da apostaganha： Steve Waugh, laughing off an English newspaper that depicted him as a prawn on a barbecue, has begun his fourth Ashes tour by revealing it might not be his last.
da bwin： AAP31-May-2001Steve Waugh, laughing off an English newspaper that depicted him as a prawnon a barbecue, has begun his fourth Ashes tour by revealing it might not behis last.Waugh and his twin, Mark, turn 36 on Saturday but the Australian captainadmitted his previously nominated retirement date of the 2003 World Cup wasnot set in stone.”I’m not absolutely sure this is my last,” he said before the Australianone-day squad’s fitness and net sessions on the picturesque Worcestershireground ahead of Friday’s tour opener.”Look, I’d like to go to another World Cup and try and retain our trophy andI may go beyond that – or I may go before that.”I love playing cricket and playing cricket for Australia. Wearing thatbaggy green is something special, so I want to soak that up as long as Ican.”The Mirror newspaper superimposed the heads of Waugh, Glenn McGrath andShane Warne atop three sizzling prawns on a barbecue beneath the back pageheadline: “Let’s throw a few prawns on the barbie … and watch Englandclean up the Ashes.”Waugh would not be baited.”They don’t look like Aussie prawns, they’re not big enough,” he told apacked press conference.”It’s a nice look, thanks very much – something to show the kids when I getback home.”With Test regulars Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Michael Slater, Justin Langerand the Waugh twins all over the age of 30, a changing of the guard inAustralian cricket is only a few years away.More than half the current one-day and Test players will not be back inEngland in four years, so an extension to Waugh’s career would have obviousbenefits to an evolving squad.He claimed his sights on tour were set no farther than next month’s one-daytournament against England and Pakistan, but his eyes lit up when talkturned to the Tests, which begin on July 5.”I’ve got a gut feeling this series is going to be very competitive, veryclose, it will be exciting and we’re here to play aggressive and positivecricket and win every Test match,” he said.”Getting that urn at the end of the series is very important to allAustralians.”Asked the highlight of his Ashes career, Waugh said: “It hasn’t come yet.”Meanwhile, the ACB is yet to decide whether Australia will wear coloured orwhite clothing in the three-day fixture against Worcestershire.
