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Kraigg Brathwaite after West Indies’ victory over Australia in the second Test© X (formerly Twitter)
Legendary Australian cricketer Rodney Hogg has been in the news recently after West Indies captain Kraigg Brathwaite said his team used the former star’s criticism as inspiration during the victory over Australia in the second Test match. in Gabba. Previously, Hogg called the West Indies team “desperate” and “pathetic”, but after the match, Brathwaite flexed his muscles and even went on to ask: “Are these muscles big enough for him?” Hogg finally broke his silence since Australia’s defeat and said the match looked like a “two and a half day game” but the West Indies fought back brilliantly.
“When I looked at the West Indies in the first innings of this second Test, I was looking here and I thought, ‘How good was my prediction?’ They were 5/65 and Starc had three wickets… it seemed like a two and a half day game with no result.” “What an incredible performance, it was fantastic to see them get the chance to play a second Test. “The game against Australia. The fact that they were at the Gabba, some of them had never played a day-night game before. There’s a pink ball. They’re in front of 30,000 or 40,000 people. It’s a different experience,” Hogg said to sen.com.au.
It was West Indies’ first Test victory on Australian soil since 1997 and despite facing early setbacks, Shamar Joseph produced an excellent seven-wicket haul to guide the visitors to victory.
Hogg joked that he had apparently “reinvented West Indies Test cricket” and said that the West Indies were hopeless when he made that comment, but over time they showed massive improvement.
“Well, I have apparently reinvented West Indies Test cricket. “They were desperate before I made those comments and everyone stood up and was motivated to play well.”
“They came here with six guys who didn’t have a trial cap and were very inexperienced, and you thought, ‘Well, they’re a hopeless bunch of players,’ but give them some playing time, some of them showed it. , some real skill, right? The better the two games went, the better they became,” he added.
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