That dude is Glenn McGrath
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Alex Brown watches Glenn McGrath and Stuart Clark go almost unnoticed during a night fitness session .
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Alex Brown watches Glenn McGrath and Stuart Clark go almost unnoticed during a night fitness session.
The idea of Glenn McGrath and Stuart Clark running in together might strike fear into the hearts of English batsmen but, apparently, not Sylvania schoolgirls. “Who is that dude?" a young girl asked her friends as McGrath sprinted by. "That's, that's … what's his name?" That, m'dear, is the most anticipated comeback in Australian sport playing out before you.
In The Guardian Mike Selvey looks at the "blathering", "drivel" and "banalities" of McGrath's pre-series predictions.
This is intended to be oh so scary, which once, when he was in his pomp, it might have been, but now, coming from a fellow rising 37 who won't have bowled for the best part of a year and when he does will do so at around Paul Collingwood's pace, carries the physical and mental threat of Private Pike. Perhaps he realises that actually England's batsmen will be targeting him and is just getting his retaliation in first.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo