cricket with balls

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.