So use it, for chrissakes.
How many more times in this series are we going to see a batsman leave a ball alone and then watch as it clatters into the stumps? Especially to their first ball. Yes, I’m looking at you, Hussey and you, Johnson.
The very name ‘batsman’ implies that it might just, occasionally, behove you to use the freaking bat.
It is no coincidence that, KP being brilliantly set up by Hospitalpass aside, every player who has made an idiot of themselves doing this has been lefthanded. Now, if you bat lefthanded, there are two things that are a given – rough outside your off stump and a majority of balls slanting across you. If, by the time you get to international level, you’ve not sussed out that focussing on a ball coming across your body is going to make it hard to tell where your off stump is then, frankly, you’re not very bright at all.
When they next send Braddin for a scan on his fingers, it might be an idea to get Hussey, Johnson, North and the others brain scanned as well – cos things are looking like they might be a little empty in there.
Bet Rudi has a left-hander’s brain.
Johnson actually looked like a bowler this evening. It was very encouraging signs for him, even if that goose Rudi doesn’t ‘do’ plumb LBWs.
Hussey is starting to seriously wind me up.