Saturday, 17 October 2009

The only Nathan Hauritz fan in town

Some of you may remember my minor ode to Nathan Hauritz's birthday roughly ten days ago. Well, the truth is I have no idea when his birthday is because Crapinfo have it as October 18th and Cricket Australia have it listed as October 8th.

So, as his only fan (except maybe his wife, but even that's a bit iffy), I have decided to celebrate both dates. Here are some of the things I plan to do for the big man's [2nd] 28th birthday:

1. Coerce to NSW to give him the day off - for the love of god, the man has been playing almost non-stop since May, let him have a rest on his [possible] birthday.

2. send him a birthday card allegedly from Little Andy Strauss that says "You are my arch nemesis, I am terrified of you".


3. Send him a signed photo of Geoffrey Boycott's gran with a note, allegedly from her, saying: "My little Geoffrey was wrong, you could bowl me out, you just choose not to".

4. Drink lots of wine and make mystery phone calls to his wife in Sydney.

5. Watch NSW kick Somerset's arse, all the time wishing I hadn't coerced them to give Hauritz the day off.

7 thoughts on this post:

Psych Babbler said...

Hehehe... :D

Purna said...

I'll be Geoffrey's gran and send him the photo for you Sid. And I really like number 4.

Sidthegnomenator said...

Excellent ... mwa hahaha ...

Anonymous said...

"Crapinfo have it as October 18th"

Just looking up the ODI squad at said website and seeing this:

Nathan Hauritz
Age: 27 years 356 days (wth?)

Mind you, today is the 25th haha.

But I think they mentioned his b-day around the Somerset match (18th), so... Maybe it is something like Easter, i.e. on a different day each year. Or it is like Divali... a matter of one's belief :D

zaina said...

well with all that you say you hardly sound like a fan. i think the major reason to appreciate him is his honesty about what actually he is ,and then lets not forget the boots he has to fill are awfully big.happy he has'nt cowed down under the pressure

Sidthegnomenator said...

I'm not quite sure where you got that from Zaina, but thanks for your comments anyway.

I would say the main reason to appreciate him is because he is a very under rated bowler, but you're right about his honesty as well. It is refreshing.

zaina said...

well you know for yourself then u gotta share him with an awful lot of fans.that title's unfair on us.he! he!