Out Harwood, In Nannes

Posted by jrod on November 13, 2007 under VIC | Be the First to Comment

Shane Harwood has broken down again.

If he was a horse, someone would have put a screen up around him by now.

Its hard not to like the man, he is tough, fast, and bowls reverse swing.

And didn’t come through the namby pamby representative teams. He played country cricket, until he moved down to town to take his cricket seriously.

I’ve never met a Victorian cricket fan that has bad things to say about him.

They don’t build guys like Harwood very often, offcourse if they build someone like him, perhaps they’d make a model that needed less repairs.

Harwood has always reminded me of a boxer who spent all his time beating up guys in the car park, before someone threw some gloves on him.

The bushrangers seem to breed fast bowlers who are close to 30. I can’t remember the last time a young Victorian bowler came through and played more than a handful of games before disappearing.

The 30 year olds, Lewis and Harwood, especially have been damn good to Victoria. Winning us more games than anyone other than Matthew Elliott in the last ten years.

The latest in this line seems to be Dirk Nannes.

I must admit, before I ever saw him bowl I liked him. It’s the name, Dirk, Nannes, say it with me, DIRK, NANNES.

Best name ever.

Then I saw him bowl, and I liked him even more.

I like left arm quick bowlers, not left arm swing so much, but left arms quicks who bowl aggressively.

Nannes bowls with his heart, you can see it in every delivery.

Nannes is clearly not that best bowler in Victoria, but he does try harder than most, and he is a handful to play on his day.

You can’t imagine him ever not fighting for a wicket.

Harwood out, Nannes in. Warrior for warrior.