Fellow boosterists,
At long last, the Chairman and the Three Wise men appear to have come to their senses and seen the light when it comes to one MJ Clarke.
For two full seasons there they studiously ignored my repeated calls to pick the kiddie in the test team [in the end they got so sick of it, the selectors wouldn’t even pick up the phone] and when they finally did pick him he scores a century on debut.
Then relatively soon after they give the bloke a major league fright by dropping him, and then only reluctantly recall him only on account of injury to the extraordinarily brittle Shane “figjam” Watson, and then he goes on to pretty much win the Ashes off his own bat.
Now, if you believe the musings coming from influential mouths in Strayan cricket circles, Pup is by every account being groomed for the captaincy.
Der.
That was pretty obvious from the moment he stepped up to the plate, and he didn’t skipper the under 19’s, or Australia “A” on occasions, for nothing.
He’d better play better than he did in the 20/Twenty World Cup, and it’ll be interesting to see how he goes as skipper, as it’s by no means an easy format to captain.
There’s more tactical goings on and more thinking on your feet than is generally assumed by most spectators.
Interesting to note during his “humbled but honoured” acceptance speech, Pup was at pains to point out “make no mistake, Ricky Ponting is still the Captain of Australia”.
What?
Does that mean he won’t be the first to inflict multiple knife wounds to the back as soon as the bloke falls over?
Or will he just let others do it for him on his behalf?
I, for one, needless to say, will be in his corner.
PS Noted a quote from Our Lara midweek “before I became Michael’s boyfriend, I knew nothing about cricket”
It’s probably best left that way.
