Waleed Aly has been roundly slammed for mistaking the captain of the Australian girls’s cricket workforce for one in every of her teammates throughout an interview on The Project.
Aly was talking to Meg Lanning on Monday evening after Australia defeated South Africa within the closing of the T20 World Cup so as to add one other trophy to their overflowing cupboard.
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Australia went undefeated all through the match and Aly raised the 97-run win over New Zealand within the group stage as an indication of the Aussies’ dominance.
Aly mentioned to Lanning: “Meg stop sharing the credit around, this is about you because you took 5/12 against New Zealand and you were Australia’s second-highest scorer, were you playing in the under 12s?”
The solely downside was Lanning doesn’t bowl for Australia and the bowling figures Aly cited really belonged to Ash Gardner, who was named participant of the match.
The all-rounder was not too long ago snapped up by the Gujarat Giants for A$558,000 within the inaugural girls’s Indian Premier League public sale.
Viewers and cricket followers have been additionally left unimpressed by Aly evaluating girls’s cricket to “under 12s”, contemplating the progress the sport has made lately.
Lanning didn’t appropriate Aly for complicated her with Gardner and diplomatically deflected his beneath 12s dig.
“Ah no (it wasn’t an under 12s standard),” she mentioned.
“I think it was a tougher tournament than it came across as. We were put under the pump a fair bit and we were able to respond.
“That’s the best part about this group, we really thrive under pressure when things get a little bit tough and we are able to come through.”
For what it’s value, the Kiwis put up a a lot better combat towards Australia within the semi-final, which the Aussies gained by 5 wickets with simply three balls to spare.
And it’s protected to say Aly’s lack of consideration to element went down like a led balloon with viewers.
CODE Sports’ Lachlan McKirdy tweeted: “Great seeing Meg Lanning on The Project, but don’t know if Waleed Aly talking about their win over New Zealand in the group stage and saying “it was like under-12s cricket” is the praise he thinks it’s.
“Not only does he get it wrong saying Meg took five wickets (that was Ash Gardner), the good ol’ throwaway ‘were you playing in the under 12s?’.”
Australia’s girls’s cricket workforce has now gained six of the final eight T20 World Cups.
In the final 12 months, they’ve gained the ODI World Cup, Commonwealth Games gold and the T20 World Cup.
It’s an unparalleled stage of domination that many consider would have warranted at the least a nomination for the workforce of the yr gong on the prestigious Laureus Awards.
But alas, it appears our all-conquering Aussie girls are nonetheless looking for respect at residence and overseas.
Originally revealed as Waleed Aly slammed for tone deaf dig, mistaking Aussie girls’s cricket captain for teammate
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
