10 Dressing room secrets in cricket history

9. Drunken Andrew Symonds making skipper Ponting’s blood boil

With this incident famously getting shaped just before the match when Australia had famously lost to Bangladesh in an ODI in 2005, skipper Ponting had revealed that since Andrew Symonds was so affected by the alcohol before the match day that he not only had fallen over at the training but also tried to convince the coach that he was well versed at playing in such a hazy state.

As per the skipper when Andrew Symonds had just come in and started to warm up not only he fell over at the training but also was smelling alcohol in his breath along with having puffy eyes. Just before the evening of the match-day few of the Australian players had gone out to celebrate Shane Watson’s birthday but with Andrew Symonds further deciding to stay up late, the all-rounder had definitely boozed a lot more than his requirement. In fact, while coming at the breakfast with the same pair of clothes being worn last night, especially the coach of the team had already suspected Symonds in a drunken state.

However, with skipper Ponting just minutes before the toss had to ultimately drop Andrew Symonds from the playing XI while confronting him the all-rounder rather than being apologetic barely seemed to care about his omission. Hence in the end, with skipper Ricky Ponting also facing a humiliating defeat in the match against Bangladesh, all the above turn of events did fumingly made his blood boil.