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Australia honours Waugh in Queen’s Birthday list

By Greg Buckle

MELBOURNE, June 9, 2003 (Reuters)

Australia’s test captain Steve Waugh and former West Indies skipper Garfield Sobers received Order of Australia awards in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list published on Monday.

Both were made Officers in the General Division (AO) of the Order of Australia for services to cricket and the community.

Waugh, who says he is “just an ordinary bloke”, has guided his side to the number one spot in the test rankings and was at the helm for a world record 16 consecutive wins which ended in March 2001 with a defeat by India in Calcutta.

The Australian batsman has also been active in charity work for young girls from under-privileged backgrounds in Calcutta.

“I guess this award is in part recognition for what I’ve tried to do in India but really other people do much more than me,” Waugh told reporters.

"I’m a little embarrassed by it all, to be honest, but it is nice that this is part of the recognition that has been given to me and it is nice for cricket.

“I don’t see myself as being any different to anybody else,” added Waugh, who grew up in Bankstown in Sydney’s south-west.

“It’s only a sport and people do tend to forget that.”

WORLD RECORD

Earlier this year he resisted calls for his retirement with centuries against England and West Indies.

Waugh also equalled former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd’s world record of 36 test wins as skipper as Australia scored a 3-1 victory in last month’s test series in the Caribbean.

The 38-year-old captained Australia to victory in the 1999 World Cup but was dropped from the one-day side last year. He is the second-highest scorer in test cricket with 10,265 runs at an average of 49.83 in a world record total of 160 matches.

Sobers, the finest all-rounder in cricket history, played for South Australia in the 1960s and retains Australian citizenship through marriage.

The 66-year-old played 93 tests and scored 8,032 runs at 57.78 including a highest score of 365 not out, bettered only by West Indies captain Brian Lara’s 375 against England in 1994.

Left-armer Sobers, who could bowl spin and fast-medium, also took 235 wickets at 34.03.

Former International Cricket Council chief executive David Richards and former Australia test players Norm O’Neill and Peter Philpott were honoured with medals in the General Division (OAM).

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what you talk? Sobers play for W.Indies ...why report saying for S.Austrilia? blah forsooth! they have county in Austrila also?

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I think Waugh deserved it, about time someone appreciates it at that level. He has done wonders for Australian cricket. Sobers, well a lot of have been said about him. The best allrounder of all time. Good choice.

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The person who really deserves this is Wasim Akram and I don't need to say why. :)

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*Originally posted by PakistaniAngel: *
The person who really deserves this is Wasim Akram and I don't need to say why. :)
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The western media has always been like that. If you talk about all the deserving people names like Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Kapil Dev, Arvinda DeSilva and many others will come to mind. The choices they made Waugh and Sobers are not wrong, its just that they have chosen to forget about the South Asian cricketers.

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*Originally posted by LahoriMunda: *

The western media has always been like that. If you talk about all the deserving people names like Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Imran Khan, Javed Miandad, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Kapil Dev, Arvinda DeSilva and many others will come to mind. The choices they made Waugh and Sobers are not wrong, its just that they have chosen to forget about the South Asian cricketers.
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I didn't know Australia was in the west.

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Slave mentality of Desis - Wasim Akram, Gavaskar, Imran, Miandad etc dont need an order or Knighthood from british empire to prove their greatness.

Hey Nasir Hussain has an order of British Empire and tomorrow he might get a knighthood, I will be really embarrased If I ever see Gavaskar, Akram, Imran etc in that list.

If you are so hurt then instead of blaming western countries , look into your own home first and see what national honor Wasim Akram, Javed Miandad etc have got.

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*Originally posted by Asif_k: *
Slave mentality of Desis - Wasim Akram, Gavaskar, Imran, Miandad etc dont need an order or Knighthood from british empire to prove their greatness.

Hey Nasir Hussain has an order of British Empire and tomorrow he might get a knighthood, I will be really embarrased If I ever see Gavaskar, Akram, Imran etc in that list.

If you are so hurt then instead of blaming western countries , look into your own home first and see what national honor Wasim Akram, Javed Miandad etc have got.
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Dead Right man..
I have to say that I agree with you ( for the first and may be the last ) ;)

waissay when did Sobers play for SA.. I really think he only played for the WI's...
He honored Brian Charles Lara when he passed 365 by coming to the ground to the pitch...

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Lahore main Australia west main hee hotaa hai, samjhaa karoo naa bhayee :rotfl:

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*Originally posted by UMAIR316: *
I didn't know Australia was in the west.
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I never said Australi is in the west all I said was the wester media has always been like what the Australians did this time.

As for what have we done for oue greats. Well dude, plenty... trust me maybe nothing at the government level but the ordinary man has done more then enough. The love and respect that the greats mentioned above enjoyed is much bigger then any medal. Imran was able to build a cancer hospital because of the love and respect he earned playing cricket. A lot of money was given to him by people on the streets. That is a huge achievement.

I did not say I was hurt that Imran, Wasim etc didnt get it, I was only replying to the point raised by Pakistani Angel who said Wasim deserved it and I was making out the point that along with Wasim there are plenty of other people who deserve it too.

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Waugh deserves it:k:…