Australia has had real trouble with filling the massive shoes of Brett Geeves.
Brett Lee was overlooked.
Stuart Clark couldn’t make it on time.
So now the angry man harwood is going over.
Will Australia ever recover from the hole Geeves has created.
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Geeves leaves
See what I did there.
Anyway, Brett Geeves is going hoe, he has a broken foot.
Apparently Australia is sending over another bowler as cover.
With Douggie, Hilfy and Sizzle all injured or ‘resting’, who is actually left.
Maggoffin, Harwood, Drew, Cockley?
It’s getting slim.
Ofcourse they don’t really need to send anyone over, by the time who ever it is gets there, there will be one match to go.
Hardly worth the selectors chewing up their brain cells, or coughing up the cuple of grand to get someone over there.
Oh wait, someone is already there, he went over to ‘train’ with the players, so they remembered he was alive.
Brett Lee I think his name is.
Is it a coincidence he went over to train with the boys, and Geeves gets injured.
Ofcourse not.
Geeves foot was probably broken when Lee dropped a box of biltong on it, Tonya style.
Don’t get in the way of Brett Lee and an Australian place, or an Indian sponsorship.
Blogger goes on tour
Not me, shame.
But Brett Geeves.
Douggie Bollinger has injured himself in a nasty incident involving Ricky Ponting’s bat cone.
He won’t be fit for the next match, and may not be for the last one.
So Brett Geeves is heading over.
His 6/47 against the Vics probably helped.
Your welcome Brett.
He has 37 wickets at 23 this season, and has been bowling pretty well.
Plus matching 99*s.
His selection ahead of Magoffin, Dorey and Nannes shows a change in selectorial bias.
The selectors are now looking towards the future more and more, and it seems, towards anyone who can roughly be called an allrounder.
Except Ashley Noffke, he is just ignored, you can kill yourself now Ashley.
Nathan Bracken just wishes he could bat.
And that someone in charge would trust him with a red ball.
Geeves speaks
Recently Brett Geeves mad his second 99* of the season, both times the same batsman went out on him.
Since then I have been waiting for his “blog” to give us all the details.
Well here is some of it,
The Guy who used to be your friend…
p.s. Pass on my best to Adelle, it’s not her fault you’re hopeless.”
I thought his other post was far better, it had anger and piss taking, this seems like he was trying to out do the first one in the humour stakes, but that he didn’t quite feel the rage of the previous one.
Although I have probably been guilty of that more than once.
Sucks to be Geeves
Imagine how bad it would be to make 99 not out.
I had a friend who did so at 15, as far as I know he never when on to make a hundred.
He can wax lyrically about the “leg bye” off the last ball that believes went three quarters of the way to the backward square leg boundary.
Well Brett Geeves has a way better story than that.
Twice in one season he has been left on 99 not out for Tasmania, and both times by the same batsman.
Tim MacDonald is this useless number 11’s name.
And this is what Geeves said in his “blog” about the first issue.
Brett Geeves is only 26 years old, but right now he would be excused for thinking he will never make a first class hundred, and also for thinking that having a trophy made of Tim MacDonald’s balls.
We can only hope he blogs about this betrayal as well.
And that he says clucking bell.
Andy Bichel is still a Twat, and so is Brad Hodge
“You think, ‘What’s going on here?’ Even Brett Geeves getting a game against Bangladesh… it should have been Ashley Noffke. It’s just mind-blowing.” Andy Bichel
I have never liked Andy Bichel, his face offends me.
But this is nonsense.
Ashley Noffke had an ordinary domestic one day summer, Brett Geeves was off the chart.
Andy Bichel is so old that perhaps his sight has departed him.
I have already grudgingly admitted the Noffke should have gone to India ahead of Siddle, but that was test cricket.
Bichel didn’t attack Siddle though, which is strange, usually he loves taking a dip at Victorians, instead he went Brett Geeves who has never hurt anyone and has a cool hair cut.
He is also not biased at all in this decision, being Noffke’s team mate for the last 10 years.
“Unfortunately I don’t select any sides, certainly not the Australian side, otherwise I’d be over there now.” Brad Hodge
Talking about people without bias, Brad Hodge would pick himself.
Aheada of who I am not sure.
Hodge had an ordinary shield season last year.
Take away his triple hundred against the Queensland bowlers who were all injured, and the decent half century against NSWales in the final, Hodge underperformed.
Simon Katich made a kabillion runs.
Shane Watson is an all rounder.
So why does Brad Hodge believe he should be in the squad ahead of either one of them.
Hodgey, just once would you think before you speak.
Bangladesh less important than Underpants
Brett Lee is missing the upcoming series against Bangladesh due to family reasons.
But his new underwear line goes ahead unabated.
To be an Australia cricketer these days you need to be able to say no to touring, even if the tour is only in Darwin.
Darwin is not safe this time of year, those crocodiles are jihadists, or reptiles, I always get those two confused.
Who cares about Lee though, I’ve seen him.
You know who I haven’t seen play for Australia.
Brett Geeves.
Best hair in the business.
Also there isn’t alot of changes that need to be placed on the team sheet, they are both named Brett, and both have multiples e’s in their surname.
And good to see a Tasmanian in the side, the last a Tasmanian played for Australia was Shaun Young.
Since then, not one.
True story.
select this
The Australian 30 man squad for the ICC show me the money Knockout cup is out.
30 man squads are a waste of column inches.
So let me waste a few inches.
After years of producing less Australian cricketers the certain grade clubs in Sydney and Melbourne, suddenly Tasmania is a force.
