Saturday 29th January, 2011
Dear Shane,
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We have a little problem, you and I. You see, I want to keep being mean to you but when I do nobody comments on my blog posts. This, I assume, is because you got all good with the ball as well as the bat. Bastard. And this single handedly saving our arse business - that's not really working for me. It's not that I don't want us to win, but it would be nice if others could contribute. This way, I can make fun of you and people won't think I'm being an ungrateful bitch.
Can you sort that for me? Please? In particular, if you manage getting Pup to bat better, I promise not to boo so loudly when he walks out to the middle. And that Hastings guy - I'm still not sure who he is but feed him some spinach or something, would you?
If you must get wickets, Shane, please can you jump like Brett when you do? Because that would be cool.
From Sid
x
P.S. Yes, yes - I'll send that pop-up book, but you have to promise to share it with Stevie. Ok?
16 thoughts on this post:
Clarke has improved! From getting scores around 0, to a half-century!
:P
(Although, he should be getting scores like that every week, and even higher.)
(And it won't make up for the crap he called "batting" during the Test matches.)
And yeah. Maybe they should give Watson a rest, and see if the team can flourish without him. Good luck with that. :/.
Nice thought.
I don't understand why you people hate Watson down under when we in India admire him and would love to have a guy like him in India.
Some weird things !
Govind, I only know one person who hates him. Everyone else likes him. I like him - I just find him so easy to make fun of. Bear in mind that I also make of Hauritz and he's pretty much the favourite current player.
Laura, I know Clarke has improved - that's what I was saying. Hence the date being the day before he improved.
I wish that if Watto plays well, he at least does something ridiculous occasionally, so he can be made fun of. It might be mean, but it doesn't feel normal when there's nothing about Watto to make fun of.
Pup can be glad his team have won already and might be a good idea as Laura suggested to give Watto a break and give the new guys a chance. Good to see Pup reviving his batting a bit but not sure how long it will last.
Sunny, I knew if anyone could understand my predicament it would be you, my fellow Watson pisstaker. You and Stani understand me so well.
It probably is a good idea to give him a rest. Sometimes I think they all just sit back and let him take over. Maybe resting him will force the others to show up once in a while. Sadly, I think Laura is also right when she says "good luck with that".
Without Mussey or Twatto, we would shrivel and die. Most likely.
Well Pup, he did take over well today and it's a good thing for him.
And oh, Stani, where has he been all the while? :(
Twatto is a slightly better than mediocre cricketer, who has been given more chances to succeed than even Marcus North. But for the grace of a wonky hamstring, we wouldn't have had Symonds in the XI, we would have had Twatto instead ... then too.
Quick now: when did Twatto actually win us a match? The only one I can think of was the ICC Champions Trophy (or whatever it's called) when he took apart a crippled Black Caps. (Anyone saying 'Pakistan', I will laugh.)
And that is quite apart from his cringeworthy antics when he takes a wicket (Chris Gayle, anyone?) even though he has toned them down a bit recently.
I admit he's not the deadest of the dead wood that needs to be cleared out of the Australian XI, but he's not a bit that necessarily needs to be saved either; we would do just fine without him.
It's funny to think that he only appeared as an opening batsman in 2009 and then that was to replace Phil Hughes. Phil Hughes was tried before him - what does that tell you?
I do like him as a batsman, as I keep saying despite the pisstaking, but I cringe every time he is tossed the ball. The T20 thing in the Caribbean was particularly awful for his bowling. It made me want to cry.
But then he bowls well once in a blue moon and I'm pleasantly surprised.
I did notice I got very few comments on my Watson pisstaking posts of late, so someone really loves him.
Think what annoys me most of all is all the harping on and on and on about how Twatto is our 'leading run scorer' and our 'leading wicket taker' when they've managed to select a top order batting line-up in particular that can't score runs for love or money. It doesn't prove that Twatto is worthwhile; it only proves how absolute crap the rest has been.
bettiwettiwoo
This mediocre line up you despise is hammering the Poms. Any Team in the world today will be happy to have a Watson in their line up.
I just can't understand what the problem is.
Well, it's funny, but I don't seem to be able to find, for example, Punter, Mussey, North, or Katich among the players in the Australian ODI XI that is busy 'hammering' England at the moment. Nor can I seem to find White, Dussey, or Ferguson in the Test XI that lost the Ashes. My bad, I'm sure. They're totally the same Xi really.
I also can't seem to find Australia in the ODI tri-nation series final that followed our Ashes win in 2007. You know: that Test series in which England got 'hammered' with a 0-5 whitewash. And the same 'winning-the-Ashes hangover' wouldn't apply to England, right?!
Finally: which player in the Indian, South African, English, or even the Pakistani XI would you not select in order to have Twatto in that team?
India: Yuveraj, Raina and even Kohli can be traded for Watson. In Tests, we will straight away retire Dravid.
South Africa: Any one other than Kallis, Amla and Boucher. Obvious choices: Alvero, Prince and Tsotsobe.
England: Collingwood, Morgan, Trott etc.
Pakistan: Well, for someone as fiercely proud of playing for his country, they can exchange whole of Pakistan.
I don't hate him, but I agree with Betti that he looks like our best bat in test cricket due to the frightening levels of mediocrity of the others in the top 5 (Hussey's whiz bang Ashes apart).
An opener who can't score tons is a big problem for a team that isn't West Indies or Bangladesh.
"Pakistan: Well, for someone as fiercely proud of playing for his country, they can exchange whole of Pakistan."
Round of applause for Govind. Good line.
It's true - he looks so much better than he is because everyone around him has been ordinary. He would be quickly forgotten if Ponting and Clarke were back at their best; he was forgotten about in Perth under the Hussey hype.
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