Admit it - you all secretly love Nathan Hauritz! You know you do ...

From what I can make out, 2009 has gone something like this for Nathan Hauritz:

In South Africa in April

On to Pakistan in May


Over to England - which is what I remember in most detail. He played:

• every tour match through the entire summer
  
• every match of the T20 world cup (which, to be fair, wasn't many for Australia)
• the first three Ashes tests
• he did not play in the final 2 Ashes tests (to our detriment) but he did not know this until the morning of each of the tests, so he trained continually with the team just in case he was called upon
  
• he played all 7 ODIs
• he would have played in both of the abandoned T20 matched in Manchester

He went on to South Africa, where he played in every one of Australia's Champion's trophy matches - right through to the final

He went on to India where he played in every one of NSW's CLT20 matches - right through to the final

After said final, he arrived back at his hotel room after 1am in the morning and left again before 7 to join the national side in Vadodara with only 12 hours to rest before the toss

He has had no time off at all that I can see since April

And what's more - his bowling has improved as he has gone along

Is he crying over a sore elbow? no
Has he hurt his hamstring? no
Has he hurt his knee? no
Has he been injured at all? well, Little Andy tried at Lords but M'Lord NMH just bounced right back.
Is he a big crying girl like Mitchy? definitely not.

Now, either all of his muscles and one or two of his joints will implode sometime over the next two weeks or - and this is far more likely - you will all finally agree with me that Nathan Hauritz is infallibe, invincible and truly a God (albeit with moobs).

Graeme Swann certainly thinks so - he said as much in that interview I did with him.

And then you will get on your knees chanting "Sid was right, Sid was right" over and over.

ok?