Monday, March 13, 2006

OMFG! What was that!

Went to bed last night after watching magnificent batting by Australia to post 4-434.  Ponting was brutal and Hussey is perhaps one of the most effective batsmen I have ever seen in ODI’s.  The guy is all class.

Good move to bring him in ahead of Martyn and then Symonds following late.

In my mind, it was good night South Africa.

Awoke to find that South Africa chased the massive score and set a new world record themselves.  I new the pitch was a belter and I new that they would get at least 300 chasing, but to get 434 and win, OMFG!

OK, I haven’t seen any highlights and I haven’t read many newspapers and just am going off the stats.  But Mick Lewis conceding 0-113 off 10 overs at the age of 34yrs is the biggest dud selection by our selectors since Spofforth was a boy.

To think that this heavy set bum who trundles around for Victoria is a better bowler than:  Gillespie, Tait or Kapsprowicz is a joke.  Stuart Clarke is not much better and to have Clarke and Lewis in a team alongside Bracken and Lee is a travesty.  Once McGrath went out of the tour, we needed an experienced bowler.  Gillespie should have been called in immediately.  If for some reason that he is being left out of the team because he shagged Trevor Hohn’s wife or something, then Kaspa should have been included.

If Australia is content to let Glenn McGrath contest the 2007 World Cup (where he will be 37) then we should be content to have Gillespie (a comparative baby at 30yrs of age) play and Kaspa on stand by.

Bracken is a good bowler and 5/67 shows that, but he needs to be nurtured amongst experienced bowlers not thrown in with Neville Nobodies like Lewis and Clarke.

Batting, the side is going magnificently – even before last night.  The bowling though is in disarray and if Gillespie was sent to the boondocks because of his Ashes performance, well Mick Lewis needs to go back to Melbourne 3rd Grade and take a good hard look at himself.

/rant off

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