"Pup ate my homework".

[The InnFORCEr]

Gags flow over Aussie cricket 'homework' debacle

MEGAN LEVY

Last updated 17:03 12/03/2013


Cricketer Shane Watson had the perfect excuse to give Australia's selectors, according to some online jokesters, when he was in effect sent to stand in the corner with his hands on his head for not completing his cricket "homework" in India overnight.

The gags are flowing thick and fast on social media after it was announced that Watson and three other members of Australia's floundering cricketing team - Mitchell Johnson, James Pattinson and Usman Khawaja - would be stood down for Thursday's third test for a breach of team discipline.

The quartet had failed to complete written "homework", set by head coach Mickey Arthur, to deliver a presentation, by email or in person, on what they brought to the team in the wake of last week's embarrassing defeat in Hyderabad.

The move was supported by Australian captain Michael "Pup" Clarke, but has become a laughing stock on social media, where the homework debacle has been given the online spoofing treatment.

No longer the baggy greens, Australia's cricketers are being portrayed to as the saggy greens.

In one image doing the rounds, Shane Watson is pictured sitting despondently at a desk in a school uniform, grasping a pencil with his head in his hands.

"Homework due Saturday," says a note on the blackboard behind him.

Bart Simpson's famous blackboard gag, which features in the opening credits of each show, has been altered to repeatedly say: "I will not question Michael Clarke's authority".

Also creating debate online is what form the cricketer's homework was meant to have taken. Were they meant to do a speech? Maybe a PowerPoint presentation?

"Clearly only one man can save Australian cricket... Robert Gaskins, the inventor of Microsoft Powerpoint," tweeted David Tossell (@David-Tossell).

Former England skipper Michael Vaughan tweeted an image of a man he described as "Australia's new number 3": Bill Gates. The billionaire Microsoft founder is shown pointing to a screen which says: "Why I Should Be The Australian Cricket Team's Powerpoint Coach".

Poor Shane Watson has already copped it in the English press, where former English swing bowler Matthew Hoggard said he wasn't the "sharpest tool in the shed".

"Getting him to write things out and put them in front of the coach is not going to be his strong point," he told the BBC.


http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket...mework-debacle

[jargan83]

Only one out of the three players stood down will be missed and it's not Shane Watson

Hopefully Watto's pea hearted Test career is finished

[PeterM]

It amazes me in sport how some players have the luxury of more chances when they misbehave or lose form than players who are better/more talented than they are get shoved at the door at the drop of a hat

[Happy]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/videos/...me-compilation

[SinBin]

Bloody embarrassment. Reaction of some past players:

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/...312-2fxa9.html

[jono]

It's a total joke. Genuinely thought this was an early April fools day prank.
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[Alison]

Only one out of the three players stood down will be missed and it's not Shane Watson

Hopefully Watto's pea hearted Test career is finished

Pattinson?

[jargan83]

Pattinson?

Winner

Watch as India rack up 3/900 this weekend
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[brokendown gunfighter]

who are going to take the 3?

[shasta]

It's a total joke. Genuinely thought this was an early April fools day prank.
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What's the joke jono? The coach calling for an explanation of what these blokes bring to the poorly performing Test team or their being disciplined for a lack of respect for the coach and skipper for not doing so?

Word around the traps is tha Watson didn't complete his homework because he didn't know how to spell the second word in get ------.
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[brokendown gunfighter]

nor did you by the look of it

[Alison]

There must be more to it than just not doing 'homework'. To make Aus the laughing stock of the cricketing world just a few months out from the Ashes must surely mean there is something very very 'toxic' that needs an industrial strength clean up!

I hope it has the desired effect on the squad!

[PeterM]

the three wickets will all be run outs

[Ecky]

One will be caught on the boundary

...and Sachin to finally get that elusive next ton!

[AndyS]

Maybe the board ought to have Arthur and Clarke explain in three points each how openly explaining the process and reasons in a press conference is going to help Australian cricket...?
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