Posted by jrod on October 26, 2008 under QLD, VIC | 
Victoria continue their pretty annihilation of the New Texas bulls.
Queensland may not be very good, but Victoria has chased in twice this week, this time with a bonus point.
It all started when the angry man was released from his cage.
2/18 off 8 with brutal snarling and the like is good numbers from harwood.
Apparently he doesn’t like being ridiculed in the media, and Queensland found out the hard way.
Queensland got to 220 odd, and that was not enough.
10 point Quiney is loving playing the bulls this week, and he continued his good form in one day cricket from last year with a 70 at better than a run a ball.
The usual suspects of Hodge and Hussey helped.
And the bonus point will work out well.
2 from 2 in the one day arena, ofcourse we are still yet to play anyone.
Posted by Moses on October 24, 2008 under NSW, SA |
Man Hair
Bloody Hell, we lost to the Redbacks! Surely even NSW F should be able to whip the whipping boys, but Shaun Tait with 5/27 says No. Mind you, Shaun Tait also says he should go to India due to his impressive record against them (21 overs, 1 maiden, 0/92 in Perth) and his proven ability to reverse swing the white ball implying he’ll find the magic with the SG Ball that the incumbent Baggy Green bowlers and their coach one Troy Cooley have thus far failed to. Life must be just peachy in Shaun’s Head.
Now I’m not going to make excuses for the loss, by all accounts Tait was devastating with the ball, and it’s not like losing our top 27 players to an India tour and another to a debilitating man-hair injury has adversely effected us.
As long as NSW continue to breed the big names we should pull through this season, and if we can find a way to make the finals then get our big guns back we’ll probably win the Shield, again.
Posted by jrod on under VIC |
Brad Hodge is now the greatest run scorer in Victorian History, and will soon be the most capped player in history.
Hodge has now scored more runs than Deano, so the legacy has been passed from legend to ego.
Old school Victorian supporters might remember when Hodge debuted for Victoria.
I didn’t look it up, but he scored something like 900 runs as a teenager and as a state we got very excited.
Then came the wandering in the desert period.
Hodge spent a lot of time outside of the team, something that is almost never mentioned these days.
Most Victorians had given up on him, when he did play he almost never made hundreds, and only ever showed flashes of being the real deal.
For modern fans, the Michael Klinger story is very similar, both playing as teenagers, impressing everyone and then losing the plot, and being picked more on potential but dumped when there was a real performer beneath them.
Then it all clicked, for hodge, not klinger, not sure what changed it, but am glad it did, because it produced a run scoring machine.
In the modern era only Deano and Elliott had a better averages for Victoria, but only just.
Being the highest scorer in your states history is quite an achievement, but it also shows that you have not played enough international cricket.
Hodge is always one of the first to say he should be selected, but we have our fate in our own hands, and if he had worked out his game in his early 20’s, he could be a 100 test player by now, instead of a fill in with a phenomenal average.
He will always be remembered as one of the best Victorian batsmen, maybe not on the top tear, which is Ponsford and Harvey.
Not quite on the 2nd tier which is Armstrong, Lawry, Hassett, and Jones.
But with the third tier of Yallop, Elliott, Redpath, and Ryder.
Which would be enough for most, but probably not for Mr Hodge.
I have never warmed to Hodge, and anyone who reads this site will know he is not my favourite, or 12th favourite player.
One thing I can say though, is that I am glad he is one of us, because if he wasn’t I would hate him a lot more, and I would have to watch him make hundreds against us.
In his early 20’s he would have had offers from other states, and he stayed true, you have to respect that.
So, and it’s not easy for me to say this Brad, congratulations on your milestones, you deserve them.
Posted by jrod on October 23, 2008 under QLD, VIC |
Sometimes when you are the bigger man, you need to pick up your family, your friends, your team mates and say, this one is on me.
Dirty Dirk Nannes had one of those games.
He started with 4 wickets in the first innings.
4 of the only 5 batsmen Queensland have, Hopes, Love, Noffke and Harris.
Then when he batted, which he does with no skill at all, he got 10 points Quiney to his maiden first class hundred, and put on a lazy 70 odd for the last wicket.
He made a solid 16*.
That would have been enough for a normal man.
Dirty Dirk is no normal man.
He is the Genghis Khan of modern first class cricket.
He is a beast.
He is Elvis pre jump suit days.
He is the freakin Predator of Victorian cricket.
So he follows up his excellent all round performances with a devastating 7/50.
GAME OVER MAN, GAME OVER.
He came, he saw, they paint balled.
Would the Cricket Victorian person who called him a hack please resign, you’re embarrassing yourself.
What I wouldn’t have given to watch the big fella destroy the New Texas bulls.
Dirty Dirk in full brutal flight is like nothing you have seen.
