day one from bizzaro world

I hate catches down the leg side.

I can never tell if they are out, and it’s just a sh1t way for a batsman to go.

Today Hussey went out on the last ball before tea, caught down the leg side, off Dominic Thornley.

If that isn’t enough to slit your wrists over, he was on 86.

Then Hodge does the same thing off Beau Casson, mind you his pain was less cause he made a ton.

Mind you by then Victoria had used the flat wicket to score more than enough runs for one day.

6 for 340 on the first day is better than a slap in the face from an angry woman.

Yet again the money men held us up, but at least Whitey made a fair dinkum contribution and we still have McDonald to bat with the tail.

The weirdest thing for the whole day goes to the NSWelsh and their selection process.

The game was played at the SCG, as far as I’m aware. And yet when Matthew Nicholson, the 52 year old fast bowler, got ill before the game they replaced him with a debutant opening batsmen to bat at number 6.

Good luck to Usman Khawaja, but he obviously wasn’t going to take the new ball.

I’m glad the kid got a go, but isn’t it odd, that they would replace a bowler with a batsman.

NSWales only has 2 full time bowlers in this side, the game they have to win to get a home final, how stupid is that.

Beau Casson had none for 58 off ten at one stage, he may have been a full time bowler once upon a time, but no more.

Moises Enriques is a kid with more talent than Spiderman, but he is still young and is nowhere near a first tier bowler.

So if it is a home game, and Nicholson came down with the sniffles, why would they not replace him with another bowler, it defies all logic, unless we are in bizzarro world, are we in bizzaro world?

The Vics are in a good position, but their bowling line up scares me.

McKay and Pattinson may be good bowlers, but at this stage I do not have a zealotry belief in their talents.

However if we get to 450 tomorrow and then bowl them out for 83 I’ll prostrate myself before them.