Thanks Ricky …

A great batsman retires.

Australia’s most prolific run scorer in tests (160 of them) and one day internationals (370 of them).  He is one of only three players in history to have scored 13,000 Test runs. It is well known that he worked damn hard at his craft.

Thanks, Punter, for the entertainment.

A decent citizen …

A man who had been running a successful painting business, was killed by police on September 29 last year after a confrontation with two men in Castle Hill, NSW, during which he produced a loaded Glock pistol.

Deputy State Coroner Hugh Dillon said Mr El Kass, a skilled AFL player who competed at a first-grade level in Sydney after his family relocated from Melbourne, was “not a gangster” and his death raised “troubling questions”.

“This is undoubtably a tragedy … he was a decent citizen, who lived quietly without causing trouble,” he said.

I guess Mr El Kass and his loaded Glock pistol were just very misunderstood.