When those limbs come in at full pace you are not sure if he is going to hip and shoulder the umpire, clean bowl someone or fall over.
The action is one of such ungraceful beauty, that it defies words.
Dirty Dirk just has to be seen to be believed.
And apparently the bulls didn’t see too much of him.
Back to the game…
It wasn’t overly impressive, other than DD and 10 points.
Chris Rogers made ANOTHER half century, and Wright did well with 4 first innings wickets, i’m slowly warming to Gerard.
Jon Holland was rested incase he had to travel to India, i suppose.
Victoria really needed this, you can’t play the two worst teams in the comp to start with and not get some points from it, but more importantly, it was a brutal victory and 10 points finally broke his hoodoo.
Special points should go to David Hussey for having the balls to say the Angry man Harwood “isnt the smartest guy going around”.
Well done boys.
Posted by jrod on October 17, 2008 under SA, VIC |
Graham Manou.
After his team scramble on the back of the Hebrew Hammer’s 150, and then bowl out the Victorians for 150, South Australia only needed 270 with 60 overs to get them in.
A pretty good chase for a team that had 6 for 473 scored off them in the first innings.
It takes guts to go for it, but the only way your team gets points in this match is if you get there.
So what do South Australia do, play out the draw, and, only just.
According to the reports they flirted with the win at times.
Yet none of their top 5 scored at better than a run every two balls.
Manou seemed happy with the result, because they didn’t lose.
What sort of attitude is that?
English?
They get the same points for a loss as they do for a draw, and how many games do you get the opportunity to win when the other team declare in the first innings.
All the hard work of the Hebrew hammer, meant shit.
All the hard work of O’Brien, Cullen and Tait, meant shit.
Manou, I think you’re a tough cricketer, and you have a huge heart for a fight, but if you think this is the way to bring on a young team then you are a fuckwit.
In his presser he said,
“Look, we competed against a group that played in all three finals last year and we only gave them two points,”.
No one wants to survive Graham, people want to live.
Oh, and don’t think you are off the hook Victoria’s middle and late order.
When I spoke to Bryce a few months ago, I said it’s as if Victoria doesn’t feel like they are in a game unless they have dramatic collapse.
He said they were working on it.
I am not sure they can work on it, it’s a deep seated psychological sexual sado masocistic thing with Victoria, and it shits me to the core.
Well played Sot.
Posted by jrod on October 16, 2008 under SA, VIC |
How does the world work.
I am at a loss.
We spent years playing the Hebrew hammer, also known as South Australia’s Michel Klinger, with no results.
It would be fair to say that he was ordinary at best for Victoria.
Ordinary was a great moment when Klinger played for us.
But he spends 8 minutes in radelaide and he can make 150.
In 39 games for us his top score was 107 and one game Pistol was so bored he declared on him at 99.
For fucks sake it took him 7 years to make his first class debut, I would have backed myself to ass one by then.
I played in the same dowling tournament as he did, I remember the wraps on him, and then he went on to captain Australia Under 19’s and play for Victoria as a teenager.
But what did he produe for Victoria, less than fuck all at an average of 26.
And then when Victoria needs to get off to a cracker of a start to the season, Klinger steps up and plays a real innings.
39 times he played for Victoria, and nothing, one game for the redonkbacks and he slaps one up straight away, against real bowlers as well.
Damien Wright wasn’t playing.
The game is still open, Victoria are 170 odd ahead, and need to declare with some sort of a target for South Australia to win.
At least one thing is for sure, if Victoria sets a decent target, Klinger won’t score a run a ball hundred to win it for Sa.
That is not possible.
Is it?
Posted by Moses on October 15, 2008 under NSW, VIC, WA |
Sheffield Shield coverage at Beer and Sport will be postponed until the commencement of the NSW Bluetongues’ campaign.
So onto more distracting issues, like John Rogers. John is a simple man, and like many of his generation has strong values of honesty, integrity, and dignity. John believes in one club for life. This was made somewhat easier for John as he wasn’t very good and only played 4 first class matches, but true to his ethics they were all for his beloved New South Wales.
It pains John to recall the tale of his son Chris , who holds the rare blemish as the only Australian ever to hit a double century against Australia. It was Chris Rogers demorilising of Lee, Gillespie, Kasprowicz and Macgill that started the 2005 rot that led into a ODI loss to Bangladesh and concluded with the poms in an open topped bus.
The anguish that poor John suffers when regailing the career of his foreyed ranga slut of a son Chris is unbearable. Here is a one club for life man who’s son has so far graced the rosters of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Shropshire, Western Australia, Victoria, and Australia.
In April Chris walked out on his contract with Western Australia, a curious move considering he’d just cracked the national setup, and one must ask as to the motivation for this move. The official line from camp Rogers was his frustration at being ommited from WA’s One Day squad. He had offers from Queensland, South Australia and Victoria, and to understand where Chris Rogers’ priorities lay, the benefits of playing each state have to be examined.
