CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
Australian Greeks are today glued to the television, as one of their own opens the batting for Australia in day 1 of the Melbourne test.
19-year-old Sam Konstas, has already snatched a half-century off 52 balls on debut, with momentum building.
The Sydney Greek has already put india on the back foot in the fourth Test at the MCG, and he’s done it with his own unique style.
By breaking from the stuffy conventions that usually defined international cricket, the debutant has been notching sixes with ramp shots. The type of lairy cricket that is usually reserved for T20 matches and celebrity exhibitions games.
While purists may find this brand of flashy batting a little uncomfortable, Konstas is unflinching in his self-confidence, just like tennis superstar Mark Philippoussis and Australian boxing’s George Kambosos Jr before him.
This spree of electric cricket has been littered with sledges and shoulders charges against the Indian opponents.
At the end of the over, the Gen-Z sensation revealed to sideline cameras that he wants to ‘play with freedom and to back himself’.
With this style of explosive and extravagant cricket ramping up the intensity of the Boxing day test, Australians right around the country are demanding more of the wild combinations of confidence, skill and cockiness.
Konstas continues the legacy of the last dashingly good looking and extremely flashy Greek to make it this far in representative cricket, the Western Australian adonis Mark ‘Pipes’ Stoinis.
Kala Cristouyenna!
Καλά Χριστούγεννα!
