Andrew Symonds has claimed innocence after reports about his brawl in a pub have appeared in the Australian media. In a statement given to DNA, the controversial Australian all-rounder claimed he did not provoke the situation and was not involved in any kind of altercation.Reports in the Aussie media have said that the Queenslander was involved in a physical altercation at a pub in Brisbane. One r
MICHAEL Clarke and Andrew Symonds patched up their frosty friendship at a cocktail party - with no cocktails. The split between the once great mates has been the talk of Australian cricket circles, but a ritzy cocktail party at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art helped them iron out their differences. The two shared iced waters as they chewed the fat in ending one of Aussie
Click HERE for the complete rankings (1-500+)According to the survey released this week, ATENEO ranked 254th, leaping from its 400th and 500th position in the previous two...
Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds who was sent home from a one-day series against Bangladesh in Darwin, has said that he was seeking professional h1 Vote(s)
Despite of his expulsion from the team due to missing important team meeting and practice session, Cricket Australia has decided that he will be paid, despite not being the member of current team.But that's not going to end all the trouble for Star all rounder Andrew Symonds, as the Chief executive of Cricket Australia James Sutherland said that he is not sure about Symonds future and can't confir
Cricketer of the Australian National side, Andrew Symonds, is now in a bit tight situation after being blamed for lack of commitment towards his team of late. Incidentally, the tall-lanky all-rounder of the Australian cricket Team had gone fishing last week leaving the practice-schedule of his team.And furthermore, the player will miss the ODI series against Bangladesh because he went straight to
After the sad expulsion of Andrew Symonds from the current Australia- Bangladesh cricket series due to indiscipline, Australia convincingly thrashed the protease by 180 runs.Australia wrap up the second Inning in 27.4 over and the poor Bangladesh could only make 74 runs. This was Bangladesh's lowest score in the one day international matches, earlier it was against India,where they were knocked ou
A naked man ran toward Symonds at the non-striker's end as he attempted to escape police and ground staff at the match against India....Symonds Hit him hard and Knocked down using his big shoulder...watch the funny video and photos of incident....
Today Australia might have lost the one day series against India, but found a new number 8 for the Wallabies. Here's the video of Roy laying out a streaker at the GABBA. I love how it seems to be just part of the usual gardening the pitch routine....
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Australia's Andrew Symonds turned from all-rounder to security heavy as he decked a streaker during the second one-day final against India in Brisbane.Symonds was at the crease as the man ran onto the pitch. But as the streaker attempted to evade chasing police he instead took a shoulder barge from Symonds at the non-striker's end.Symonds stood his ground and leaned into the streaker in a rugby-style hit, dropping him instantly to the ground in the 10th over of Australia's reply.The streaker was escorted from the field by police. He faces a fine up to 3,000 Australian dollars for the pitch invasion and is expected to be charged with willful exposure by Queensland state police.
Controversial Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds face a serious punishment from the International Cricket Council for man-handling a streaker during the second finals of the tri-series against...
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(If you still don't know what happened with Symond, watch the youtube Video at the end of the post)After returning to Australia, both the Ausie captain Ricky Ponting and Right Hand Batsmen Andrew Symonds who is the only black player in the Australian team issued a warning to the Aussie fans not to mis-treat the Indian players when they toured Australia later this year.“Am I against crowd participation? Definitely not, but there is a message I would like to give the Australian public and supporters of our team.” “I don’t want to see ugly chanting at the Indian players when they come to Australia later in the year,” Symonds wrote in his column yesterday that is Sunday for the Daily Telegraph. While Ponting said this: "I'd like to see the Australian fans and public treat the Indian team the same way they would any other team," "I don't think they should be treated any differently because of what's happened over there," he said which means that the fans should go ahead
ANDREW Symonds' controversial tour of India has come to an end but not before fans singled him out one last time for some harsh treatment. The all rounder was again targetted by spectators in Saturday night's Twenty20 clash against India at Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium but this time there weren't any reports of racial abuse. He was heavily booed any time he was involved in the game and will be looking forward to arriving back in Australia. Symonds has been caught in the middle of a media storm in the subcontinent after repeated racial taunts were directed at him by fans in Vadodara and Mumbai in the space of six days. The tour should have been memorable for Symonds, having been named man of the limited-overs series for his 365 runs at 73 at better than a run a ball. However his performances have been overshadowed by his fiery exchanges with Indian quick Shantha Sreesanth and the monkey noises directed at him by spectators. Australian captain Ricky Ponting felt the hostile crowd h
The scenes worsened and crowd behaviour became torrid, in the only T20 match of the India-Australia series. The Aussies were welcomed with "Aussy sucks" chants and everytime the ball went to Symonds or when he came on to bat, the crowd was Booing, apparently nothing racist was said but still made fans like me really feel terribly bad at our hospitality. Mumbai has seriously lost a plot in terms of hospitality, compared to places like Chennai where even Pakistan and Australia got standing ovation for their cricket. This has worsened the media image of Mumbai and Indian crowd as a whole.India won the match comfortably with Gambhir laying a strong foundation. Earlier Harbhajan was impeccable and conceded only 17 runs and took a wicket from 4 overs.Gambhir 63(52)Ponting 74(53)
Andrew Symonds must be wondering that he was never in talk before this much because of cricket. The incident which was happened in Nagpur and was treated as "racism" which almost every Hindi and...
