Victoria – cry me a river

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There’s much talk about poor Victoria who will be forced to field an under strength team in tomorrow’s Twenty20 final. They’ve even tried to recruit Adam Gilchrist, which would have been awesome for the spectacle, but they obviously didn’t front up with enough cash.

Here’s who they’ll be missing tomorrow night

  • Brad Hodge – avg 42, sr 136. Top Twenty20 run-scorer in Australia. Top Twenty20 run-scorer in the world. Injured in Elimination Final.
  • David Hussey – avg 32, sr 140. Second top Twenty20 run scorer in Australia. Restrictive bowler. Playing for Oz.
  • Cameron White – avg 35, sr 154. Destructive batsman and part time bowler.

Boo fúcking hoo. I realise it’s a new experience for Victoria to lose players to the national setup, but this is something that happens to us all the time. Here’s the first choice players on our books that we’ll be missing tomorrow night:

  • Nathan Bracken – avg 19, eco 7. Worlds top ranked ODI and T20 bowler. Man-hair model. Playing for Australia
  • David Warner – avg 29.5, sr 150. Destructive opening batsman, playing for Oz.
  • Michael Clarke – avg 23, sr 130. Quality middle order batsman, economical bowler. Injured playing for Australia
  • Brad Haddin – avg 20, sr 110. Quality keeper and agressive batsman in superb form.
  • Stuart Clark – avg 18, eco 6.6. Econimical and threatining bowler. Injured playing for Oz
  • Nathan Hauritz – avg 15, eco 6.3. Restrictive bowler. Playing for Oz.

    I can’t work out why these articles only mention the absent Victorians. On the balance I’d say NSW are in fact more weakened through injury/abscence than Victoria, but obviously both teams are missing a lot of quality. Regardless, it’s hard to agree with the sob story coming from south of the border.

    • 4 thoughts on “Victoria – cry me a river”

    1. still cricket australia are being jerks in not releasing players. pithy attempt at showing who is the boss. it would be such a better match with everyone available!

    2. agreed, it would be nice to have full strength teams for both sides… but the final is pretty badly scheduled with them playing a day/night match today and the final just 20 hours after the end of this match.

      The preliminary final however, that was on Wednesday night in the middle of a 5 day break. With the winner of that match getting into the CL there was a lot riding on it, and some clemency would have been good.

    3. Well, umm, ya know, I think you is overstatin’ things a teensy bit to chase a comparison.

      The Vic papers have kicked up over McCullum, and probably figured that Gilly was a good back-page screamer, but the press here is only disappointed to lose Hodge in light of also missing Hussey and White. It’s a fair statement.

      The Age IS a Melbourne paper, so it stands to reason it would report on Vic players, but I didn’t detect any sour grapes sobbing in that story.

      It’s not as if the Tele doesn’t go completely spastic when NSW players are on the proverbial menu.

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