Every one day series should have a major controversy in the first game, you know, just to keep us interested.
Enter Brad Haddin.
Neil Broom is newly into the kiwi team.
He is batting behind Grant Eliott, so the kiwis obviously don’t have such high hopes for him.
Then he is facing the door knobs of Michael Clarke and he misses one.
Dot ball.
You’d think, but magical wicket keeping can change cricket games.
Brad Haddin seeing the ball was going to narrowly miss the stumps decided to give Clarke an “assisted bowled”.
It was done with the grace of mobsters doctor.
He just eased his hands in front of the stumps (illegal) and then when taking the ball hit the stumps and bails with his gloves (majorly fucken illegal).
It was something you would expect of a Victorian Wicket keeper in a final.
The super slow mo is interesting, with Haddin looking straight down at the stumps for a while, and then eventually making his way over to the huddle.
This may be the first time I thought Haddin had what it takes to be Australia’s keeper.
Thommo says:
Ponting is a two head and his petulant spray vis a vis Vettori just proves it
Utter Bastardtry.
In the old days would be down in the beautiful folklore of trans tasman cricket, but this should give Ronchi a chance to play against the country of his birth.
Would also like to say great umpiring from square leg, with the third umpires helping out with stumpings, surely they could notice little things like the keepers gloves being inches in front of the stumps.
