TYPICALLY TROPICAL

No surprises in the Test squad for the West Indies:

• Clarke
• Watson
• Beer
• Cowan
• Forrest
• Haddin
• Harris
• Hilfenhaus
• Mike Hussey
• Lyon
• Pattinson
• Ponting
• Siddle
• Starc
• Wade
• Warner

Comments

[m0nty]

Beer not a surprise? They seem to have put an X through Doherty's name.

[Tony]

They seem to like Beer a lot. And since the West Indies is a hot place...

[Big Ramifications]

What happened to our million dollar spinner? Last seen wearing a tweed hunting jacket and riding jodhpurs in a fashion spread with Shane Watson. I honestly can't remember his name...

[Tony]

Him?

[Big Ramifications]

Thankyou!

Injured? Out of favour? R00ted the wrong selector's daughter? He just went *POOF* one day and disappeared.

[Kenneth Williams]

Oh, I say!

[Tony]

Got dropped, got injured, got not good enough.

[chrisl]

Didn't he sell all that gear in a garage sale (in Oxford St)

[Tony]

Yes.

And no:

Hauritz garage sale story is wrong

A COURIER-MAIL back page story panning Hervey Bay cricketer Nathan Hauritz for allegedly selling off his representative cricket gear at a garage sale contained a number of major inaccuracies according to the journalist, Stephen Birch, who wrote the initial version.

Birch admitted yesterday his article had been changed by sub editors because "that's the way it goes sometimes";.

He also admitted that Hauritz was not in fact selling his gear at a garage sale nor giving it away to anybody which his story said.

[Tony]

Haddin home.

[Big Ramifications]

They said I'd never make it, but I finally came through.

For all of you who've made it, this one's made for you... made for you... this one's made for you... you made it through and this one's made for you.

[Tony]

Is that who I think it is? If this blog ever recovers, it will be a very long time.

[Big Ramifications]

Richard likes to lurk here heh heh.

[Tony]

His friends call him Richard. I call him Dick.

[lou]

Jeez, this blog is even more whacked out than usual.

Hasn't Richard Neville been picked to replace Haddin in the ODI part of the tour? I would have thought he'd be a bit old. Just as annoying as Klutz though.

[lou]

Lord, I hate the look of that team to the WI, it just looks BORING somehow.

Apart from Hilfenhaus and Lyon.

[lou]

What I mean is, lots of competence but no pizazz. I don't count Warner yet, he's too hit and miss.

[Tony]

Whaddaya mean "this blog is even more whacked out than usual"? This blog is one of the few sane blogs in the world.

[lou]

That's an awful lot of insane blogs cluttering up the interweb.

I like whacked out blogs. AND that was a compliment even if it didn't sound like one.

[chrisl]

I hate it when players break into teams though hitting lots of fours and sixes, then when they get established, become boring deflecters and nurdlers.Think Boon, S Waugh and now D Warner ( not forgetting et and cetera)

[Big Ramifications]

Mark Waugh used to bowl medium pace.

[Tony]

Steve Waugh was a good medium pacet too. Ice cold in the 87WC closing overs.

[Mark Waugh]

Yeah, but the whole 15 meter runup started giving me the sh!ts. Fark that for a joke. So I became an offie. Can't believe I didn't think of it earlier.

A 15 meter runup did not suit my laxadaisical style.

[David Gower]

I approve of your sentiment. Not of your spelling.

Could you imagine me trundling in from 15 meters? I think not.

[Mark Taylor]

Fuzitsu!

[Tony]

Often players come into the side on the back of a rich vein of form: Richie Robinson, David Hookes, Dave Warner, Our Phil Hughes and Flatty Hayden to name a few obvious examples. Starting their careers they looked a million bucks pummeling attacks - but then they got sussed. At that point they needed to adjust their games to cope with the more rigorous assault from better bowlers, or they were back in the Shield. Flatty was able to come back (although international bowling was particularly week at that point). Not 100% convinced about Warner, but if he makes a score every fourth or fifth innings he will not be dropped. And I can't rember if Our Phil was knocking the door down prior to his promotion, but the was rock all else players aftet Flatty flopped.

[Tony]

Oh, right, my point. Test batsmen need to learn to nurdle to prosper long term in Test cricket.

[chrisl]

My father who comes from a non-cricketing background,occasionally watches the cricket,as the y block ball after ball. Suddenly somebody hits a six and he will say "why can't they do that all the time?"
So my question is " why can't they do that all the time?"

[Big Ramifications]

Anyone got the rub on Haddin's "personal reasons"? Heard on the radio a few hours ago that his personal reasons are so much so that he will miss the entire tour.

But this updated report I just heard still used the "personal reasons" descriptor, and no more.

[Ben Mendelsohn]

Personal reasons???

[Tony]

I will laugh my chest puppies off if that is you. I'll laugh, anyway. Blue riband humour.

[Big Ramifications]

Woof woof.

[Tony]

Confession.

I read Big Ramifications under the first comment, then assumed Ben Mendelsohn was Big Ramifications under the second.

[Big Ramifications]

A prescient assumption. I totally forgot about him having it written on a T-shirt. I parsed that movie still while perusing a *.gov.au library archives type-site the other day. I believe this blog is also being archived by the good folks at *.gov.au[?].

But that was a serious question up there. Any idea on Haddin's personal reasons? Every bloke I know is saying "weak as p1ss, toughen up – he's had a dummy spit over planned selection for the tests."

Would be terrible if it turns out to be "kid has cancer" or something.

[Tony]

I heard the 7pm news on the radio and it said "personal reasons" too.

Can't see it being a dummy spit, nor does it have the feel of a disciplinary issue; both of those would already have found their way into the media.

Sounds more like a legit issue.

[Big Ramifications]

Just as I expected then: Tim Zoehrer was r00ting his missus.

[Big Ramifications]

Great. His kid does have cancer. I feel like a jackass with my Zoehrer quip.

[Tony]

If no one made a goose of himself with quips-gone-wrong, the internet would shut down tomorrow.

[Paul Rizzo]

Ya jackass!

[Tony]

Have you heard the talkback caller who played lines from A Few Good Men to a bemused host who has no idea what is going on? Gold. "I'm going to call 911." Can't find it online. Your fossicking abilities are better than mine, Biggy. Go for it.

[Big Ramifications]

IMHFO, this is the best A Few Good Men phone prank. I hope it's the one you're thinking of. ARE WE CLEAR?

Sound only: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFSUtNEF6_U

[Tony]

That's the one. Very funny. Did not realise it was so old. And nor did Darren James, who played it on AW yesterday.

[livescore]

I think they will miss Mitchell Johnson.Well,he is a fine allrounder.Although he is not in great form for the recent couple of months but he ought to be given a chance to regain his lost form.