For players, who have a successful career, it is always a tough task to live up to the reputation they have acquired if they have to sit out of the team on one count or the other. It is owing to the fat that the nature of invincibility that they tend to built around themselves, on account of their performances lies in tatters either through the physical frailty or controversies. Andrew Symonds is a prime example of this kind, whose career seems to have been tethered to controversies and is not taking of at all.

After being dropped from the squad of Australia for the tour to South Africa. Symonds was trying to make a come back through the Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and South Australia at Adelaide Oval yesterday but his efforts were hampered as he was forced to remain off the field with a sore knee.

Symonds had bowled only two over before lunch and had picked up the wicket of Michael Klinger for figures of 1/3, but did not return back to the field after the interval. It was found that he was sitting in the dressing room with an icepack strapped to his right knee, the same one on which he had surgery on New Year's Eve. It was later confirmed by a spokesman from c that Symonds was indeed experiencing soreness in his right knee. Queensland management was still hopeful that Symonds could be in a position to take the field in the later stages of the match.

It was only the second match in which Symonds was making his appearance after being unceremoniously dumped out from the Australian squad on disciplinary grounds, and his efforts to let his performance speak for himself and clear the blot on his name on account of his off-field antics is coming unstuck.

Symonds, who was playing only in his second match after being ruled out Australia's upcoming South Africa tour on disciplinary issues, had been experiencing a torrid time this summer because of his off-field run-ins with controversies. Cricket Australia has taken a tough stand against Symonds and has informed him in no uncertain terms that he would not get any grace on account of his past performance, but his performance would be put under scanner and a view would only be taken after the end of the current domestic season.

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