There is a glitch in the matrix.
There isn’t supposed to be Victorians playing for Australia.
But this year, we had Brad Ego play in the Windies.
The Big Bear Cam White playing in this very series.
And now Peter Sizzle (Siddle) is in the test team.
How could this be?
Was there not a NSWelshman available every time?
Well yes actually, but Merv is on the case now, and that Moustache is getting the job done.
With Brad Hodge, Merv couldn’t take the credit, Brad has a test double century and was also a fair chance to be a back up batsman.
With Eyelids Pattinson he couldn’t really take credit, being that he played for England.
With Bryce McGain’s selection in the touring squad, Merv couldn’t take the credit because he was simply the best spinner in the country.
With the Big Bear’s selection he couldn’t take the credit, because the bear has been around for a long time, and has played for Australia before.
But with Peter Sizzle he can take the credit, bask in it, take a bath in it, pur it all over his nipples and smile about it for a very long time, because it’s all on him baby.
Everyone thought Doug Bollinger was the next in line to play for Australia.
Even he, he got his hair planted for just such an occasion.
He is the sort of man that trips over wickets getting out of bed, but the young woodchopping Dermot Brereton wannabe jumped the queue.
With a little help from a Victorian selector.
Peter Sizzle has only played 12 first class games, but if his bowling in the shield final didn’t win people over I don’t know what will.
I have never seen him not get wickets.
It’s like an illness for him.
The man eats up line and length, loves bowling the ‘heavy ball’ and when fit seems to be the sort of sick mother fucker who loves bowling masochistically long spells.
Jrod, from what I have seen of both, specially Sizzles performance in the BP XI game, its fair to say Bollinger should have got the call up. He did quite well in that A tour dint he?
The glitch in the matrix is Greg Chappell.
“He is the sort of man that trips over wickets getting out of bed” – Who, Siddle?In the Bangalore test there were a few incidents involving one of the subs of Australia (not sure if it was Siddle, having not watched him before). But this bloke was a first-rate klutz. His runs to the wicket from the boundary with the drinks always provided considerable mirth to the spectators. You would always expect something to happen during the runs and it did. On one occasion he tripped over the grass and spilled the entire contents of the ice-box on the grass. It was hilarious.