{"id":37561,"date":"2019-08-05T15:25:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T15:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=37561"},"modified":"2021-12-06T08:42:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T08:42:16","slug":"why-knox-is-streets-ahead-of-roebuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/why-knox-is-streets-ahead-of-roebuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Knox is streets ahead of Roebuck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffcc99;\">Why Knox is streets ahead of Roebuck<\/span><\/h1>\n<div class=\"SC_pct \">\n<div id=\"zmConP1564975240550110001\" class=\"jsContentpart\">\n<div id=\"zmCP1564975240550110001\" class=\"zmPCon\">\n<div class=\"zmPCnt\">\n<div class=\"jsConTent\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">This sort of article usually takes days to write.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">People ask me whether I attend cricket matches? I say no. They ask me <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">whether I follow it on TV. I say no because TV tires my eyes. They <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">then ask me how I call myself a cricket follower. I say &#8211; by reading <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">about cricket.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Apart from Knox and Haigh there are a host of other cricket writers I <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">read in the local newspapers. Baum is one of them.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Stranger things at Edgbaston, where sneaky Steve Smith&#8217;s the arch-villain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">By Malcolm Knox<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">August 2, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">When Steve Smith reached his milestone 50th and 100th runs at <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Edgbaston on\u00a0<span class=\"zm_inLnk\" data-value=\"2019-08-08 08:30:00\">Thursday<\/span>, and when he was out after one of the great <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">innings in Ashes history, a funny thing happened. Sections of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">crowd in the Eric Hollies Stand, England cricket&#8217;s version of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">MCG&#8217;s Bay 13, booed their little red-and-white hearts out.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">That wasn&#8217;t the funny thing. The funny thing was that after they had <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">booed him for six or seven seconds, thousands of those very same <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">people joined the prolonged applause to recognise an achievement in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">the face of several kinds of adversity, one of which they themselves <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">had generated.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Steve Smith was widely cheered for his incredible knock &#8211; eventually.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 24px; color: #000000;\">Fair play &#8211; you cheat! &#8211; fair play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">People are strange, when you&#8217;re a stranger. Jim Morrison nailed it. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Nobody could have felt more foreign and maligned in Birmingham than <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Steve Smith, but then people can be foreign to themselves. Smith might <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">himself have reflected on the apparent contradiction among the fans, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">if he had not been preoccupied with touching thigh pad, box, helmet, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">pad flap and other pad flap in the correct order. People are strange.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Among English crowds, there is a clear hierarchy in perceptions of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Australian villainy and it is different from our own. When Cameron <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Bancroft, David Warner <\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">and Smith appear, there is a crescendo in the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">volume of the booing. Bancroft, the one who actually used sandpaper on <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">the ball in Cape Town, barely registers. That would be the same in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Australia. He was the easily-led junior.But where the Australian <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">consensus holds Warner as Doctor Evil in the fiendish plot and Smith<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">merely the hapless captain too weak to stop him, in England it is <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Smith who has the role of the arch-villain \u2013 if the strength of booing <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">is anything to go by.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">There are diverse theories for why they really pick on Smith. One is <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">that if there&#8217;s one thing everyone hates more than a cheat, it&#8217;s a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">hypocrite. Warner&#8217;s persona plays up to the English caricature of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Australian sportsman: blunt, thoughtless, aggressive, crude. What you <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">see is what you get and what they see in Warner is what they want to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">get from a certain type of Australian.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Smith, by contrast, is perceived as a sneak, someone who as captain <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">professed to the highest ideals of the sacred game of cricket with one <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">side of his face and, with the other, facilitated a conspiracy.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Warner is closer to forgiveness because he wasn&#8217;t pretending to be <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">anything other than he was.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Another theory is that these fans view themselves as participants in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">the action and attack Smith because they see him as more of a threat. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Warner, who has succeeded in most other places, has never made a Test <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">century in England. Smith has been making hundreds here since 2013. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">The booing is in proportion to the danger each batsman poses to the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">English cause. Therefore the booing can be received as a back-handed <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">compliment.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Yet another explanation is that people prey on vulnerability. Some of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">the crowd&#8217;s scripted songs and chants about Smith refer to his tears <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">at his press conference in Sydney after returning from South Africa <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">last year. (When he brought up his century at Edgbaston, the trumpeter <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">was playing Don&#8217;t Cry for Me, Argentina.) This is the bleakest <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">interpretation of why the booing is loudest for him. Warner&#8217;s hide is <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">too thick to penetrate, whereas Smith has feelings, and these feelings <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">must be exploited.