Vice Captain Michael Clarke has quit Australia's cricket tour of New Zealand and returned to Sydney following the fallout of the nude photo scandal involving his fiancée Lara Bingle.
Clarke boarded a plane from New Zealand last night arriving in Sydney this morning. The same morning that his team was due to play New Zealand in their 3rd ODI.
Clarke’s manager has confirmed to The Punch website that the Australian cricket team’s vice-captain left the New Zealand tour to support Bingle, who has been distraught over recent publicity around a nude photo of her appearing in a magazine.
I’m pretty sure that Lara is big enough and old enough to take care of her own little problems, she is 22 yrs old going on 23 later this year and I’m also sure that she has family around her for support and her new agent Max Markson.
This isn’t the only time L
ara has interrupted Clarke’s cricket with her personal life, 2 other incidents of late which come to hand are those such has when the couple had a dispute in Australia’s change room at the SCG in the full view of the public and also last year Clarke wanted the team song to be sung early so that he could quickly get home to his precious fiancée.This is the man who is supposed to be Australia’s next Captain and I’m starting to think if he is the right man for the job if his personal life keeps interfering with cricket. I’m a strong believer that you sort your personal matters out in your own spare time and don’t let it interfere with your work.
I would love to see if this same situation which has a very coincidental publicity stunt stink to it (occurring a week after Lara signed with new celebrity agent Max Markson) had occurred whilst the Ashes were on whether that was here in Australia or over in England. Would Clarke desert his team then and would the Coach Tim Nielsen and Captain Ricky Ponting let him go back home to help sort out nothing that he can even sort out firsthand…..
Clarke you should put your head down and front foot forward and get back to the blistering form you are in!
I agree with you to some level, he has made a commitment to his team mates which is very important espeacially for someone who is supose to be the next captin although to me the person you are with comes first if she really needed him than he is doing right in saying that I think she could have gone to him instead of the other way around, It is her problem after all. Good work its a great blog
ReplyDeleteYeh it's a massive talking point at the moment and everyone still isn't sure of the out come, are they together or aren't they. It seems like averyone had an opinion when the story 1st broke and you know what everyone's opinion isn't right or wrong because we aren't Michael Clarke, cheers for your insight i agree totally with what you said!
ReplyDeleteLatest news is that they're over, Rover. Lara Bingle is still very inexperienced when it comes to handling media attention and she seems to be making one mistake after another. If you're going to use the media to promote yourself like she so blatantly has, you also have to learn to work with them. It has to be a give and take situation. Maybe Paris Hilton should give her some advice...
ReplyDeletehaha yeah they are over but no one knows if they are still together even though the engagement is off. Yeah she is in the media and never does an interview or anything, that just puts them not on your side and has them even more hungry to chase her. oh well no one wnats to hire her or anything, and now atleast clarkey can concentrate on his cricket and doesnt have his bored partner nagging at him the whole time!
ReplyDeleteWord on the grape vine is Lara Bingle seems to be holding out for a reunion with Michael Clarke,The model's been busy looking around to buy her own home, and is close to signing a contract...
ReplyDeletegood to hear that she is living her own life now rather than just being a tag along "WAG" of the cricketing world of Michael Clarke
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