Andrew Symonds asked Cricket Australia for a pay cut so he could spend more time fishing

Andrew Symonds once offered to take a pay cut from Cricket Australia so he could spend more time fishing, and less corporate appearances.

‘As someone said to me yesterday, he’d have been perfect in the 1970s or 80s, you know, when he could really kick it around off the field,’Courier Mail journalist Robert Craddock told Nova’s Fitzy and Wippa on Monday.

‘But he felt that spirit was lost in the game.

‘And it was so important to him because he was never materialistic. So long as he had a tinnie, a fishing rod, a crab pot and a cold beer, that was all he wanted.

‘Matthew Hayden was furious until he sent him a photo with a barramundi that he’d caught with the tagline, ‘Hey mate, look what you’ve missed by going to that meeting’.’

More to come.