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Christ Hartley does.

And tomorrow he gets his chance as Australia use their 3rd gloveman on this tour.

Going on recent records this means that Hartley will get a broken finger Manou and Haddin style.

The next time Australia tour England they will bring 4 keepers just to be safe.

There is one good thing about all this, every time Australia uses a new keeper, he is better than the last.

Hartley is to Manou what Manou is to Haddin.

There is probably no finer keeper in Australia.

He is Australia’s James Foster, and just recently he has started making some runs.

Don’t let this call up fool you though, he is still well down the queue, Tim Paine would probably be 3rd, but he isn’t in England.

Australia has now run out of keepers in the UK, if Hartley gets injured then Tim Ambrose or Tim Nielsen will have to keep.

I wrote about Hartley when working out who Australia’s back up keeper might be.

“Chris Hartley might be the man to jump the queue. Is the best regular gloveman in the country, and with Crosthwaite, are the only two guys who are proper old school keepers. His career batting average is 27, but is in career best form with the bat, has one hundred this year, 3 50s and that is not including his 82* overnight in the current match. Of all the keepers in Australia only he and Manou seem to be safe in their jobs.”