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Nel’s dinner date for Cook
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ASIANAGE on 31 July, 2008 01:34:23
 
It was the strangest dinner appointment even if it was one made between former
county mates. There is perhaps no fiercer adversary on the field than the South
African fast bowler Andre Nel who also lets the batsmen know it. And Cook, who
had dreaded getting out to him, had to face just that ignominy in the third
Test. Whether the invitation extended to 'Gunther', the comic book alter ego
about whom Nel spoke a lot on tour, is not known. Even by his exuberatn
standards, Nel's celebration on getting Cook out was way beyond normal. But, as
the man himself explained, "Maybe I celebrated too much, but we're going out to
dinner, so we'll have a few beers." A free reign to 'Gunther', the
oxygen-starved figure of fiction, was very active when Nel bowled with fire in
the Test.