vics vs nsw day one

Posted by jrod on November 30, 2007 under VIC | 2 Comments to Read

Dirk “say it out loud” Nannes and Gerard Denton completely destroyed New South Wales today.

Unfortunately for them they couldn’t beat the West Australian Katich, the man who bats like a crab.

This year must have a new shell (boom). He’s made a kazillion runs, at an average that would make Hussey uncomfortable. He outscored his team mates by 30 runs. That’s a pretty good effort.

All day the Vics were only a Katich away from taking over. This didn’t happen until Dirty Dirk Nannes came on with the new ball.

Denton and he shared 4 wickets apiece.

You get the feeling that 250 may not be a terrible score in the scheme of things. Katich, other than a brief period against McGain, was mostly kept quiet, which means the deck must have had something in it.

Hodge sent the blues in, whether it was a strategic decision or he did a dravid/ganguly/tendulkar and was protecting his average we don’t know.

Wednesday’s destroyer Quiney lost his wicket on stumps to the oldest young dude on the planet Doug Bollinger.

If this wicket does have a bit of spice in it, then the majority of the runs will have to come from Hodge and Hussey.