Well seeing the word cricket is prominent in the name of this blog, and the season is underway, maybe a few observations are necessary.
While we in Orvieto the Australian team played the first test against Pakistan in Dubai. I managed to check a few scores whenever I could access wi-fi. It all seemed to start so well with Johnson picking up a couple of early wickets but after that pretty much turned into a disaster. Then I get home and the selectors made the inspired decision to drop Doolan and O’Keefe and bring in a talented but under prepared Mitch Starc and the Big No Show with the latter to bat 3!! Is it just me, but at this point of his career, what does Maxwell offer at Test cricket level??
Funny, about 4-5 years ago when I was working at Hurstville, NSW and Victorian 2nd 11s played at Hurstville Oval. I managed to watch a fair bit of the game (don’t ask) as I was interested in a few of the guys Tim had played with at junior level, namely Scott Henry and Joe Mennie. And as it turned out there were a few future stars on show, Jackson Bird and Trent Copeland bowled well for NSW, Scott got a few and looked good, but the best bat on show by a fair way in my opinion was Rob Quiney from Victoria. Maxwell played and I don’t remember him doing much with bat or ball…Confidence is great in a cricketer but so is responsibility.
Turning to local cricket, it was good to see Uni of Newcastle having a good outright win over City last game followed by a win in 20/20! And as I type this on a Saturday afternoon NSW are playing Victoria and the top 3 for NSW are all Sydney Uni players, Carters, Nick Larkin and Henry. Nick is 60 odd not out, his first 50 for NSW in his second game and Scott 40 odd. Hope the older brother Ben Larkin gets amongst them for Newcastle Uni this year! Unfortunately Sydney Uni are struggling a little bit without their big three although Mark Faraday did get a 20 odd.
….…I forgot to publish this post…Nick Larkin ended up with 140 and Scott Henry 130 odd in the second innings as NSW won outright. And UNCC are second place in the NDCA competition. Go Unis
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