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There has been no ticker tape parade. No roast and no toast. But here at The Punch, we’re all for big send-offs.
So before that spectacularly gifted Test cricketer Nathan Horowitz fades into cricketing obscurity, let’s recap the greatest performances of the man who was so good, we hardly noticed Shane Warne was gone. So many to choose from. Here are six of the best…
Australian selectors, who generally rate somewhere between journalists and used car salesmen on the vocational popularity scale, may just have gotten something right for a change.
On the face of it, naming an extended 17 man Ashes squad was a classic act of fence-sitting. But in another sense, it shows that selectors have finally heard the public outcry to remove the dead wood.
By picking 17, Andrew Hilditch and his cronies have put the serial underperformers on notice, by picking an in-form specialist for each of the incumbents currently under threat.
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Adrian says:
Budz, if you’re referring to me, I definitely did not say he should be recalled in to the test team. The words I used were “acknowledgement” and “consideration”. I haven’t heard anybody else talk about him, but I thought his performance against the very cricketers that are going to be… Read more »
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Mr Sharwood doing a bit of name-dropping there… Read more »
It’s time for the Aussie cricket selectors to make the boldest decisions they’ve made in over two decades.
Andrew Hilditch, that other big bloke with the moustache and their fellow selectors need to run a broom through the Australian team otherwise the best we can hope for is more of the same mediocre cricket that has become common in recent times.
Back in the mid-80s, though their hand was forced somewhat by retirements and rebel tours, the Australian selectors opted for a youth policy under the guidance of captain Allan Border.
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