Shady Slim
International Coach
michael beer, who scored a lone test for australia in the grim warne-to-lyon years where the spin cycle went on and on, and didn't do much in there. in fairness i believe he got that test in perth which, while it was his home ground, was perth, and not exactly a paradise for the spinners. however...
he went on to reinvent himself as a legitimate pioneer in bbl cricket, and was the first spinner here to bowl in the early overs, doing so well before it took hold as a legitimate tactic used by every team. bowling induckers and outswingers and 95-100km, beer along with jason behrendorff were the key cogs in the scorchers team that sucked the life out of bbl cricket by defending 137 week in and week out at #TheFurnace, which is what they were calling the waca at the time ("so give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say at the time").
now
if you were a bbl watcher between 2012 and 2015 and you don't go for the scorchers, chances are you've seen your team derailed in a low chase against perth because michael beer opened the bowling and took 1/21 (4).
he went on to play for the stars after his scorchers years, long after the band broke up at perth, but that was less auspicious. nonetheless he went from someone who's the answer to a cricket trivia question to a genuine pioneer of tactics in domestic and arguably international t20 cricket, all the while doing so with a funny and memorable name.
he went on to reinvent himself as a legitimate pioneer in bbl cricket, and was the first spinner here to bowl in the early overs, doing so well before it took hold as a legitimate tactic used by every team. bowling induckers and outswingers and 95-100km, beer along with jason behrendorff were the key cogs in the scorchers team that sucked the life out of bbl cricket by defending 137 week in and week out at #TheFurnace, which is what they were calling the waca at the time ("so give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say at the time").
now
if you were a bbl watcher between 2012 and 2015 and you don't go for the scorchers, chances are you've seen your team derailed in a low chase against perth because michael beer opened the bowling and took 1/21 (4).
he went on to play for the stars after his scorchers years, long after the band broke up at perth, but that was less auspicious. nonetheless he went from someone who's the answer to a cricket trivia question to a genuine pioneer of tactics in domestic and arguably international t20 cricket, all the while doing so with a funny and memorable name.
