Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott hosted the Indian and Australian teams for afternoon tea at his official residence on Thursday to mark the beginning of the New Year.
Injecting some humour into the Test series which has been marked by aggression, Abbott said that his own main strength as a cricketer was sledging.
Abbott talked about his time as a cricketer when he was a student at Oxford University. Abbott was captain of Oxford’s Middle Common Room team of the Queen’s College – mainly because he could perform a mean sledge, he joked.
“I couldn’t bat, I couldn’t bowl, I couldn’t field, but I could sledge, and I think I held my place in the team on this basis, and I promise there’ll be none of that today,” the Australian Prime Minister said.
By: BCCI
