Billy the Kid is on the run

I was never a huge fan of Craig McDermott.

Not sure why.

It may have been his red hair.

I always though he was boring.

Or it could be the fact his test average of 28 was the same as Mervs, yet Merv was thought of as a plodder and McDermott was a superstar.

But since retirement McDermott has been much more entertaining than Merv.

Merv runs cricket tours, is a selector and doesn’t like the Mexican wave.

Craig takes people on tours of his home for Channel 9.

Loses raunchy sex tapes he made with the missus.

And runs large property companies into the ground until people are owed 40 million dollars.

All he needs is a cocaine influenced speech and a public toilet encounter with a man known as hoover, and his fall from grace would be Britneyesque.

McDermott was caught out by the Victorian fire department, who were obviously trying to right the wrongs committed against Merv Hughes during McDermott’s injury prone career.

I have two favourite McDermott memories.

Him bowling a full toss to Alec Stewart, I believe, first ball of the 5th day for and caught and bowled, on the same day Warne took his hattrick.

And when he had a real sook in on tour and AB threatened to send him home from England without his supper.

Read here (great Murdoch headline work), or here (to hear about how he is good in court), for further information on Craig’s shocking demise.www.cricketwithballs.com

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