Symonds won't tell Aussie crowds to behave
In the Australian , Malcolm Conn speaks to Cricket Australia’s public affairs manager Peter Young about the decision to drop plans to use Andrew Symonds as the face of its campaign for better crowd behaviour this summer.
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
In the Australian, Malcolm Conn speaks to Cricket Australia’s public affairs manager Peter Young about the decision to drop plans to use Andrew Symonds as the face of its campaign for better crowd behaviour this summer.
"There are a lot of elements to this [campaign]," Young said. "During the first one-day match in Melbourne last summer we had something like 100 people treated in casualty for wounds and injuries they received during the Mexican wave. That sort of thing is diabolical." Young also confirmed that a woman broke her jaw when a spectator went to punch a beach ball being thrown among the crowd and hit her by mistake. A seven-year-old child was also "squashed" when a spectator leapt to punch a beach ball and landed in the seat in front of him.
I wouldn’t condemn what happened with Andrew Symonds as ‘racism’, writes Ayaz Memon in the Daily News and Analysis.
Meanwhile, in an interview to NDTV, an Indian news channel, Symonds tries to play down the monkey chants controversy and feels the media has blown the issue out of proportion.
Brydon Coverdale is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here