Ed Cowan told twitter it came out of the footmarks and gave him wood.
Jimmy Maxwell said it hit a crack and was a work in progress.
Terry Jenner informed Australia it was chucking and against the law in his book.
And AGB questions if the selectors will pick someone who bowls it.
All of this because Australia’s off spinning back up, Jason Krezja, got one to go the other way.
About 12 people have seen this ball (it was during a shield game), but it has stirred up some emotion already.
Not be left behind, Nathan Hauritz has jumped on the doosra bandwagon, saying he has one, but he is afraid to use it. Strong words, Nathan.
Bryce McGain doesn’t have one, but he did take 7 wickets for 92 runs in his last first class game and I haven’t stopped smiling since.
Aaron O’Brien probably doesn’t have one, but no one knows who he is anyway.
Marcus North doesn’t care. He is a batsman.
This time last year I was writing about how you’d be better off trying to survive a zombie attack than trying to pick an aussie spinner.
Now there is little Nathan defying logic and common sense, Krezja has a mystery ball, McGain is fit, and O’Brien is taking wickets and making runs.
Four of the top ten wicket takers in first class cricket this year are spinners, last year at this stage there were none, and that doesn’t even count little Nathan, Cullen Bailey or Jon Holland.
Oh baby, Australia is spinning again, both ways.
Australia may not be the spinning wasteland it was, there are options, all rounders, wrist spinners, and now one of their spinners has dabbled in voodoo.
The selectors NSP are even going to use little Nathan at the gabbatoir, even if he doesn’t believe in his doosra yet.
It is like the Oval never happened.
