Fishing issue keeps biting Symonds

While he has freely offered his own evidence that he's also a bit of a dill - his autobiography contains a chapter devoted to team-mates relating stories about his various faux pas - there is a streak of something more unpleasant, too. Since his elevation to stardom, which was a long time happening, he seems to believe he's a law unto himself. Turning up drunk for a match in England three years ago suggested that, and ignoring last week's meeting underscores it.