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The End Of The World……..20/20 Style.
The commencement of the IPL 20/20 competition is the cricketing equivalent of the lunar landing.
Expectations are high all around the world, but will it be as historically significant? I doubt it. In fact, I think it will do more harm than good. In this fast food, throw away world the shiniest car in the lot isn’t always the best. Some of the plainer things are often much more intriguing or captivating.
Of the 20/20 cricket played so far, which games stick in your mind were you think, “Geez, I’m not going to forget that in a hurry!”…………..simply none of them.
No 20/20 game has made the hairs stand on the back of my neck like the day Steve Waugh metorphorically gave Trevor Hohns the two finger salute in his career saving 100 in Sydney or the day Mike Whitney held out for an over to defy the Kiwis in Melbourne, in ’87, and reclaim the Trans Tasman trophy, to name just two of 1,000′s of cricketing highlights borne from the longer form of the game.
These events made us proud to belong to the country of our origin. Twenty/20 may be entertaining, but if it causes our players to abandon their international and domestic careers at an earlier age, many of the wonderful memories cricket provide will be just that, memories.
An already diluted talent pool, diluted further will spell the end for the longer versions of the game…….it’s time to re-embrace the simple things in life.
Three Jeers for Kaspa
It is with great excitement that I can write that the man with the fattest ass in international cricket, Michael Kasprowicz, has announced his retirement.
Never has a man, with no talent, been given more of an opportunity to play for his country than the “old warhorse” that is Kaspa.
His ridiculously short pitched bowling meant that he ensured the batsmen had plenty of time to get on the back foot and choose his next shot. His frightening speed had them all quivering too!!!
The bloke could not swing the ball or move the ball off the wicket – in the end he couldn’t even bowl fast offies.
I was unfortunate enough to see his first ODI wicket at the MCG – both Sime and I thought that the ball hit him on the foot given its length – no doubt Sherwin Campbell cannot believe that he played the dumbest shot to third man to get out.
I am glad to see the end of Kaspa, because you could just never second guess the Australian selectors – you just knew that he was always the next in line – irrespective of the form of other Aussie domestic cricketers.
Good riddens to you Kaspa, now may that ass come to good use – Trevor Hohns enjoyed it whilst being chairman of selectors and I reckon there might be a spot in his retirement home just for you.
MacGill v Hogg – why bother with either?
In the wake of the retirements of the two greatest bowlers Australia has ever produced, the mantra of the post-Hohns selection committee should be to look forward and plan for the future and not be so worried about the present.
Andrew Hilditch and Cricket Australia are so concerned about attendance figures at games that their sole focus is on winning, winning, winning. But what about the future?
It is alright for John Buchanan to come out and say that we can palm off our “not-good-enoughs” to other countries, but our reign at the top will not last forever. The time is right for the top-nobs to start thinking about 10/11, not 07/08.
Hogg and MacGill may be good for one, maybe two years and you are all going to say that the talent is thin in the spin bowling stocks so that there isn’t someone ready to take the mantle. But remember who was the fat blonde bloke that got belted by the Indians those years ago? He was picked at 21 years of age.
We need to take a risk on a kid. I don’t care if its Callum Bailey or Dan Cullen, they may get smashed too and we may lose some games against weaker sides than us, but remember short term pain for long term gain!!!
The Trevor Hohns 11
I’m back on deck as long as Uncle J-Rod keeps the language down.
I’d like to pay homage to those players over the 10 or so years who have played test cricket for Australia who have had little or no ability whatsoever, but must have had incriminating photos of Trevor Hohns. I know the side is stacked with bowlers, but our batsman have been pretty steady. Seeing though the selectors couldn’t pick a 12, I have picked 14 players to tour whichever fifth world country would like to play us!!!
- Greg Blewett – had an absolute gaping technique flaw – it was as wide as the area between his bat and his bad when he played straight
- Matthew Elliot – Unfortunately he could play a bit, just not for Australia!!!
- Brad Hodge – he talks the talk but never walks the walk – just another “talented Victorian”
- Simon Katich (VC) – walks more around the crease than Burke and Wills did when trekking across Australia
- Stuart Law – Still can’t even get a game with the Poms… and I’ll never forgive him for costing us the 1996 World Cup
- Phil Emery – how did this bloke keep Darren Berry out of the side
- Michael Kasprowicz (C) – the bloke with the fattest a$$ in world cricket, never swung the ball, never moved the ball off the wicket, I ask again, why did he play 38 tests????
- Sean Young – like his namesake actress, useless in all aspects of the game
- Gavin Robertson – Steve Waugh’s bumbuddy helped him get this gig
- Paul Wilson – Blocka. Bowled like he was blocked up too!
- Brad Williams – the worst Australian cricketer ever to wear the Baggy Green
- Scott Muller – Can’t Bowl Can’t Throw… I think that says enough
- Mathew Nicholson (Who??? Oh yeah that bloke)
- Simon Cook – See Mathew Nicholson
Enjoy, Big Daddy
