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Dear Mark Waugh,

Occasionally at the balls we get given a post written by cricketers or officials. We posted a few of them a while back under the name of the omitted. Since then we have received heaps more, but in general they are either something that will get us sued, or weird. But of recent times we have have received one, and as it appears to be a letter, we thought it would be rude not to share it with Mr Waugh. Obviously, we will never reveal the name of the person who wrote this.

Dear Mark Waugh,

Please stop all this Steve Smith dribble.

Yes, the boy has some ability.

Yes, he has cleared the boundary in a few big bash and One day games.

Yes, he turns his leg break and warney reckons he ok.

Yes, he looks like the retarded 12 year old love child of a seminal mix from Cameron “downsyndrome” White and his fat NSW team mate with the same surname.

Yes, he has only taken 11 wickets at 75 and made 1 hundred in first class cricket… oh, whoops… not sure if you knew that one. You tool.

But I do see some reasoning behind your push to see this pubescent Sydney-sider in a baggy green. There is after all only 6 blue-baggers in the current Australian test side, 7 if you count Ponting, which you should because his wife refuses to grant him permission to visit the Apple isle for anything paying less than a test match.

This number of players from New South Wales is clearly nowhere near enough, is it, Mark. As we all know the blues have been the benchmark of the competition for the last few years. Get some more of them in there please Andrew Hilditch. Oh… that’s right, you’ve tried to. Lets revisit a few of these:

Phil Hughes – Fair enough the kid can play, but it is a statistical fact that he has never scored a run on the leg side. EVER! Its true. Look it up. He also still has stains in his dacks form the last bloke who decided to bump him at more than 140km/h.

Phil Jaques – Scored a few runs at test level, and probably deserves another crack, but no one wants to watch the fucker bat. He is uglier than Kim Clijsters. And he throws like a 60-year-old woman.

Beau Casson – good tour of the west indies but seems to have forgotten how to bowl. Did do himself the honour of no-balling himself out of the game by bowling too many full bungers on one occasion though.

Burt Cockley – Please… even Big burt was offended with his call-up. Bowls a mean half-volley.

So Junior, please do us a favour and stop pumping up yet another NSW player. In-fact, you could go one step further, and after brushing, rinse your mouth out with undiluted Sulfuric acid. This will help to endear you to the thousands of viewers that have had the displeasure of hearing your dribble.

You are in fact a cunt.

Even your butt-ugly 65 year-old missus dumped you.

Yours truly

The Omitted

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move over neil, bishen is coming to town

This is for Sime…

For years Neil Harvey was the man.

I’m not talking about as a batsman, although his batting was brilliant. Hence why he made my Best Aussie Eleven.

His batting aside, his true value to my generation is as a “rent a headline” guy.

Like many famous men from the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Eddie McGuire and Myself, he is never short of an opinion and never far away from getting angry at nothing.

He called for Mark Waugh & Shane Warne to be banned from cricket for life over the bookie scandal.

He said Steve & Mark Waugh were a waste of space, and that they were playing for money in 2002.

When Steve Waugh’s side broke the world record of most test victories in a row, he said he could name 3 better Australian teams than them.

And of the modern players compared with the Invincibles he didn’t think Ponting would have made the grade, but he thinks the Invincibles could have slotted Warne in.

Now the Invincibles were a brilliant side, but lets not forget that Sam Loxton, Ian Johnson and Doug Ring all played tests. You’d think Ponting, McGrath or Gilchrist might have slipped in there.

Neil is probably the captain of the “twas better in my day” club.

But now Neil is slowing down, he has hardly attacked Ponting of late (perhaps he’s waiting for some losses) and he is in danger of losing his crown.

In fact the last time I saw Neil speak, he didn’t look angry at all, I was a little disappointed.

Bishen Bedi, spinning god, has decided that his time is now, and he is doing everything in his power to take over from Neil.

We all know his views on the javelin throwing shot putter Murali.

He has now expanded that to include Harbhajan Singh.

