Our proud; arrogant ; boorish and haughty cricketers would do well to emulate team England opening bat Alex Hales and treat the fans who have accorded them demi god status with due respect and courtesy......
Hales who was playing for his spot in the English test team in the just concluded Edgbaston test in which his team beat the Pakistanis by the proverbial country mile readily acceded to an irate and piqued fan's request for a 10% refund of the amount paid by him as he could only witness 81 overs being bowled rather than the stipulated 90 during the course of day's play........
Alexis Fuller (the disgruntled fan) who witnessed the just concluded test match on Friday and Saturday exasperatedly demanded a 10% refund of the money paid by him to witness the day's proceedings after former English skipper and present day commentator Michael Vaughan raised his concerns over the abysmal over rate of both the competing teams and gave them a piece of his mind for only having bowled a pithy 81 overs during the course of 6 and a half hours.......
Fuller immediately latched onto Vaughan's scathing and acerbic remarks about the appalling over rates and demanded a 10% refund of the amount paid by him as he felt cheated and slighted at having been denied his due right to watch the stipulated 90 overs of cricket as mandated by the ICC........
He proceeded to send out a series of tweets to Alex Hales; Joe Root; Johnny Bairstow; Moeen Ali; Chris Woakes; Steven Finn; Stuart Broad and last but not the least Jimmy Anderson querying whether any one of these notables would care to refund 10% of the gate fees doled out by him as he had been denied his right to enjoy a full day's play thanks to the participating team's procrastination and time wasting.........
Hales was the only English cricketer to take due notice of the avowed fan's tirade and graciously consented to refund Fuller the 4 pounds and 10 cents due to (10% of the gate fees) and asked him to provide him with details about his bank account so that he could deposit the said amount in the same post haste........
Taken by utter surprise and wary about ending up at the receiving end of a hoax played on him by a prankster pretending to be Alex Hales Fuller somewhat reluctantly tweeted the details pertaining to his bank account and was more than pleasantly surprised to receive a telephonic message from his bank duly informing him that the above mentioned sum had been debited to his bank account from Mr. Hale's bank account.........
An ecstatic and overwhelmed Fuller once again took to twitter to express his deep sense of gratitude and gushed about Hales gentlemanly behaviour and conduct that had completely bowled him over and left him shaking his head in utter disbelief.......
Like I said earlier our "esteemed" cricketers who are mostly prone to treating the paying fan with utter contempt and disdain would do well to emulate Alex hales and learn a lesson or two in humility and graciousness from him.........
Hales who was playing for his spot in the English test team in the just concluded Edgbaston test in which his team beat the Pakistanis by the proverbial country mile readily acceded to an irate and piqued fan's request for a 10% refund of the amount paid by him as he could only witness 81 overs being bowled rather than the stipulated 90 during the course of day's play........
Alexis Fuller (the disgruntled fan) who witnessed the just concluded test match on Friday and Saturday exasperatedly demanded a 10% refund of the money paid by him to witness the day's proceedings after former English skipper and present day commentator Michael Vaughan raised his concerns over the abysmal over rate of both the competing teams and gave them a piece of his mind for only having bowled a pithy 81 overs during the course of 6 and a half hours.......
Fuller immediately latched onto Vaughan's scathing and acerbic remarks about the appalling over rates and demanded a 10% refund of the amount paid by him as he felt cheated and slighted at having been denied his due right to watch the stipulated 90 overs of cricket as mandated by the ICC........
He proceeded to send out a series of tweets to Alex Hales; Joe Root; Johnny Bairstow; Moeen Ali; Chris Woakes; Steven Finn; Stuart Broad and last but not the least Jimmy Anderson querying whether any one of these notables would care to refund 10% of the gate fees doled out by him as he had been denied his right to enjoy a full day's play thanks to the participating team's procrastination and time wasting.........
Hales was the only English cricketer to take due notice of the avowed fan's tirade and graciously consented to refund Fuller the 4 pounds and 10 cents due to (10% of the gate fees) and asked him to provide him with details about his bank account so that he could deposit the said amount in the same post haste........
Taken by utter surprise and wary about ending up at the receiving end of a hoax played on him by a prankster pretending to be Alex Hales Fuller somewhat reluctantly tweeted the details pertaining to his bank account and was more than pleasantly surprised to receive a telephonic message from his bank duly informing him that the above mentioned sum had been debited to his bank account from Mr. Hale's bank account.........
An ecstatic and overwhelmed Fuller once again took to twitter to express his deep sense of gratitude and gushed about Hales gentlemanly behaviour and conduct that had completely bowled him over and left him shaking his head in utter disbelief.......
Like I said earlier our "esteemed" cricketers who are mostly prone to treating the paying fan with utter contempt and disdain would do well to emulate Alex hales and learn a lesson or two in humility and graciousness from him.........
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