King Probot Michael Hussey has done something the selectors should have done a long time ago; he has sacked himself from cricket.
Sure he is calling it a retirement.
But we all know a good sacking when we see it.
He has said:
“I have struggled for a long time and I think this is the right time to go. I owe the guys better than what I am able to give them. I love playing cricket for Australia, but all good things must come to an end. My family has always been very important to me and it will be great to spend more time with them. Batting never came as easy to me as it did to others, but I am proud of what I achieved.”
Hussey leaves the game with a batting average of over 50, the final statistical anomaly we will ever get from him.
I have never been a huge fan, but he did make one of the best hundreds I have ever seen when Graeme Smith gave him boundary riders at the G and he and McGrath just batted as they pleased.
There are few people who love him or hate him, and this is what has always annoyed me about him. But when he was good he was better than you, and anyone you know.
When My grandkids say to me, “Grandpa Jrod, how good was Michael Hussey?” I will say something like this: He was a frenetic over achieving earnest bastard who proved the existence of the matrix for about 18 tests, and for the rest he was a nervous wreck with a legacy position that should have been dropped long before he retired. Now go get me an iBeer.
I think it is good test cricket has players like him, so that when the real class comes along we can see the difference.
But how many people strangled out their talent as well as M Hussey?
I respect him, even if he wasn’t my bag of skittles.
that average in the first 18 tests is what bothered me the most about him. likes of sach, lara and punter took years to solidify their numbers and this guy just waltzes in as if he is the second coming of bradman. i guess he made hay when test cricket was indeed poor and when in the last couple of seasons bowling attacks have improved, he has struggled. but no one ever tried harder. and he is a gentleman cricketer.
Could not find this story on Cricinfo, BBC or Google News? Did you beat them all to the scoop, or just pranking us?
When did he say this? Can’t find it anywhere else, so is this a CWB exclusive!
Why haven’t I read abt his retirement anywhere else?
Because, Q, Jrod just knows.
Hussey bounce back,
Screw you for getting me all excited Jrod. It’ll be at least another 20 years before the selectors even think of dropping him.
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This may happen, but I don’t see Hussey as the kind of self-serving tosser that would do it with an innings to go in the biggest game of his life. Now if you said it was Watson, I’d have believed you.