Idle spectators,
What is it about MJ Clarke and India?
He returns to Bangalore where he made his test debut and tonked a ton, only to score 130 in a one-day game!
Only saw the newsreel highlights, but the kiddie was playing all the shots, pushing the field around and finding the gaps, not to mention the ten fours and the three over the top; never mind that he offered a few chances.
This after he’d spent the night before on the hurl due to a dodgy curry – he found the doctor at 1am – and told him he was “going both ends”.
On interview post game admitted that he was after no more than “time in the middle” after a “shocking twenty20 world cup”
Managed to keep the run rate at more than five an over throughout the partnership with Haddin.
Always rated Haddin as a bat after seeing plenty of him in first class cricket, and Gilly agrees he should get more gigs as a specialist bat in the one day game.
Good thing that Our Lara cashed in her ticket to India for one for the States, after seeing a photo of Pup on the slobber in South Africa.
One less distraction.
Noted also that Philip Anthony Jaques scored a couple of centuries for Australia A in the two four-day games against Pakistan A [which you’d have to doubt would have been granted first class status, even if they were] and come home from the most obscure tournament ever played, with an average of 123.33
The selectors would have taken notice on account of the tour was staged for their sole benefit.
And you can guess on that form, who will fill the vacant opener’s spot, given that the chairman and the three wise men have always been reluctant to mint a new baggy green on account of the dread fear of making a mistake, and Pro already has one.
