‘Sex’, ‘bondage’, Oz cricketers slip up

Clearly the minds of Australian cricketers are elsewhere as they prepare to take on New Zealand in the first Twenty20 international tomorrow night. The Australian coach said "We haven't had a lot of sex..."

"Sex, um, success" and "footage of bondage...ahmm, Bondy" —Australian cricketers started their tour of New Zealand with two verbal slips. They are here to play a series of Twenty20 international matches.

Coach Tim Nielsen on arrival Wednesday said: “We haven’t had a lot of sex, um, success over here.” On Thursday, it was vice-captain Michael Clarke who got tongue-tied, New Zealand Herald reported.

When questioned about paceman Shane Bond, Clarke said he featured high on their game plan. “We’ll have a good look at footage of bondage... ahmm, Bondy,” said Clarke, amid chuckles. “Geez I feel like the coach, what’s going on,” Clarke continued with a grin.

He tried to get through the sentence again, concentrating hard on cleaning it up. “We’ll have a good look at footage of Shane Bond. But yeah he has got a lot of class,” Clarke said, joking as he left that he could just imagine what the front-pages of newspapers would look like after an accidental comment like that.