Let us not forget his utter disdain for John Buchanan.

The size of cricket grounds for one day games has also come under attack from Bishen.

And my personal favourite was when he said Ian Harvey was as much a spinner as Harbhajan Singh was.

Bishen is still a reasonably young man, and since India are the logical next super power (unless they implode or start a nuclear war with Pakistan) Bishen should be the man to take over the mantle.

He does need to expand his repertoire a little. He gets a little hung up on the spinners, he needs to start bagging fast bowlers, wicket keepers and cricket officials at the same level he bags the spinners.

Being Neil is a tough job, but Bishen gets my stamp of approval.

And if for some reason he thinks he can’t do it, Navjot Sidhu is a more than capable replacement.

If India wants to take over cricket, they must do so in all facets of the game.

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Rodney Hogg

Rodney Hogg you may remember was an Australian fast bowler who was clearly a little insane. And now he has a book out.

The word around the water cooler is that it’s not a standard sporting book about how great the sportsmen was and how the media, selectors and general world never gave him the adulation he deserved.

This is a book where he says he was a d1ck and that others were d1cks as well.

I may even read it.

No probably not.

However it does remind me of a Rodney Hogg story I know.

Everything after here should have the tag line allegedly before it, cause I wasn’t there.

A group of cricketers were having a chat at a function and Hogg came over. Included were a Victorian cricketer and my old coach.

Apparently the conversation broke down like this, Hogg was very interested in the Victorian teams bowling tactics. Especially when it came to the best Australian batsmen at that time.

So he asked about Steve Waugh.

The Victorian opening bowler said that with Steve he tended to not use his feet too much early on, so if you threw up enough full balls, some wide, some straight you were a chance to get him LB or get a kick.

Hogg agreed, but then said, yeah but he doesn’t like the short ones, I think you should bounce him early, get a few men around the bat and see how you go.

Then he asked about Mark Waugh. The Vic quick said, you bowl a good foot, foot and a half wide of off stump, keep them full, don’t let him get his eye in on the on side shots. Keep him not scoring for as long possible.

Hogg agreed, but then said, I think you should give him some chin music, right in there at his throat, get a lug gully in and you’ll get him eventually.

Then he asked about Ricky Ponting.

The quick said, with Ponting you need to stay off his pads early, don’t keep the ball to full, or too short, get him reaching for the ball, keep it outside off so he has to find it, and hope he fishes for it.

Hogg, agreed again, but of course then he said, yeah but he likes to hook, kid can’t help it, you should bounce him, put em all back on the fence and just keep bouncing him till he hits one up in the air.

Apparently he asked about 3 or so more batsmen, and always brought it back to bowling short at them.

That is a fast bowler.

Or an angry Northern Suburbs boy.

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white dick heads

Mark Waugh and Allan Border are both heroes of mine, but if they think calling a dark skinned brother a monkey ain’t racism, then they are fucking idiots.

Are these two serious?

No doubt crowds always try and get reactions from players, but once you use his race into it you’re a tosser who should be banned from all cricket grounds for life.

I believe I had this argument with an Australian at the G many years ago, when he made a racist remark about Makaya Ntini being a monkey. I said dude, if your gonna sledge him make it about the fact he bowls too much short shit, or the fact he was given a 6 year rape sentence and then the judge decided on appeal that there was holes in the case.

Racism has no place in sport, it should remain the punch line for ethic minority comedians the world over.

No matter how much you wanna bag someone for their race there is always a better way of doing it. Let me give examples.

Mony Panesar, don’t bag him cause he’s an Indian playing for England, bag him for his general dorkiness.

Don’t bag Symonds for being a monkey, bag him about his white lipstick.

Herschelle Gibbs, don’t bag him cause he’s coloured, bag him cause he is a massive tool.

See, these things are more fun anyway.

As for Mark and Allan, thanks again for reminding everyone that white Australian cricketers are complete dick heads when it comes to race.

Dean Jones anyone?

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