Wrap - Drinking From The Bubbler of Stupidity

1. Mitchell Starc has responded well to Warnie's justified blast and is becoming a world force. His inswinger is well overdue. Now if he could just show Mitchell Johnson how to hit the stumps. Why is Johnson always exempt from criticism? He has the ability to single handedly lose us the World Cup. "Quick"...yes, quick to the fence and over it too.

2. Time for the minnows to go away and stop annoying people. Scotland should be banished forever. Something highly comical about their bowlers sledging Australians. A bit like Shane Heal sledging Charles Barkley all those years ago at the Olympics. UAE not much better.

There were some troubling signs in our win over Scotland. Firstly, Clarke was so concerned about not batting last time he heeds the media pressure and opens. Clearly under pressure. Then he hits 47 off 47 balls - old fashioned slowness as the clouds descend upon Hobart (why are we playing night games in Hobart?). Then old mate Shane (25 runs max) Watson returns to number 3. Was this the same bloke who was dropped last week?

Imagine this...rain hit and kept them off, seeing the match abandoned. Clarke and his slow effort against a world minnow would have been smashed. We would have been facing South Africa.

3. The Ramp Shot. We almost saw another death of a batsman...an Irish bloke who has struggled with the drink, by the name of O' Mooney, O' Dalton or O'Dear. It should be banned for mine. How are those new helmets coming along? They must be making them with paper mache. The bloody pipe cleaners and crepe paper must have just about dried and the painted paddle pop sticks should be ready to glue together. How slow has that been? The ICC have been disgraceful. It should have happened world wide months ago.

4. The whole bloody World Cup could be compressed to three weeks. It drags on like the M2 Motorway renovations - or the Parramatta-Epping railway...or the Badgery Creek second Sydney airport.

5. It is clear that if Kevin Pietersen is to make an English comeback, he will need a voice transplant. He has a voice that makes blokes fists twitch. No wonder he was punted.

6. Noticed NSW are staring at another shambolic visit to the WACA and their demise as Shield finalists. They cannot buy a wicket.

7. Last week, Parramatta fans were lining up for Grand Final tickets. This week they are back at Woolies checking out wooden spoons. Rabbits on track.

8. Daniel Riccardo. Top bloke but in a car that Mercedes have lapped with technology. Lewis Hamilton could almost take the rostrum every week.

9. Poor old Todd Carney. He was right after all. You can urinate in your own mouth, have some nuffie take a picture of it, publish it, be interviewed by the world's biggest goose apologist in Danny Wiedler, offend most people in world sport, alienate the code's last remaining female supporters and ruin the reputation of every decent person at your club and in the game...and be totally justified that his club did the wrong thing. The world has gone mad. It's official. In a word or two Todd: piss off.