equatorIn 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!!!
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Bryce Mcgain? Perhaps…
Nathan Hauritz – what happened to him? He made his debut some years back and the selectors at that time mentioned he had a promising career ahead of him.
And Cameron White? He’s a leggie – not good enough? He’s a decent bat too.
Q, You can read about Cameron white, as for Hauritz, he can’t even get a state game. I don’t think he was ever a serious test match prospect.
Read that – didn’t know u were a Cameron White fan
I like him too. Don’t know why though as I haven’t seen much of him but the few ODIs he played for Australia he really did strike the ball hard. Plus he’s a handy bowler. I like players like that.
He actually just broke his foot q and will be out for 6 weeks.
Oh that sux!
I’m also a Brad Hogg fan. I reckon had he been in the XI during the 20-20, Australia would have won. Not many batsmen can read him.
And the last time Australia had a left arm china man bowler in their XI, he took 10 wickets in the match. I think you know who I’m talking about
Brad Hogg has to be Sebastian Coe’s geeky half-brother.
A dreadful man.
We like Cameron White though; it was great viewing watching him trying to get the ball to land at Eden Park earlier this year.
Enough already of the talk that we’re going to start taking T20 seriously then throwing test players at the problem (Hussey, Hodge et al.)
We need a specialist T20 team, and it needs White and Ronchi for starters to be in it.
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Moses, don’t forget Pomersbach as well, plus its probably his shout.
True, Pommybasher would be a great addition to the squad.. imagine all the puns we could use
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