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Grant Flower punished for breach of discipline
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:27 pm
by CrimsonAvenger
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/20072010/ ... lined.html
Essex players Tom Westley, Billy Godleman and Grant Flower have been punished by the club for breaches of discipline.
All three players reacted excessively to being given out, with Westley and Godleman both damaging property at Coggeshall Cricket Club in a Second XI match and Flower, the former Zimbabwe batsman, smashing his stumps down after being dismissed in a Friends Provident t20 game against Sussex.
"The club takes these incidents extremely seriously and all the players have been severely reprimanded and fined," said David East, the Essex chief executive.
"In addition they have been warned regarding their future conduct and reminded of their responsibilities as ambassadors for Essex Cricket wherever they are playing."
I have never seen Grant lose his cool throughout his career. He would be the last one to do something like that. Anyway, hope he comes back as the GF of old when he does come back as Batting coach.
Re: Grant Flower punished for breach of discipline
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:37 pm
by bayhaus
If he is going to throuw his toys away in tantrunms maybe he is not the right person to take over Zim otherwise I will give him three months and he will "throw his toys away" and quit.
Re: Grant Flower punished for breach of discipline
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 11:01 pm
by shumbat
Grant's time on the playing field is up, he is getting frustrated by not reaching the levels he sets himself. If he can impart this hunger to the young Zimbos they will be good to play at the highest level.
Re: Grant Flower punished for breach of discipline
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:10 am
by ZIMDOGGY
Grant Flower:
Menace II society.
Re: Grant Flower punished for breach of discipline
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 10:54 am
by sloandog
shumbat wrote:Grant's time on the playing field is up, he is getting frustrated by not reaching the levels he sets himself. If he can impart this hunger to the young Zimbos they will be good to play at the highest level.
Well lets not forget that He's the only guy to have scored 2 hundreds for Essex in the one day format, and he's been in decent form with the ball too. So lets not just jump to conclusions. I still stand by what i said a while back and think he'd still be able to do a job for Zimbabwe as a batter.
Re: Grant Flower punished for breach of discipline
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 12:14 pm
by Mike
I never have any problems with batsmen doing stuff like this when there out. Of cause its not good, and of cause they shouldn't do it, but what would you rather see. A batsman who gets out and doesn't care at all?
Re: Grant Flower punished for breach of discipline
Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 2:14 pm
by sloandog
I'd prefer to see the batter take it like a man, and keep his dummy in his mouth. Something Flower clearly didnt do
Re: Grant Flower punished for breach of discipline
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 1:38 am
by ZIMDOGGY
sloandog wrote:I'd prefer to see the batter take it like a man, and keep his dummy in his mouth. Something Flower clearly didnt do
i disagree.
i like it when they fire up...when they have passion.
like mark vermeulen without the violence or like a batting equivalent to raymond price.
Re: Grant Flower punished for breach of discipline
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 11:18 am
by Mike
I agree
Re: Grant Flower punished for breach of discipline
Posted: Fri Jul 23, 2010 3:51 pm
by Zimfanatic69
sloandog wrote:shumbat wrote:Grant's time on the playing field is up, he is getting frustrated by not reaching the levels he sets himself. If he can impart this hunger to the young Zimbos they will be good to play at the highest level.
Well lets not forget that He's the only guy to have scored 2 hundreds for Essex in the one day format, and he's been in decent form with the ball too. So lets not just jump to conclusions. I still stand by what i said a while back and think he'd still be able to do a job for Zimbabwe as a batter.
Bonkers.
When he played for Zim he was a good, solid, but unspectacular opener whose average was pretty, well, average. He has had a good stint in County Cricket and done relatively well there but it is a huge leap to go up to test and interntational class. He would struggle at the highest level.
His job for Zim is as a coach and a mentor.