Sunday, November 29, 2015

Wrap - Bad Hands

1. What an unlucky club net bowler who was hit while bowling in the nets. Mitch Marsh middled one! He looms as our next Shane Watson. Can surprise, but disappoints more often than most. How fat is Swampy? He has some guts now.

Mitch Starc injured again. When did we have a summer when all bowlers stayed fit? Not since McGrath, Kaspo, Lee...these blokes didn't fall apart. Gillespie even. Merv lasted.

Oh the irony...Shaun Marsh hits one down the ground in a test for the first time and gets run out! Great to see NZ have brought their own Santa (Santner) with them. Merry Christmas!

Shaun Marsh rose to the occasion and hit a lot more frequently down the ground. A gem of a second innings really. Announced his return under immense pressure. The most relieved Marsh is Rod...the ailing selector.

Unfortunately the Windies will be a misery.

2. Pink Ball. Having been at the ground, the ball is fine when it hits the grass, but down the pitch live - hard to see under lights! Not bad on tele. If it can be so influential under lights, it seems more treacherous than losing the toss. Imagine it in India or Sri Lanka when the dew sets in...

Great to see a pitch where batsmen have to work hard. Much more engaging.

3. Interested to see the massage man/ team trainer fielding for Australia in a Test match. Has it come to this? The 12th man - surely they can hang around and learn other skills. Is there not another decent player somewhere? He hung around for ever. The one through the legs would cop a bagging in B10's. This used to happen when playing the President's XI or the Durham Second XI. Unprofessional and wearing some sort of supporter's cap baggy green...disrespectful.

He has plenty of work off the field he needs to attend to...Starc, Warner....on it goes...

Then they bring on a young kid who Warnie thinks may have had a couple of beers after his game earlier in the day at club cricket! Smith needs work on his hands. The captaincy is taking some toll perhaps. Maybe the massage man needed to come on into the slips.

4. What about the world's most boring issue? The TV rights for the NRL. Get it on television and stop annoying us. No one cares. A bit like when the draw is announced! Who cares? Rivalled by the DRS Pommie umpire. A ditherer.

5. Apparently Essendon AFL club are door knocking fans to thank them for their loyalty. Should be a quick afternoon's work.

6. That ex-NBA player in the NBL. No wonder an 83 year old with some disabilities throws beer on him. If he was any good he would be playing over there. Put the old bloke in a rocking chair with a pipe and keep him under house arrest.

The NBA is wildly over achieving with every game shown live on Fox. Hard to believe it.

7. Sight screens. Since when do we need 15 sections of seating covered in white towels/ banners for the sight screen? Plus the useless one with the garage door remote. In the old days it was big news when Joel Garner made them put two feet on top of the black ODI sight screens. Do we need that much extra? Greg Chappell played with kids hanging over the fence waving flags in front of them...and still got runs.

8. Speith is a class act. Composed and calm regardless. However Matt Jones gets the Stonehaven Cup...only $225,000 for the winner. Lucky to see any international players here at that price. This would be ashtray change for most of the stars.

9. How about Klitschko’s nine-and-a-half-year reign as heavyweight boxing champion getting undone today? Some sort of effort!

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