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Australians need counselling: Lawson

Melbourne: It’s not only the Indians who feel that the current Australian cricket team is arrogant.

Even Geoff Lawson, former Australian Test cricketer and current coach of Pakistan, believes that the players don’t play in the spirit of the game and they need “counselling.”

“There’s certainly been a lot of feeling from ex-players who think the baggy green has been disrespected. Some of these (current) players need to be spoken to”.

“ certainly don’t agree with dragging (Ricky) Ponting’s captaincy, I just think a bit of counselling needs to be done with how these players perceive themselves”.

“As an ex-Australian player I was pretty disappointed. Perception is everything and the outside world thinks that this Australian team is arrogant and not well behaved.

“Whether the team themselves think that is another issue, but I can guarantee you the rest of the cricket world certainly feel that about this cricket team,” The Daily Telegraph in Sydney quoted Lawson as saying.

However, he believes the fallout from the Harbhajan Singh racism charge and the subsequent allegations of on-field verbal abuse by Australia’s Brad Hogg could change the cricketing landscape. — PTI

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