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The national selection panel has dealt Mike Hussey an inexcusable injustice by dumping him from the ODIs against Sri Lanka.
Hang your heads in shame Messrs Inverarity, Marsh, Bichel, Clarke, and Arthur.
So today at the SCG in the third Test against Sri Lanka will be Hussey’s last as an Australian international.
And he won’t remember his final Test with any joy.
He was sawn off by his captain Michael Clarke with a suicidal call – Hussey run out for 25.
Two days later Clarke was a member of the panel that sawed off Hussey’s ODI career when there were 10 games still to play before he hung up his boots altogether – five each against Sri Lanka and the West Indies.
This is a black day for Australian cricket when an icon, revered by all and sundry, has been treated so shabbily.
Selection chairman John Inverarity was pathetic in explaining why when he said it was futile to extend the 37-year-old’s career.
Futile?
Hussey averages 48.15 in 185 ODIs, the ninth best in history.
What a disgraceful comment from a non-charismatic selector about one of the most charismatic cricketers in the world.
Inverarity went on to explain the selectors were looking to the 2015 World Cup. If that’s the case why did they pick Mike Hussey’s younger brother David who has been a failure for the last year?
David Hussey is 35, and has only scored two 50-pluses in his last 16 digs.
If he stays, Hussey will be 37 by World Cup time. Inverarity has no idea, he keeps floundering in public.
And that’s one thing Mike Hussey has never ever done.
He deserves a whole lot more, no cricketer has served his country better. His dedication of the highest order.
Pity the selectors aren’t of the same calibre.