TVs (with DTH connection) if he wants to just with 1 % of his match fee. Then why this fuss about one TV.”
This gem came from yet another fan of Ricky Ponting, “The frustration that Ponting showed on getting out symbolizes the fighting spirit of the Aussies. I want the Australian govt to declare the ‘Groin Protector’ as the new symbol of Aussie sportsmanship.”
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