Adam's helmet saves the day

I’m not going to go on and on about Victoria's very lucky win last night.

Mostly because the way they batted they would prefer me not too.

Wouldn’t want to offend anyone or bruise some egos.

I will say that they had the game completely in the grasp on a very tricky pitch but then that they batted themselves into a hole that only Crosthwaite’s helmet could get them out of.

Adam (x) charged down the wicket with 2 required with 3 balls and 2 wickets in hand and helmeted the ball away for a single to tie the scores, before Peter Siddle got the last run.

With X the Vics would have lost a game that should never have even been close.

X was booed at all times when he batted, but unlike Channel 9, Foxtel showed the boos and embraced them.

Future Pm David Hussey proved again that no matter what the surface is like, he can make runs. He batted so much better than any other batsmen in the game.

Cameron White was played back into form by a weird Marcus North decision to not bring on the quicks.

The commentators were going nuts about it, I have to agree, Tait and Malinga have gotten him with full quick straight ones recently and Edmondson is their side just for such an occasion.

One of White’s sixes has just entered Orbit.

Earlier in the day, the Vics bowled really well to restrict the very talented warriors batting line up to only 220 odd.

Cameron is finally bowling well again, in the words of my father, he was robbed of the plumbest LB’s and then got a shocker when he was batting.

Pattison did well again, which just proves that if you give a Victorian a blue top and tell him to bowl quick and he will do a good job.

The Vics were very very very lucky to win this, especially with Crosthwaite and McDonald making some very odd decisions at the end.

They have played some ordinary one day cricket this year and still look like making the finals.

That makes me happy.