Timmy Mallet told Cricket AM he would love to give Ricky Ponting and co. a good malletting!
Timmy and Pinky Punky have Aussies in their sight
Timmy Mallett burst into the
Cricket AM studio on Saturday and revealed he would like to smack the entire Australian cricket team 'into kingdom come because they need a bit of a malletting!"
The former children's TV presenter, who once bashed Margaret Thatcher over the head with his giant foam mallet, said he had been gripped by Ashes fever this summer, even if he had been praying for rain since the start.
"It's so exciting when the Ashes start," he told
Cricket AM. "It's really thrilling until about ten minutes into the game and the first wicket falls! Then you're like 'oh no it's going to be this again, we've got five more days like this, please let it rain!'"
Sportsmanship
Mallett, who became a household name during the late '80s on TV-am, picked out Andrew Flintoff's sportsmanship during the 2005 Edgbaston Test as one of his favourite Ashes moments.
But admitted he still had nightmares about England's dramatic loss in Adelaide in 2006.
"When we won the Edgbaston Test and Freddie Flintoff, in the jubilation of winning the match, goes to console Brett Lee - I just thought that had sportsmanship written all over it.
"The passion (the Ashes) evokes is just incredible. Winning is everything and losing is just so terrible.
"Like when we lost the Test in Adelaide, I mean how did that happen? How do you snatch defeat from the jaws of certain victory? How does that happen?"
Bowl
As well as being an avid spectator of the sport, Mallett told Simon and Sarah-Jane that he was more than happy to get his whites on and bowl a few overs, even if it means getting smacked around the park!
"If I get asked to play I do quite like playing," he said. "We have a village cricket tournament where I live and it's called the Colonel Garrett Cup. It's pub teams and club teams and I'm part of the Cookham Wanderers.
"We put this team in and we were up against Malik's restaurant who are really rather good. We didn't realise this though until it came to playing against them when all of their chef's and front of house staff turned out to be Bangladeshi internationals!
"I put a nice bit of spin on my first ball and then thwack, it goes for six! And every single one went for six!"
