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There are approximately 7 top line keepers in Australia.

Perhaps 8 if you include Adam Crosthwaite.

In the last 4 months, 4 keepers have been used for Australia.

Haddin and Manou in tests.  Hartley in a first class match. And Paine in the limited overs match.

Three of these keepers have broken their fingers. Keepers have always broken their fingers.  Usually it doesn’t put them out of the side.  With Australia it seems to be.

Other than a piss poor joke about Australian keepers all being lactose intolerant., I don’t know what is going on here.

Australia do have a team of pretty quick bowlers, but no quicker than England or South Africa of recent times, and their keepers seem to keep their fingers.

It could be a legal or insurance based thing, maybe the lawyers that whisper in James Sutherland’s ear are saying that this could cost them in the long run if Brad can’t play “I’ve got your nose” with his son.

Perhaps this isn’t the keepers, it could be a change of approach from the Australian medical staff.  The team is stricter in general now, perhaps the medical staff got the same memo. No sledging, no playing injured.

It can’t be the amount of cricket they play, Paine has played less cricket in the last 6 months than he would have in the previous 6 months.  Manou had hardly played a game when he got injured.

They could be soft, Tim Paine does look like an 8 year old, but Haddin has played with a pretty horrific break, and Manou captained a team I would have left, so he can’t be that soft.

Are they performing sexual favours on the captain, surely he wouldn’t risk his keeper for a finger up the back passage.

I am sure Rod Marsh or Slug Jordon would just say that they are being pussies, and in their day they kept with mutilated stumps that were oozing puss and blood whilst every ball that hit their hands was like pushing out a fat baby sideways.

Personally I don’t know what is causing it, but I think that for every tour in the future Australia should send over minimum 3 keepers.

Tagged as: aussies, wicket keeping

14 Comments

1. Arsalan Khan  •  Oct 29, 2009 @03:54
   

   Even if T-Paine had a damaged finger he kept like Italy’s goal keeper – I forgot the dude’s name. Raina and Dhoni’s catches were awesome.

   P.S can’t they medically transplant that moody finger below as a substitute during tours? Break a finger? No problem, cut that, attach. It could be altered into a thumb, an index or even a pinky.

   Thank God Pollard doesn’t keep wickets. That would make an arm.

   Cheers.

2. Cameron  •  Oct 29, 2009 @04:00
   

   No more Pura, no more milk, more broken bones! Stroke of genius spotting that one! Time to get that sponsorship back, pronto!

3. Collie  •  Oct 29, 2009 @04:02
   

   I’m not totally au fait with the Aussie side, but isn’t Shaun Marsh also a Keeper? Maybe with them on standby…

4. Cricket Tragic  •  Oct 29, 2009 @05:14
   

   Oh, that is so sick, JRod!
   Cricket Tragic´s last blog ..Ga(y)le stopped in its way by lightning Bolt

5. CM  •  Oct 29, 2009 @05:41
   

   I’m just happy we don’t have to watch Paine play.

6. straight point  •  Oct 29, 2009 @06:46
   

   apparently fielders are trying to take wickets that bowlers are not able to… by throwing at stumps full throttle… hence the reason of broken fingers…

7. Hewy  •  Oct 29, 2009 @07:09
   

   Brad Haddin’s got some serious issues – he’s been playing with broken fingers since his debut. It’s hard to see how he can keep going on.

   The guy who must be on suicide watch is Luke Ronchi. Less than 12 months ago he was Australia’s no.2 keeper. At the moment he’s probably behind some kid in under-14’s in the queue for next Aussie keeper.
   Deservedly so too.

8. Craig  •  Oct 29, 2009 @09:11
   

   Have you really included Dan Smith as one of your ‘7 top line’ keepers in Australia?

9. jogesh99  •  Oct 29, 2009 @09:44
   

   From someone gloating in the enemy camp – I thought Paine’s last over was very impressive – the one hand catch and the run-out.

10. christopher poshin david  •  Oct 29, 2009 @10:41
    

    Never short on keepers are u guys?
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11. Jamie64  •  Oct 29, 2009 @23:49
    

    I’ve said it before, Dave Dawson from tassie is your man.

12. Moses  •  Oct 30, 2009 @02:47
    

    KERRY O’BRIEN: Can I ask you to hold up your hands?

    IAN HEALY: I haven’t got too many bad fingers.

    This one’s the bad one and the index fingers have copped it a little bit.

    KERRY O’BRIEN: How many fractures have you suffered in those hands in your Test career?

    IAN HEALY: Oh, I suppose I can tell people now, can’t I?

    I never used to tell people, never have them X-rayed.

    I’ve never really had many of them X-rayed.

    The treatment for a broken finger is the same as it is for a bruised finger.

    It’s rest and ice, etcetera.

    Once I make the decision that I’m going to play with this injured finger, it becomes a bruised finger.

    That’s all I can do — ice it and keep it as still as I possibly can when I’m not using it.

    For my book, which I did a couple of seasons ago, we had them X-rayed and there were 11 old fracture sites that a radiologist or some specialist picked up in X-rays.

    But who knows?

    There was four in that index finger.

    I had a problem with a finger costing me a Test match.

    I have a big problem that a small thing like a finger can actually stop you playing a Test match for Australia.

    Unless the function, which happened when I broke my thumb — it was high up in my hand, my broken thumb.

    I couldn’t actually function in my glove, so my function had decreased.

    Unless that happens, I don’t think a finger should really cost me.

    http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/stories/s62942.htm
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13. steve  •  Oct 30, 2009 @02:53
    

    perhaps the answer is to look at who’s bowling to them – siddle could do with less balls and more brain. A bit of technique might help ,too, instead of trying to knock everyone’s head off.

14. Vim  •  Oct 31, 2009 @19:28
    

    They are all ‘looked after’ now far more than they use to be. If Healy is to be believed, he probably waved the physio away or pretended on the pitch that it was ok. The modern chaps don’t seem to do that.

    Anyway, I’m miffed that the Aus team can’t bat anymore. Seriously miffed. Hussey and Punter seem to be lone voices in the wilderness and why is Cam White playing for a place in the test team? He won’t get one no matter how much he tries to copy Michael Clarke and just play defensive in one day matches. Stupid tw*t is there to slug.

    BRING BACK KATICH.