The smiling George Bailey, Brett Geeves and his terrific hair cut, the stutter stepping Xavier Doherty, and the entomologist Tim Paine.
If you count Ricky Ponting (which I don’t) that means 5 of the top 30 one day cricketers in the country are from Tasmania.
Quite an effort.
None of these 4 newcomers are anywhere near playing for Australia, but are all very good cricketers.
Even if they are Tasmanians.
So it got me thinking, if the squad for Pakistan (assuming Australia go) will end up being this, give or take.
Ponting, Clarke, Marsh, Watson, Hussey, Hayden, Symonds, Haddin, Hopes, Lee, Bracken, Clark, Johnson, White, Hussey.
So I thought I would pick a second 15 from those who will probably miss out.
Luke Ronchi, wicket keeper and gun opener. Ask the Windies and the Mumbai Indian net bowlers.
Tim Paine, back up wicket keeper, and excellent opening batsman. Ronchi brings the fire works and he brings the class.
Brad Hodge, occasionally I bag Brad Hodge, but he is the second best number batsman in Australia, which makes him one of the best batsmen in the world.
Adam Voges, Vice Captain, has played for Australia before and in England would be a very fine middle order batsman.
George Bailey, smiles a lot, probably because he knows he can bat well, had an ordinary year, but I predict big things from his selection in my second XI.
Dan Marsh, best Tasmanian captain in Australia, still makes runs, still takes wickets, and still is a fat fucker.
Ashley Noffke, his one day form is generally ordinary, but if he can average 50 with the bat in shield cricket I am happy with him at 7, bowling first change, or whenever wickets are needed.
Ryan Harris, the big fella with shoulders made of granite, needed big shoulders from all his carrying of South Australia,
Brett Geeves, the quickie from Tasmania, not a bad guy to have coming in at 9 either.
Xavier Doherty, I would pick stutter step over Cullen, and Hauritz, a wicket taker who can bowl left arm orthodox at the death, handy to have.
Shaun Tait, from memory, before his “exhaustion” took a few wickets in a world cup.
Brendan Drew, 12th dude, bowls quick, and doesn’t mind the odd long hard hit.
Squad members.
Bryce McGain, leading ford ranger wicket taker, and also another old head around the change room.
Dan Christian, project player, averaged 44 with the bat this year and bowls quicker than Stuart Clark, and about one millionth as straight or well.
Andrew McDonald, quiet year this year, but was in the 30 man squad for the world cup, and is one of those rare all rounders that takes wickets and makes runs regularly.
Would be interesting to see where it would come in the ICC knock out.
This team would never be picked though, way too many guys under 30 in it, and only two NSWelshman, who now play for other states.
Apologies to Dirty Dirk, Theo Doropolous, Mark Cosgrove, Aaron Heal and Douggie Bollinger.
the slide
Recently much has been made of Australia’s slide.
Most of this is because of Stuart MacGill’s new found ability not to land his leg break.
Also Mitchell Johnson and his line 3 foot wide of off stump.
Plus their sick reliance on Matthew Hayden.
And let us not forget Michael Clarke’s dodgy form in pressure situations.
I wrote this recently, and this, ages ago.
But, in how many countries would a player like Shaun Marsh not be good enough to be picked in their top 8 batsmen.
And realistically, David Hussey would still be ahead of him on the list, so Marsh may not even be in Australia’s top 9 batsman.
We the people, all know this is rubbish, and that he should be currently preparing to open for Australia ahead of the krab katich.
Or at least be carrying the drinks and trying some rum instead of Brad Hodge.
But it does show the amazing depth that Australia still has, even without the champions at the top.
Shane Watson is probably the best performed player in the IPL, if Marsh isn’t, and he is not in Australia’s one day squad.
Both David Hussey and Luke Pomersbach have been less dominant than Marsh and Watson, but they have both payed innings that have showed they belong.
You may ask where are the young Australian bowlers.
Well Brett Geeves got spanked every time he got a gig.
And almost every other young Australian bowler is a physical basket case, but Peter Sizzle (Siddle), and Douggie Bollinger take wickets on one leg.
But Marsh still stands out. Not just because of the runs he has made, or the strike rate he has maintained, but because he hasn’t slogged.
He has kept his technique, and he has batted like a serious batsman type batsman, which means he may turn out to be a real player on the international circuit.
Want more than IPL proof, well the English sports writers are already worried about him for the Ashes.
Ok the English are always worried about the Ashes, but in Marsh, they have just cause.
And by 2013 Shaun’s little brother Mitchell will be in England, probably batting at number 3.
Cricket With Balls, monitoring the demise of Australia one MacGill long hop at a time.
The Victorian home for broken down tassie quicks
In uninteresting to anyone other than ma, and 4 others news, Tasmanian fast bowlers are playing some sort of sick game with Victoria.
First Gerard Denton comes to Victoria, and in the three games he is fit he takes like 80 wickets.
Then he retires.
Only to then un-retire and sign back with Tasmania.
Then his former Tasmanian new ball partner, the also always injured Damien Wright signs with Victoria.
Is there some Tasmanian fast bowling rehabilitation plan going on in Victoria at the moment?
Is Ben Hilfenhaus next.
Why Victoria need near crippled Tasmanian bowlers is beyond me.
Peter Sizzle, Dirty Dirk, Crazy Clint Mackay, and Eyelids seem like a good roster to me.
And none of them are in any danger of playing for Australia.
Should Victoria continue to take the tassie quicks, can we make requests, cause I really like Brett Geeves.
I don’t care if he has been rubbish in the IPL.
