Badger is a generic name applied to a fanatical follower of any sport or pastime and not, I believe confined solely to cricket. Difficult though, I believe, for a fanatic to be wholly objective when so keen for the team to do well. I'd certainly plead guilty to that shortcoming at times.Badger is a generic nickname for an elderly cricket fan. I used it well before I heard Scott Borthwick had been called that. I have several friends, up and down the country who are mad keen cricket fans and they call themselves "BADGERS".
You clearly are a keen cricket fan but you will have calm down and be more supportive of cricketers and cricket in general before we would call you a BADGER.
This Borthwick love-in equally lacks objectivity. How many No 3s would have survived the season intact with an aggregate of < 500 runs and an average in the low 20s. We even had one poster elevating his captaincy to the Benaud/Brearly level - that's hardly objective. Borthwick fully deserves his moniker Badger,he clearly loves his cricket but that shouldn't absolve him from criticism.