Wrap - Winning Nothing

1. BBL. The key selection in any BBL team is the keeper. Look at the best teams... they have a great wicketkeeper-batsman (Carey, Phillipe, Wade...Rahul). This allows the team to have six decent batsmen. The combination has to be 6 bats-1 allrounder- 4 bowlers. I am increasingly of the view that outside of two bowlers you could almost bowl anyone. In the end you need runs so load up the batsmen and get rid of useless keepers. Jay Lenton from the Thunder is one such keeper. Zero runs is a complete liability. Getting a batsman as keeper eg. AB de Villiers is an outstanding bonus.

Further to last week, in addition to the smoke cancellation, the Thunder have had a game cancelled be electrical failure (v Heat in 2018) when the lights went out too...a throwing cheating scandal this year with Chris Green and so many rain affected games. Shane Bond the coach loads the team up with bowlers and what do you know...they struggle. They also had the Hurricanes and Strikers score a record total between them for a BBL game and bounce the Thunder out of the 2019 finals by the looks of it too.

2. Matthew Wade. An incredible innings - 130no off 61 balls. Cricket Australia needs to get our schedule right so Aussie players can participate in the full breadth of this tournament. Can you imagine Indian players not playing in the IPL? The BBL suffers with blokes coming and going too much.

3. Olyroos. Great effort to get back into the Olympics. However, it will be a minor miracle if they can win anything there. Once that is over the Western Sydney Wanderers should sign up Graham Arnold. He is one of Australia's best ever coaches - all codes.

4. Nick Kgyrios. A great win into the fourth round, but you would have thought he had won the whole tournament the way he went on. He lacks class and listens to the wrong voices. A shame as he has talent, but he lacks grace and class. Nadal will clean him up.

5. Australian Open Tennis #1. It is possible to win a tournament like this for any of the top twenty men world wide, however if you play five setters along the way your chances diminish massively. Federer will now struggle. Djokovic looks sharpest.

6. Australian Open Tennis #2. Is anyone sick of whinging, whining tennis players? So many spoilt brats. Arguments, complaining and tournament supervisors... the worst side of the sport. The press conference and the try hard Kgyrios v Nadal conflict nonsense is part of it. Refreshing to see Ash Barty win and not carry on like a pork chop.

7. A League - Brisbane Roar. Starting to move with a string of wins, but Sydney FC have it all in the bag.

8. Manchester United. The coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer is getting desperate. Signing Carlos Tevez at 35 years of age...ummm. The great club is in strife.