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HENRY: Oh no, cricket is in a spot of bother, again...
18 May 2013Given the arrests “we got a result guv’nor”. After copious phone taps, obviously, ASADA aren’t conducting an investigation or player interviews in the IPL. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that spot fixing has been uncovered in the “lucrative” Indian Premier League. Rumours that the fix is in have followed like a contagion [...]
HENRY: Terrible Australian selections set the tone in India
27 Mar 2013Where to start with the dog’s breakfast of a performance that Australia dished up in India? Coaching, selecting, batting, unbalanced XIs (with an eye and half on the Ashes), inexperienced and unqualified slow bowlers who are asked to open the batting, management, the system? Not to mention discipline, ‘insubordination’ and a crap attitude. These would [...]
HENRY: Australian selectors show ignorance and arrogance
2 Mar 2013The definition of madness is to keep repeating the same action and hope for a different result. The Australian selectors extended this for the first Test by looking at a dusty, grassless, red-hued, spinning stretch of Tamil Nadu dirt and naming four seam bowlers and one spinner. “Play to our strengths,” was the cry from [...]
HENRY: Australia down but not out after Day One
10 Nov 2012By day’s end at the ‘Gabba, South Africa could rest easy. 2-255 is a handy platform to launch a match-winning score. Yet, the Australian bowling at no time lacked effort or purpose. Given Graeme Smith’s toss winning ability, many thought the pitch would play the villain of the piece and make batting a hazardous occupation. [...]
HENRY: Haddin's axing sends wrong message to teammates
30 Oct 2012The selectors have cast their die for the First Test and perhaps beyond. Brad Haddin is the first victim of the summer and a ball has yet to be released. Chairman of selectors, ye venerable olde gentleman John Inverarity, was very careful with the wording of his statement regarding the man who has ‘retained’ his [...]
Perfect West Indies stifle Aussie climb
7 Oct 2012The selectors had a think. What’s working? What’s not working? And a few, who’s for the what’s. Glen Maxwell wasn’t working mainly because he wasn’t getting a bowl. Just two solitary one over spells in the previous two games. Maxwell wasn’t making any runs because he wasn’t getting to the crease. David Hussey, one of [...]
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