Who said Test cricketers weren't role models?
Joe Amad doesn't possess a baggy green cap or even play for Victoria, but he proved last weekend that he is, dare we say, no ordinary Joe. You see, playing for his team Yarraleen against Templestowe, the Box Hill Reporter B2-grade competition's top team, the 39-year-old taxi driver came to the wicket with his side struggling at 5-29 but what then followed will be talked about at his club for years. After being dropped at five and 30, Amad told his batting partner: "I think this might be my day." He wasn't wrong. Not only did he proceed to plunder the bowling to the tune of 319 runs, eclipsing his own club record of 199, scored a couple of years ago, but when he was finally dismissed (caught in the deep by one of three fieldsmen within a 30-metre arc from deep mid-off to deep mid-on), he had struck 45 fours and five sixes and taken his team to 463, the third-highest total in the history of the club.
I'm not touching that post title with a 10 foot pole.
Posted by: nick | 21 February 2008 at 13:06
Oh, Nick, do! Do!
Posted by: Professor Rosseforp | 21 February 2008 at 13:41
Maa Kii 8-)
Posted by: nick | 21 February 2008 at 14:47
That post title was specifically designed to be touched with 10 foot poles.
Posted by: Tony T | 21 February 2008 at 15:24
Just as an aside (and it seemed the appropriate thread), do you think the usual suspects will be as happy with Roy's individuality/idiosyncrasies/uniqueness now? Lucre over Pakistan probably isn't as PC as dreadlocks or being black in a white dressing room.
Posted by: nick | 21 February 2008 at 17:12
Should Joe have put his name down for IPL? Parthiv Patel got ~$300k!
Posted by: nick | 21 February 2008 at 17:13
Roy's asking for trouble.
Party getting 300k mean I should get 300k!
Posted by: Tony T | 21 February 2008 at 18:53
I eclipsed my own mammoth high score with 76 scored at breakneck speed against a 'high quality attack' and i demand to be part of the Indian Super league Pick. I judge myself to be worth $10,000 of any decent teams money and i could be on the next flight. Plus expenses.
Posted by: Brett Pee | 23 February 2008 at 21:40