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Pat Symcox has weighed in with his own bit of free publicity in the war of words before the Proteas-Australia test series in an interview where he has labelled the Proteas ‘pathetic’ for talking up their talent before actually playing in Australia.

Symcox insists his former side is living in false hope by believing its recent 2-0 Test series win against Bangladesh is an adequate formline for playing Australia at home.
“To believe that they are now well-prepared to take on the Aussies after a convincing win at home against Bangladesh is naive in the extreme,” Symcox said.

“Bangladesh would battle to beat my local ski-boat club on a bad day.

“To hear players and coaches stating how well they played against these palookas is really pathetic.”

Symmo is well remembered here for being hit on the head by a flying roast chicken while fielding in the deep at the Sydney Cricket Ground in the mid-90s. Although the rather over-refreshed spectator apologised for his actions, Symcox’s hilarious reactions are still spoken about in the bowels of Kings Cross and other pubs in the vicinity.

Symmo continued with his spray, “Kallis is a great player but in recent times has lost his way,” .

Symcox’s comments will go down like a lead balloon in a South African camp that is confident of winnings its first series in Australia but were the lead item on Channel 9’s sports broadcast throughout Australia this morning.

Talking of Channel 9, Ian Chappell the former Australian great, has had to take a pay cut as the network battles with debt and falling ratings. However, the full line-up of commentators for the Protea series makes one wonder if they’re asking for enlarged commentary boxes - Richie Benaud; Mark Nicholas; Mark Taylor, Ian Healy, Shane Warne, Michael Slater, Ian Chappell and, of course, Tony Greig. I’m not sure how objective that lot are going to be.

Manu

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