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Loading ...Looking forward to this one. I don’t expect Australia to go out with a whimper but I they must be underdogs.
Australia crack open the bolly
By Will last year, at the start of January Add your comment below
Not that bolly. Doug Bollinger, the left-arm swing bowler, who will make his debut alongside the flame-haired Andrew McDonald (a batsman who bowls), as Australia attempt to avoid a 0-3 whitewash in their backyard. Can you believe it?
Bollinger, 27, seems to be an interesting character.
“I’m just going to go out there and just do what I’ve been doing for New South Wales and try swinging the ball,” he said. “Just try to intimidate batsmen and just try and be competitive. I’d just like to compete and do well, I’m not out there to make friends.”Graeme Smith and the South Africans do not know much about Bollinger, but they are learning quickly about his quirks.
“Any guy who is going to try 150,000% in this game is someone we’re going to have to respect,” Smith said teasingly. The tourists have traded jokes about Bollinger’s hair on the team bus, but say they won’t use them on the field.
It’s all setup beautifully if you’re not an Australian fan. Us Poms, well, we haven’t had much cause to peer down our noses with disparaging sympathy at our favourite cousins for years and years. Roll on the third Test (live scorecard).
Tags: andrew mcdonald, australia, doug bollinger, south-africa-in-australia |
5 Responses to “Australia crack open the bolly”
January 2nd, 2009 at 10.34 pm
January 2nd, 2009 at 10.52 pm
I think McDonald is a genuine allrounder rather than just a “batsman who bowls.” A batting average of 46 and a bowling average of 23 in this year’s Sheffield Shield backs that up.
As Smith said though, what was the point of selecting Hilfenhaus in the squad if he wasn’t Australia’s next best quick?
January 2nd, 2009 at 11.57 pm
I found a positive for Australia out of this series…
Punter is winning tosses again!!
January 3rd, 2009 at 10.32 pm
Bollinger has an *amazing* record at the SCG. He’s been truly lethal there in domestic cricket for a while now.
Hilfenhaus was picked because he’s expected to be there for the next tour of England as he’s the best suited to those conditions.
If Lee was playing and playing well, I think we would have seen an attack of Lee, Johnson, Hilfenhaus and Joe Random Spinner.
With Lee out, and Siddle not quite cutting it as a replacement (but doing a worth enough job), the selectors have decided to try Bollinger instead. There is some logic to it.
January 4th, 2009 at 2.03 am
So the talk now is about Bracken abandoning Cricket in Australia for Twenty20 in India.
He’s been treated shamefully by the selectors given he’s supposedly the best ODI bowler in the world…. I’d piss off if it was me.
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