haha completely forgot about ****ing up the ball change. To be fair to Joel though, he looked pretty concerned and undecided while going through different balls but Dharmablahblah came charging in and like whats in the box and then put his hand in to the box and randomly picked one without care in the world like an unsupervised child plucking an orange from the neighbours garden. Expired balls gate needs more discussions
His vacations to Turkey usually collides with England losing. Might be looking at a pretty long one next month
It's not a crime but a molehill in his career.
He is the international equivalent of darren stevens
Pah, his 80+mph dibbly dobblers would not enable him to make the step up to interplanetary cricket. At that pace he'd be annihilated in the reduced gravity conditions on Pluto and he'd get no swing on Martian dust bowls, so completely toothless.
has more to do with his team becoming **** and his opposition team becoming stronger i would think
Batting line up for the 4th test was
IIRC they didn't drop Katich so much as his Achilles snapped in half or some other really bad injury and they never recalled him. Much to his displeasure.
This was those years when CW was in its most "Shield form uber alles" mindset - that you can and should shuffle batsmen in and out of the side based on their recent Test and FC form regardless of how "good" you think they are. This led to like a half decade of fundamentally mediocre batsmen being selected and quickly discarded when their season or so of good Shield form didn't translate into anything meaningful at the higher level.
yeah he suffered a serious injury and then, unsurprisingly after getting their butts kicked, Australia wanted to move on from one of their four 34yo + batters in their top 7. Couldn't drop Ponting. Hussey and Haddin were the only two to perform. Katich was already out of the team. He was the odd one out. the other option was to say to Hussey we don't trust your return to form but uh good thing they didn't do that
