Friday, January 18, 2008

dirty dirk, supervillians and a really good english spinner

I got some things to say that won’t make a full days news.

The Herald Sun, Murdochs flag ship Australian paper ran a full article on Dirty Dirk Nannes today.

They offcourse didn’t refer to him as Dirty.

Well Herald Sun, I wrote my profile without any research on the 14th of January, 5 days before your Michael Horan produced his.

In fact I first wrote about him on the 14th of November. I didn’t wait until i had facts or he won the 2020 championship to write about him.


Another great name has come to my attention.

Albie Morkel.

He is a south African all rounder, so he is bound to be a disappointment.

His brother, who has played a test has an even better name.

Morne Morkel.

Sounds like a super villain, I can see him stroking his white cat as I write this.


Sacqlain Mushtaq has always been my favourite finger spinner.

The famous test where he destroyed Australia in the first innings in Hobart was out standing. Unfortunately in the second innings Gilly continually put him out of the ground.

I’m not really a huge fan of watching finger spinners, unless they are @ss clowns like Tufnell, Symcox or Matthews. But from the first moment I saw Saqlain Mushtaq I liked him.

Let us not forget he all but invented the doosra, before the doosra became a split personality and took him over like Tyler Durden.

Then he disappeared and I was sad, but now he is back and wants to play for England, and I am happy.

Mind you i have know about this for quite a long time, because my friend at King Cricket is always on the ball. Respect Homey.www.cricketwithballs.com "the hooking & pulling specialists"

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