Being a legspinner, it’s in my nature to have contempt for all offspinners. After all, finger spin is an inferior artform to wrist spin - like comparing checkers to chess. As Gideon Haigh puts it, offspin is cricket’s rubbish skill. Legspin, when administered correctly, is a delightful combination of drift, flight, spin and variations that conspires to bewilder and confound the batsman...
On days like today it can seem a mystery how Nathan Hauritz came to be Australia’s number one spinner. Fortunately, a leaked transcript has enabled The Corridor to reveal all… A newly-goateed Ricky Ponting is reclining in his office. He picks up the phone and dials a number. Ricky Ponting: Hi Jason? Aw, we’re gonna [...]
Shane Warne said that Nathan Hauritz was being given a crap field by Ricky Ponting today. Being as Hauritz went for 76 in 12 overs on a fifth day Indian pitch, we’d guess that Ponting was only using four or five fielders.
Hauritz is currently said to be Australia’s number one spinner. Quite apart from the [...]
Miriam writes:
Here is my cat Spartacus being conspicuously indifferent to Nathan Hauritz, just like the Australian selectors.
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