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GYXU > Cricket > Michael Slater: I felt that every day I was going to die. Every day was my last day 24 March 2005 06:08:52
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Michael Slater: I felt that every day I was going to die. Every day was my last day

CiL 20 March 2005 14:52:29
 
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ANDREW DENTON: So at this time, around the time of that incident, as I
said, things started to unravel, and the separation from Stephanie.
You were seen in a lot of nightclubs around Sydney, and you were
getting a reputation. There were some vicious things being said. That
you were doing drugs, that you were womanising, that you were hitting
the drink. Were you aware of the reputation you were getting at the
time?

MICHAEL SLATER: Yeah. Like, I was very quickly aware of what was going
on. And it was very...I was going to say distressing. But it was more
than distressing. It was...it was... Well, I think, or hopefully it
will be the worst period of my life. There was so much going on around
that Alan Border time. I mean it wasn't...it wasn't just the...the
marriage split, which is... the hardest decision in my life. Then,
very quickly after that was the drug allegations. I was pulled aside
the day before we went on that Indian tour by Malcolm Speed, who
basically said, "We've been told from a reliable source you've got a
serious drug problem."
---------------
......

NDREW DENTON: Something else that struck me, Michael. I asked before
about it being a lonely game. Shane Warne, in his autobiography, talks
about a game between Victoria and NSW where he and Darren Berry
started sledging you when you were batting. Do you remember what they
said?

MICHAEL SLATER: They just started doing this tick, tock, tick, tock,
tick, tock...

ANDREW DENTON: Taking it turns - tick, tock.

MICHAEL SLATER: Yeah, yeah. This went on for overs. And I knew what
they were getting at. They just thought I was a time bomb waiting to
explode.

ANDREW DENTON: These were, as you said, your friends, and they were
using your vulnerability to try and unsettle you, to try and bring you
down. Was this a culture... is this a culture where you simply can't
show any weakness?

MICHAEL SLATER: Yeah. I was not good at that, though. They'd
eventually wear me down. I was just too much of a heart-on-my-sleeve
sort of person and too sensitive, and I - and I still say today that
through the... You know, as difficult as the ending of my career was,
I was...I wish I'd been stronger.


Read the entire transcript at

http://www.abc.net.­au/tv/enoughrope/tra­nscripts/s1323968.ht­m


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RodP 20 March 2005 23:27:11 [ permanent link ]
 In article <mvkq31p9nikdai8f6d­rm2jcg5vid9sruo5@4ax­.com>,
CiL says...
Read the entire transcript at >
http://www.abc.net.­au/tv/enoughrope/tra­nscripts/s1323968.ht­m

I watched that show last week. Very good insight into Slats. You start
to understand what frame of mind he was in being dropped from the Aus
team and then giving it to a cameraman after he was felled by a boncer.

Cheers,
Rod.
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CiL 24 March 2005 06:08:52 [ permanent link ]
 
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...Michael Slater was a successful and senior member during the early
years of Waugh's captaincy, but while his team-mates were looking for
flaws in their rivals, Slater was experiencing problems with a pattern
that was last year diagnosed as bipolar disorder. His behaviour
started taking noticeable turns in 2000 and over the next year his
actions created much publicity but received little help. Team-mates
turned from him, and professional assistance was too far away.

Slater this week revealed he suffered from the manic depressive
disease, which causes large mood swings, and was worried about how his
announcement would be received. The threat of admitting weakness has
lasted much longer than his playing days. Society says injury-induced
retirees are glorified; those with sick minds are signed off as
nutcases.

"Are people going to think I'm a fruit loop," he asked Enough Rope's
Andrew Denton as he shared his secret. Twenty percent of Australians
experience some sort of mental illness, yet an opening batsman who
thrilled and spilled in a Test career of 71 Tests, scoring 5312 runs
at 42.83, was more cautious – scared even – than facing Ambrose and
Walsh at their fastest.

The sad case of Slater, who believes the disorder was a by-product of
the spinal disease Ankylosing Spondylitis afflicting him since he was
at the Cricket Academy, highlights a disturbing cricketing anomaly.
The mind is a player's greatest weapon but maintenance and repairs are
generally left to the individual.

Why don't teams tour with psychologists?

read on at
http://www.cricinfo­.com/link_to_databas­e/ARCHIVE/CRICKET_NE­WS/2005/MAR/208084_A­US_17MAR2005.html


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