Oh I’m fu©king pissed off right now.
Beau fu©king Casson.
Fu©king New South Wales does it again.
Who the fu©k is Beau Casson you may ask.
Well he was a Western Australian who got snatched by New South Wales and obviously got told if he came to New South Wales all his fears of never playing for Australia would evaporate.
The touring squad of the West Indies has been selected and Beau Casson’s baggy green can be taken out of the brown paper bag.
Bryce McGain’s baggy green remains as real as the moon landing or Pamela Anderson’s breasts.
According to Andrew Hilditch, chief selector of New South Wales & Australia, “We have taken the opportunity to take a young spinner and by far the best performed of these during the Australian summer has been Beau Casson.”
What he means is, we aren’t taking Bryce McGain, because he is a, too old, b, too victorian and c, a talented and proven cricketer.
Lets take the bloke who bowled on a spinners paradise all year and still ended up with 9 less wickets than McGain and with a worse average.
And that doesn’t even take into account that Casson picked up a 4 wicket haul when the Vics were making a reckless play for glory on the 5th day crumbler at the SCG.
That was the day Dirty Dirk smashed him around.
Of course he is the best young spinner in the country, because there simply are no others.
But mid way thorough the year he couldn’t buy a wicket with a stolen credit card.
And don’t you dare mention his batting Andrew. Someone who bats like him is not a test match allrounder, at best he is a Hoggard/Gillespie tail ender at this stage.
Suddenly the Australia selectors are worrying about the age of cricketers, suddenly they don’t want the second best spinner, but the spinner who is younger.
So does this mean they have changed their selection policies again?
Weren’t they picking the best cricketers regardless of age when Clark, Hodge and Hussey were picked?
Do they have selection policies?
Is there a website I can click onto that says, CA Selection policy, download here for pdf, or click here if you want them written in Goats blood on your dogs corpse.
I personally had high hopes for Beau Casson when he was a youngster, but having seen him bowl some horrible spells and some benign spells this year, in person, in the very same game Bryce took 5 for against a better batting line up, there is simply no question who the better bowler is right now.
If we choose to play two spinners in the West Indies, then the second spinner cannot be a project player, he must be a test match strength spinner, and right now, for this tour, Bryce is the better option.
He puts pressure on batsmen, he rarely bowls bad balls, and he gets the very best batsmen out.
Plus he almost single handedly won Victoria the Ford Ranger cup with a spell of bowling that had Bill Lawry Pigeon’s looking very nervous.
But I’m not biased at all.
gee relief to know selectors are pig headed on a global basis.. U JROD i had heard of this NSW basis on a off and on basis but this selection defies f@cking logic.. if age is the primary concern let stuey macgill open his wine bar and lets get some more kids in.. baffling decision
If he was called John Smith he wouldn’t have been picked.But with a name like Beau Casson he could play for the Windies.
when Stuey goes to the great Wolfblass tasting in the sky I’m sure there’ll be a spot for Bryce at NSW, then he’ll get a shot for the Baggy Blue-Greens.I can kind of empathise with you, I mean if it were the other way round I’d be ropeable. But can you really say that the reason Jaques, Kattich, Clarke, Haddin, Lee, Clark, Macgill and now Casson are of international quality is cause they were given the opportunity and have improved on the big stage, or are we in NSW just f’ucking talented?
“Discussing the selection of two spinners for the Test component of the West Indies tour, Hilditch said: “We have recalled Stuart MacGill after his recovery from injury. Stuart looked very fit during the Pura Cup final and performed to a high level. We think he will play an important role during the series and believe a player with 200 Test wickets will have a significant impact.”“We have also taken the opportunity to take a young spinner and by far the best performed of these during the Australian summer has been Beau Casson. His efforts with both bat and ball have been very good over the past season and we look forward to watching his development during the course of the tour.””I suppose what he might be trying to say is that there’s room for one experienced spinner and for one understudy. This is a West Indies tour, I doubt we’ll select two spinners in the same game (or have their pitches gone to sh1t?), so they’re looking to the future to bring along a warhorse and an understudy. There’s no point bring along two old ducks – when Macgilla breaks down/retires Bryce is just as likely to be pushing round a walking frame.Would be fair to say that Macgilla and the Facebook kid were vying for the same position – that of experienced leggie. If you’re going to choose an old warhorse might as well get one who’se also experienced.
Sri Lanka took two spinners into the last test, and the west indies actually took one, so i’d say spinners are very much needed there. Regardless of grooming spinners, I do not believe Beau Casson is a test match quality player. Even if he does have a better than average name.
I’m with you here. Casson’s had four very mediocre seasons, and they’ve picked him on the basis of four matches. Sounds a lot more like luck than talent to me.
On a brighter note, David Hussey made it into the ODI side. He’s lost a bet I believe and ur petition has paid off.I have congratulated u on ur efforts to get David Hussey into office publicly on Well Pitched :-)
I was kinda hoping we’d be entering a 4-pronged pace attack phase, since we finally got Warne out of the team. I’d much rather see Tait get smashed around the ground than Casson. At least Tait can retaliate with bouncers. What will Casson do? Toss one up on a good length? Intimidation factor to the max.
What kind of a frigging name is Beau anyway?I thought you Aussies were a rough-edged but egalitarian breed. Turns out you’re picking camp-named no-marks over superior cricketers. Some equality. Some rough edge.It’s almost enough to make me want to stay in England. Almost.
I’m with King Cricket here… Maybe it’s an English thing. But you need players with good solid names, like Kevin, Andrew or Ian. Even Bob.Not gay Beau!First class bowling average of over 40.. I was going to say that, that shouldn’t worry any test match quality players. Then I remembered you’re touring the Windies, and they’ve only got three test match quality players.Sulieman Benn averages low 20′s in their first class, and he’s the almighty shit.It’s probably come down to the fact that Nice Bryce has to look after his little fella, so there’s no point sending him half way across the world to carry the drinks.
That just about tops it!!! I can hardly believe it!!! I’ve been telling you and big Daddy for years that Hohns and Hilditch are w@nkers of Andrew Demitriou proportions.Somewhere, Darrel Hair will be smiling, or mega pissed, hard to tell which, in the knowledge that he isn’t alone in the ‘world is not enough’ mentality stakes. Attention seakers of the highest order, picking guys from nowhere, just to get their names mentioned in every cricketing publications 50/50 column.Surely Shane Watson made the team?
This must be annoying people if it made Sime actually comment on the blog he supposedly writes for.