Top 10 tips on being a professional cricketer:
- Do not on any circumstance be drinking alcohol in any public place.
- You are to never hang around with ordinary members of the public.
- You are to never socialize or be seen in any public location with members of any other sporting code.
- The media at all times will use the smallest issue and blow it out of proportion, as such you are expected to go along with them at all times.
- The above mentioned media issues will require countless media appearances, internal reviews and statements to be made, telling the truth at these meetings will be seen to the media to be a lie or a cover up – Don’t let this worry you. Hopefully your team mates will believe you.
- At all times you are to remember and act like you are not a normal person but a perfect role model.
- In fact, you should never be seen in public unless travelling to training sessions, games or team meetings.
- Social hobbies such as golf, fishing, boating, sailing or in fact, any recreational activity should only ever be done when you are not in the country and surrounded by your cricket team.
- If you expect the media and public to have a brain you are certainly in the wrong industry, as such you should at all times expect the littlest thing you do to be publicly scrutinized to the nth degree. Just because you got no runs and dismissed first ball to the best delivery you’ve seen does not excuse you from scoring a century – try not to let this pressure build on you too much. AND
- You are to act in a robotic nature at all times. To show any emotion or human normality is a weakness and will see you hauled over the coals and number 5 to be reinitated.
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