Thank God the Cricket is Back, sort of…
First One Dayer today. Up against the Bangles. Not what you might call a thrilling match, though it was more notable for who was missing from the Aussie lineup than for the on field play. The raggy headed freak once again upset those of a certain temperament for having the temerity to miss a team meeting to discuss tactics against the ultimate of cricketing world minnows. Possibly it could be less important to be competing against the US team, or perhaps Canada, but not much. Seriously, what could they say in a meeting that could be at all important against a team like Bangladesh?
“Ok you batsmen, go out and score as many runs as you can in 50 overs, and then the bowlers have to get the ten wickets and we can all get an early round in at Royal Darwin before dinner.”
Then the bar opens. Seriously, I know the team has to beat up the most lopsided competition in cricket so that a few misguided souls will part with some of their hard earned to come watch, but come on. Lets get a bit of reality here. This series is a warm up. I like to think of it as the first fifteen playing against the under 15 hockey team so they can warm up for the main draw later in the season. Knock a bit of the winter rust off and get the feet moving again. It is already decided before they take the stumps down to the wicket, the only interest is how long the Bangles will survive and how many runs Australia will score.
If they were serious about this game, do you honestly think that Punter, Haydos, The undie salesman et al, would have booked tee time on the day? No, neither I. So lets put things into perspective and give Symonds a well deserved rap across the knuckles for missing some pissants ant hill inspirational meeting and let the bugger get out on the field and entertain the punters who have coughed up to watch the game. Believe it or not, they didn’t come along from far and wide to see Peter Porkie Parker waddle around square leg, they came to see the likes of Hayden and Symonds knocking a little white ball a hell of a long way.
Amen to that Reb.
The year is only divided into two seasons. Cricket season and the off-season.
Comment by Elijah | September 1, 2008