equatorEverytime Nathan Hauritz doesn’t get smashed, does better than people think, or bowls well in a one dayer, I get comments about it. Fair enough.
People ask when I am going to start liking him, when I will apologise, when will I give him the respect he so clearly deserves.
My problem with him has never been in the limited overs format, he has always been ok there. Mixes up his pace nicely, seems to get more drift, and doesn’t ball too many shit balls.
In his first 7 tests he has done well to average 32, but he has also had help as he has only played on wickets Australia expect to spin. His best haul is 3 wickets in an innings (Marcus North has a four wicket haul), and his best match figures are 6/158.
Hauritz is still yet to get a five wicket haul in first class cricket. Not one. He is 28. He has played over 50 games. No five wicket hauls.
And this is my problem.
Because others have.
Cullen Bailey has two.
He also has a better first class bowling average than Nathan. Which is not that hard to do.
Bailey is 4 years younger, has played almost 30 fewer first class games, is a leg spinner, and was once a contracted Australian cricketer who played club cricket.
He hasn’t had a go at playing for Australia.
Hauritz has.
That isn’t Hauritz’s fault. And Hauritz is doing the best he can.
But that doesn’t mean I like it.
Until Nathan Hauritz takes five wicket hauls in competitive first class or above games, I can’t see how i will ever warm to him.
Or I could just be an asshole who has an irrational hatred of generic offspinners, either or.
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How can Hauritz take 5 wickets in Shield cricket when Smith holds the spinners position?
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Well it’s not your fault. If Merv had chosen him for the last Ashes test, he might (stress on the might) have done well. Then you would have liked him. They are not just giving you the opportunity.
I’m hoping that this is the season that bailey breaks through. he’s grabbed a 3 for on a flat deck, plus ground out 91.
The kid has talent, let’s hope he realises it.
Good stats, Jrod.
‘Ritz won’t play in Brissy. He’ll play in Adelaide and pick up 2 or 3. Same in Perth. So we’ll be half way through the summer and no further forward as far as a test spinner goes. But then, of course, we’ll have the ‘Steve Smith must play’ comments coming out of NSW. Maybe they’ll wait for him to wait to reach double figures in 1st class wickets, but it didn’t stop them saying he must play last year when he only had 2 career wickets.
In other news, Phil Hughes is now known as ‘The Future’. How can you not immediately pick a guy who is simply called ‘The Future’. Mere trifles such as technical difficulties mean nothing when you are dealing with ‘The Future’.
Krezja for PM!
Hewy
Seems to be slightly skewed logic there – Smith must play, because he’s from NSW, but Hughes, from the same unduly favoured state – not picked.
Steve – I was being sarcastic.
Hughes will be picked because everyone (ie media commentators from NSW) keep saying he’s ‘The Future’. I’ve heard that saying dozen or more times in the last week. One thing I’ve learned in my (working) career is that if you want to force something to occur, give it a name that no one can argue with. ‘What, you don’t believe in The Future!’.
Basically the Blues cabal are falling over themselves to try to manouvre players into the test side with a summer of Windies & Pakistan and autumn tests in NZ.
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hewy, i’ll take the future over once in a generation, just for the variation.
And in unrelated news: Its been raining all day in Mumbai so in all likelihood we can ditch the final match of the Aussie tour and the first match of the Lankan tour, tomorrow.
Another two for bailey in the shield match on an absolute road. Let’s hope he can bag 3-4 in the second dig…
joges, that is fine by me. The BaggyGreen share price is about as low as I want it to go. The idea of some unknown called Burt Cockley playing was just plain disrespectful to Indian players and Aussie fans.
Bailey won’t get a fair go – he’s a South Australian
It seems like the disrespect is all in the Indian camp if this news clip is true – how to recover from one match – lost – and prepare for the next!
http://nestaquin.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/team-india-the-fun-of-failure/
I hope Cockley plays anyway .
Hauitz is good, shitloads better than any spinner tried out since Warnie left
- McGill returned a gammy armed gimp
- the postman knocked twice and had his testicles removed
- McGain got treated to a reenactment of the pawn shop scene in Pulp Fiction, except no one came to the rescue
- and Krezja, wtf, he averages over 40 a wicket with a crap economy rate
Haurrie was shit, but as you say JROD a good one day bowler, but not in a Botha probotic kinda way. He’s also bowled well in tests and is a lot less defensive than he used to be- can handle getting belted without cowering…
Yeah, Bailey should move to NSW. He won’t get a game, but he’ll be right up there for test selection.