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Article: Battered old comedian could have final laugh; Aussie paceman Jason Gillespie is used to getting stick in England and this year is no exception, reports Ian Chadband.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- July 19, 2005
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Byline: IAN CHADBAND
THEY started laughing and shouting "where's your caravan?" at him eight years ago, leaving a young Aussie paceman to wonder what the Pom crowds were on about. When he returned four years ago, it dawned on Jason Gillespie that they thought he looked like a gypsy and he couldn't exactly see what was funny about that either.
Ah, but this time around as his mullet has got even madder, his bowling wilder but less intimidating and his fielding the source of unbridled Pom glee, this old Trojan of the Australian attack, for so long part thoroughbred and part workhorse, has seemed to have quite taken to his role here of some sort of battered ...