Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Where is Grimsby?



Bored spectators,

What to make of the ill-fated, meaningless, 50-over tour of soggy ol' Engerland?
The 0-4 result certainly had the whole country all a twitter, and captured the imagination of the general public.
No idea why they played it at all, really.
MJ Clarke did not appear to be happy about any of it, claiming Australia had been "bewitched", "bullied" "blindsided" "hoodwinked", or some such euphemism, by an England side made up almost entirely of foreigners.
He must have been humming to himself...."Where is Johannesburg? That's in England! Where is Cape Town? That's in England! Where is Peitermaritzburg? That's in England! Where is Dublin? That's in England! Where is Perth, Western Australia? That's in England! Where is Copenhagen? That's in England! Where is Grimsby? That's in Lincolnshire."
No great worry, and certainly something that doesn't warrant anything like a Royal Commission.
Best left forgotten, as it surely will be.
Pup's record as an unbeaten skipper in a test series remains intact.
And let's face it, nothing else matters outside the Ashes when it comes to taking on the Old Enemy, and they've got exactly 12 months to get ready for that, with the first Ashes test due to start on 10 July 2013.
Perhaps Australia is the first of what will eventually be every country who've just given up on one-day cricket as a creaking, out-moded format well beyond its use by date, and will pour all their resources into the development of two very different, and hopefully very good teams in the Twenty20 and Test Match arena's.
Maybe it's time to let the Packer legacy go after all these years.
You know it makes sense.




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