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">At a time when the treatment of Adam Goodes by AFL crowds is again in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">the spotlight, it is a complex matter to try to understand the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">behaviour of large gatherings. There are obvious differences between <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">the cases. Goodes never did anything wrong \u2013 even for those who didn&#8217;t <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">like him and rationalised their actions under some non-racist banner, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">he did nothing like what the cricketers did, which was blatant <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">cheating. But there is a question common to every instance of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">concerted booing of skilled public performers, which is why sport <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">invites people, gathered under a collective emblem, to act in ways <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">that they themselves will never comprehend. Why is it that, in a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">ritualised occasion, they lose their capacity for independent action?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">If this were a highbrow, non-booing, independently-thinking <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">publication, now would be the time for an Emile Durkheim quote. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Durkheim, as well as being patron saint of undergraduates who need to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">memorise quotes for exam essays, was a French sociologist who <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">contributed greatly to our understanding of the behaviour of crowds at <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">a time when crowd behaviour was turning to acts of unthinkable <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">atrocity.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Durkheim said that the ability to reflect, to think for ourselves, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">&#8216;disappears to the extent that thought and action take the form of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">automatic habits&#8217;. The more we are encased in set rituals, the more <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">unthinking we are.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">There is no more fixed ritual than going to a sporting fixture. We <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">pretend we are watching because we don&#8217;t know how it will turn out, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">but the unpredictability is contained within a rigid frame \u2013 at the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">cricket it&#8217;s three sessions, 90 overs, lunch at 1pm and so on \u2013 which <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">is entirely controlled and exactly as it is meant to be.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">So sport offers us a seed of the unknown inside a warm large pod of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">the known. We go because we know what to expect and react in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">unreflective, automatic ways. We boo because the person next to us is <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">booing and that is what we came for. Then we applaud because the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">person next to us is applauding and that is what we came for. We boo <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">and applaud the same performer from one moment to the next. We don&#8217;t<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">think. (Durkheim also said that the ability to reflect &#8216;awakes only <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">when accepted habits become disorganised&#8217;. Such a disorganising event <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">was the death of Phillip Hughes, for example, which broke automatic <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">habits and sparked an all too brief moment of reflection).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">All this esoteric stuff is just a way of saying that when they are in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">crowds, people can become strangers to themselves. They are not haters <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">just because they boo Steve Smith. They were not racists just because <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">they booed Adam Goodes. The more united they are in their crowd, the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">less the individuals know themselves. Sometimes they act with hate one <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">minute and appreciation the next, and they have absolutely no idea <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">why.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">People are strange indeed. Eric Hollies, the Warwickshire spinner <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">after whom the stand at Edgbaston is named, is best known for ruining <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Don Bradman&#8217;s 100-run Test batting average, bowling him for a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">second-ball duck in his farewell innings in 1948.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">There&#8217;s an interesting story about that event, which was also notable <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">for England captain Norman Yardley asking his players to give Bradman <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">three cheers before his first ball. Yardley is remembered for that act <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">of sportsmanship.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">But according to his teammates, Yardley walked up to Hollies and said <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">that three cheers &#8216;is all we&#8217;ll give him \u2013 then bowl him out&#8217;. Two <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">balls later, Hollies did just that. The English crowd gave Bradman a <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">prolonged standing ovation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">As he walked off, Hollies said, &#8216;Best f&#8212;ing ball I&#8217;ve bowled all <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">season, and they&#8217;re clapping him!&#8217;<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zm_ry\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"SCS_postWra js-collab-component\">\n<div class=\"sc_cmdv SCS_cmnt\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" data-commentviewid=\"view1374\" data-id=\"660010227#1564975240550110001\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"SCS_cmnt zms_fixed zmCmntFixed inputFocus\">\n<div class=\"cmntText\">\n<div class=\"zm_mention\">\n<div class=\"zm_mentionbg\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Why Knox is streets ahead of Roebuck This sort of article usually takes days to write. 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