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MELBOURNE, October 17: After Vadodara and Nagpur, Andrew Symonds was racially abused in Mumbai too during Australia's final cricket One- dayer against India on Wednesday, claimed the local media here.The Australian claimed that as Symonds walked out to bat, a hostile part of the crowd at the Wankhede Stadium greeted the towering all-rounder with cat calls and "distinct monkey calls". An Australian photographer took snaps of the hostile crowd, it said.The daily also claimed that the abuse unsettled Symonds so much that the batsman, who has been in tremendous form in the series, fell to Murali Kartik for a first ball duck."The International Cricket Council's anti-racism code was instantly flashed on the screen, but Symonds seemed unsettled and was dismissed first ball," it said.And while he was walking back to the pavilion, Symonds was greeted with another round of abuse, it claimed.The newspaper also took a dig at BCCI Chief Administrative Officer Ratnakar Shetty, who doubles up as th
PROFILEAndrew Symonds brings gusto to whatever he does, whether firing down offbreaks or mediums, hurling his ungainly bulk round the field or vigorously ruffling the bowler's hair at the celebration of a wicket. He saves his loudest grunt for his batting, where he is that rarest of modern-day creatures - an unabashed six-hitter in the mould of a George Bonnor or a Colin Milburn or a David Hookes. Batting for Gloucestershire at 20, he scythed 16 sixes in the first dig [a world record] against Glamorgan at Abergavenny, 20 for the match [another first], and then announced he couldn't care less about the milestone; he wanted only to help his team. He has been matter-of-factly demolishing attacks ever since. His flaw has been to attempt one six too many - invariably off the wrong ball."I used to hate watching him bat," his old coach Toot Byron once lamented. "He wasn't in control of his shot-selection ... he'd get 24 off an over and then go out on the last ball of that over." Legend h
Politics are all the rage in F1 at the moment - just check out the response to our latest Talking Point - but perhaps the most important discussion of all is one that is happening in the background: the collaborative process between the teams and the FIA as they construct a roadmap for the future of the sport, which is likely to result in major regulation changes for the sport between 2009 and 2012.On 18 September 2006, following a meeting between the FIA, the teams, the manufacturers and the more…
Renault’s engineering director Pat Symonds has defended the team’s decision to put Heikki Kovalainen on intermediate tyres on a dry track in the closing stages of the European Grand Prix. Renault’s weather forecasts suggested rain was imminent, but before it materialised Kovalainen had to nurse his inters on a bone-dry surface for several laps. The move looked like a low-percentage gamble given that Kovalainen was running fifth at the time – but in fact the Finn would have had to pit more…
ANDREW Symonds has implored Australian crowds to celebrate the feats of Sri Lankan spin wizard Muttiah Muralitharan if he eclipses Shane Warne's world record this summer. The controversial tweaker has regularly been tormented by local fans, having been called for throwing during two separate tours of Australia during the 1990s. The Kandy man is poised to topple Warne as the highest Test wicket-taker this November on Australian soil, needing just eight more scalps to equal the legspinner's 708 victims. But Symonds said Muralitharan deserved to be shown respect if he achieved the milestone in either Brisbane (Nov 8-12) or in Hobart (Nov 16-20) later this year. "Definitely it would be embarrassing for us as a team if they didn't," Symonds said. "We respect him for his skills and for what he has done and I think it would be rude, straight out rude, if they didn't sort of respect him and give him the pat on the back he deserves." Australian spectators have regularly
Symonds Yat - blue, green and gold12" x 18", Coloured Pencilcopyright Katherine TyrrellThis is a new piece of the view of the River Wye and its valley from Symonds Yat Rock in Gloucestershire in the west of England. This view is a particular favourite of mine. I've drawn it once before and the work just flowed! This time I loved drawing it and loved the end result all over again - I guess some views just make my artistic 'juices' flow. My previous piece is very firmly attached to my sitting room wall and is very definitely not for sale whereas this piece is for sale next month (see below)! Click on the picture for a larger image.This view of the woods alongside the River Wye from Symonds Yat is both extremely popular and internationally famous. However, as anyone who has visited the Rock will know, there's not a lot of space and there are usually throngs of people there - all keen to soak up the view and to see if they can spot the Peregrine Falcons which have a RSPB protec
