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A day to forget for Symonds …
Things have a habit of going wrong when you’re struggling, as Matthew Hayden discovered when he was run out on the second day. On the third morning fortune also frowned upon his good mate Andrew Symonds, who is trying to re-establish his Test career after being stood down from the side for two months. Following his bar-room incident in Brisbane, Symonds is under such an intense spotlight that even news of him missing a Queensland training session in October was splashed over the Sunday papers this morning. There were also reports that the man who photographed Symonds in the Normanby Hotel told Cricket Australia Symonds had elbowed him in the jaw, but the complaint came after the allrounder had been cleared of any wrongdoing. The day only got worse for Symonds when the umpire Billy Doctrove gave him out caught behind for a duck despite the ball appearing to miss the bat. Read more
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