Queering the pitch for a side battle

Dr. Rudi Webster, renowned sports psychologist who has served West Indian cricket as director of the Shell Cricket Academy SCA, recently lambasted King for his alleged comments in which he described the players of the 1970s as 8220;dinosaurs8221;.

King since then has denied he ever made this remark claiming it was 8220;completely and totally inaccurate, an outright lie.8221;

It has now surfaced that it was Chappell who attributed the 8220;dinosaur8221; remark to King during a brief visit to the SCA in Grenada in 2004.

Chappell had then expressed his anger on King, stating that those with little playing background were calling the 8220;players of the 70s as old hat, that we8217;re dinosaurs, that we8217;ve got to move on.8221;

It would appear that the great Australian, with his inexhaustible capacity to attract controversy, has already prepared the pitch for a confrontation with the West Indian head coach much before the actual series gets underway next month.