Queensland would have been a disaster for Rogers. His gingah hair and fair complexion would have been no match for the harsh Gabba sun.
South Australia on paper offered the best package. It was rumoured he’d get the captaincy, they are completely and utterly shithouse in the batting department so he’d be worshipped by all 7 SACA members, plus the Adelaide Zoo offers free entry to Rangas, themselves an endagered species according to Zoos SA’s director of conservation programs Kevin Evans.
Finally there was Victoria, and this could prove to be the final nail in his loyal fathers coffin, a man who’s life has been spent fostering a hatred of those damn mexicans with mobiles.
The plusses would be playing in the countries second best state side, not having to face Dirk Nannes, and inclusion in the shortened format of the game. But when it came time to talk turkey, none of these things mattered.
Chris is 31 years old, mostly blind, and wholly red haired. Peroxide and laser eye surgery are not cheap so he’d gone to the Mexicans, and here is why: Victoria are playing in the world T20 club championship. This is in India. The IPL is in India. $$$$$$$$$$$
Posted by jrod on under SA, VIC |
Hodge and Hussey decided that their work was done yesterday.
But Andrew McDonald popped in with a 60, because that seems to be the plan with read head Victorian batsmen these days.
And 10 points Quiney put some red ink into his average.
Then they declared.
And South Australia batted like a comatose mormon.
110 runs in 55 overs.
On a pitch where SOT Jewell scored at a decent rate.
Plant held steady for 48 from 158.
Harris flew to 18 off 80 before McDonald got his wicket.
And then Victoria’s Ex Hebrew Hammer really took them apart.
He played an innings that I am so glad he didn’t play for us, 31 runs for 101 balls.
I saw Klinger play so many innings like this, the sort of innings that makes you want to give your eyes to a young albino kid.
He is the sort of batsman who can face 100 balls and still look like he is facing his first ball.
And Klinger at 3, wow, the boy can bat, true, but he does so at a pace that won’t win you anything, and he usually doesn’t finish off with a hundred anyway.
How bad are South Australia.
That was rhetorical, we all know.
If South Australia keep batting at this pace, they should’ve gone past Victoria’s score by Christmas.
Posted by jrod on October 14, 2008 under SA, VIC |
I had a feeling this would be Nick Jewell’s year.
Twice I had talked him u in my previews.
I wish I could say it was based on something other than just his 99 in the shield final, and a hunch, but regardless, his chickens is coming home to roost.
He has started the season with a whack and wallop against South Australia.
Now you may say, well, it was only South Australia, and all they have is old man Rofe, the non depressed Tait and a bunch of other nobodies, but I think this is a further step in Nick taking over the top of the order.
160 odd is good, but he also outscored Rogers and Hodge at times, there were times last year he couldn’t have outscored Klinger.
Having Sot in form is really the jewell in the crown, not really, just thought that would be corny.
This has to be his time, he is playing with a top order that has 2 test players, both with over 10,000 runs, and a number 4 as good as anyone out there.
It’s now or forget it for Jewell.
And this is the way to start a year.
South Australia is the prefect practice game, last yea he was great in the final, but was ordinary all year, but he also had no partner.
Chris Rogers is a partner, and then some.
Jewell has no excuses, he has stood up to Brett Lee, he has started sith a big hundred, this has to be his 1000 run year.
And if it is, then Victoria has one hell of a top order.
Rogers and Jewell performing the duties of steady starts, and then Hussey and Hodge coming in with the dynamite and liquor to destroy the place.
I like the look of this season.
Although Chris Rogers can stop with the 60 odds already, 2 is enough now, we get it you can bat, now make a tonne already.
Also Damien Wright didn’t get a game, I like that too.
Good start boys, now finish it off.
Posted by jrod on October 12, 2008 under VIC |
A new dawn for Victoria is around the corner.
One based on an endless supply of quality quick bowlers and a proper top order.
Ok we only beat South Australia in a one dayer and I may be getting ahead of myself, but fuck it.
The answer to the question, who is Jon Holland, is a bloke who looks like h can bowl.
2 wickets, Future PM D Hussey said he was the catalyst, and everyone seems impressed.
Chris Rogers strode into one day cricket like he owned the joint.
The truth is though that ginger cricketers have always played good one day cricket, the red ball is too much competition for them.
Back to the game though, Brad Ego took the South Australian bowlers to the cleaners.
One of those bowlers is the mule Alan Wise, you may remember him from 2000 & 3, but he has hardly played for Victoria since then.
Also Victoria’s ex Hebrew Hammer, Michael Klinger, played, he made a dashing 17 off 37 balls.
Which overshadowed Chris Rogers 60 and Rob Quiney’s 40.
Obviously.
Good practice game, now finish them off in the 4 day game boys.
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