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Dec 21 2009
aussies

Pick Ed Cowan

With Ricky Ponting possibly missing the boxing day test, Australia need a replacement.

A few names have been chucked around.

George Bailey. Smiles alot, finally having his break out season.

Shaun Marsh. Used to drink alot, finally making regular runs this season.

Michael Klinger. Makes alot of runs, usually by putting attacks to sleep.

Phil Hughes. Made a hundred recently, against an attack with Andrew McDonald opening the bowling.

Any random NSWales player. Due a cap, Usman to debut against Pakistanis could be tough.

Mark Cosgrove. Is making lots of runs, is eating lots of pizzas.

Mitchell Marsh. Is the talk of the town, has made no FC hundreds.

Adam Voges.  Has no weddings planned, is missing a few runs.

David Hussey. Imagine that, no I can’t.

I am sure all of these players will get someone tooting their horn if Ponting’s arm doesn’t come good.

But fuck them all (sorry FPM).

I think Australia should go in a completely different direction altogether.

They need a cricketer who doesn’t take himself too seriously, one who has made over 500 runs in 6 games this year, one without corporate ambitions, and one who likes You Am I.

The choice is simple.

Smooth Eddie Cowan.

He is now officially sanctioned by cricket with balls.

Mr Hilditch, you may select him, smooth Eddie for Boxing day.

And he isn’t even Victorian.

The ashes book.

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Dec 16 2009
aussies

Time to start using his name in conversation

I feel like I have to mention someone.

2 First Class games and 6 List A games is not usually enough to get a rubber stamp from cricket with balls.

But in his 8 games at this level he has made 4 half centuries.

Not that exciting, until you start to look at how the half centuries were made.

In his debut in first class cricket he made 59* out of 131.

In the last 3 List A games he has played in he has made a half century in each game.

The first one against NSWales was 60* off 29 balls.

The latest one was 92 out of 193.

Put those three together and you have him twice making runs when his team has collapsed, and another time putting a bunch of cherries on top of a score.

There is also the fact he seems to have the bluest sporting blood of any potential Australian cricketer since Trevor Chappell. With a brother and father from the top level of Australian cricket, and a sister who plays professional basketball.

Finally there is his age, all 18 years of him.

I’ve only seen him bat a couple of times, and it was grainy dodgy downloaded vision, but it still looked pretty damn curvaceous to me.

His name is Mitchell Marsh.

And sooner rather than later he will be called a once in a generation talent.

Western Australia has kept Mitchell back as much as they can, but you can only keep a tiger in a handbag so long.

There is no better time for Australia to start grooming their young stallion.

Now he has the cricket with balls stamp it means he will get a very quick ride to the big leagues, or spend years being frustrated.

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Oct 05 2008
general balls

the Sheffield Shield, brought to you by a soggy breakfast: WA

Western Australia, the test match batsman

Players that wont be available for large chunks of the season

Mitchell Johnson, Michael Hussey and Shaun Marsh.

They won’t miss Johnson because they have never had him, but when they have him it will be handy.

Hussey and Marsh are not going to be missed in a batting line up of this strength.

Leadership

Marcus North is very strong captain, and with Cameron White is the best captain in Australia.

Voges is the Vice Captain, and he was at one time a potential Australian captain.

So it’s a pretty good base they have there, Chris Rogers left because of a lack of leadership oppurtunities and he captained Derbyshire this year. 

Bowling

Hard to see where the wickets are going to come from.

Magoffin is a wicket taker, Edmondson is proper quick, and Dorey is tall.

But you can’t see them getting 20 wickets too often.

Aaron Heal is a great one day spinner, but isn’t really a four day bowler, and I can’t see anyone else in their squad who can contribute wickets.

Batting

This is where Western Australia come into their own.

Pomersbach, Voges, and North are all test match quality batsman in lesser countries.

Liam davis made a hundred on debut against NSWales last year and Luke ronchi is a freakin superstar.

Long in the tooth

Matthew Innes took a lot of wickets last year, but he was retired, so um, no one really.

Ready to lose the nappies

Geoff, Shaun, and now Mitchell. The third in the line of Marshs, he is only young, and is rookie listed, but with Rogers and Langer leaving he may be a good fit for the top order.

Nostradamus

Shield

3rd or 4th.

One day

2nd or 3rd.

2020

3rd or 4th.

The rub

Can bat the ass off a polar bear, but can they take wickets.

The Hugh Jackman side.

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May 29 2008
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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.

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