Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Don't do it David. Think of the children!

It appears the selectors are about to repeat their mistake of India - Boonie (blessings upon him) has suggested that pace and not spin is the best option for Australia in the First Test.

Is the pitch a juicy belter?

Probably.

South Africa has no spinner and feature world class quicks, so would be nuts to go in with a spinning deck. But, so what??

Australia needs to bowl the Sethers out twice. TWICE!. That will require, for the slower amongst us (big ups to Chappers) twenty wickets. Twenty.

Let me throw some names at you. Halfahouse (Duplex), Bollinger (Passion Pop), Siddle (Sores) and Mitchell (WA's most beautiful).

Johnson could bowl his ring off and there is every prospect they would still struggle to get twenty wickets. This isn't being mean - this is a cold hard assessment of a bunch of inexperienced test bowlers. Give them twelve months more, and I'll probably be wrong. But not tomorrow.*

So again we are left at the mercy of some floundering selectors. Will they choose McGain or will they not love Australia.

* The Balls has absolutely no idea what this would mean for the selection of North and/or McDonald. Logic would suggest if its a seamers deck you'd also want a bit more batting support. But logic is a two-faced whore, and would also suggest McDonald could be very effective. Logic is the kind of bastard who doesn't buy a round at the pub.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I can believe your comments about the great Chapman! Or is this payback to earlier comments of a previous post?

Anonymous said...

I'd like to put it on the record that those comments are all MC Gregor's.

I, for one, miss Chappers inimitable style and fashion sense.