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Every now and then a sportsman with amazing talent and unlimited potential arrives on the scene. I am talking about Phillip Joel Hughes, a diminutive and prolific batsman from Macksville, NSW.
His coach, Neil D’Costa, said: “He’s not even 21 and look what he’s done. We’re talking Steve Waugh Medal, Sheffield Shield player of the year, youngest ever player to score a hundred in a Shield final, youngest player to represent Australia, he’s won a Champions League, he’s won a Sheffield Shield, he’s won a Test series and he is youngest player to score a century in each innings of a test match!”
Chairman of Selectors, Andrew Hilditch, has recently labelled Hughes as a “confused batsman”. This is the same man who described the recent Ashes loss as a “hiccup”. Ricky Ponting went on to lose the Ashes where Australia dominated the series with both bat and ball. I wonder who is actually confused!
Back to Phillip Hughes, Hiccup Hilditch has acknowledged that Hughes is a special talent. A special talent who, after a brilliant series in helping win the series against South Africa in South Africa, was unceremoniously dropped after two Tests in England.
Australia is currently playing the West Indies, ranked 8th on current Test team rankings. Instead of giving a brilliant young opener the opportunity to establish himself in Tests against a lesser team, we have a make shift opener continuing to open the batting.
This is the worst example of poor player management. I just hope that Hiccup Hilditch and the selectors have not killed off an absolute champion in the making.
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