leaving town

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I’m here to announce a temporary halt to my blogging/writing career.

This is a very difficult situation for me to be in at this time, this is not an overnight decision but something that I've been struggling with for sometime. A break from cricket blogging will hopefully give me a clear mind and a chance for my body to rest and recover.

My love and enjoyment of blogging is struggling due to these issues and if I continue to go on it will be unfair on my readers - and most importantly my family and close friends."

I’ve had some discussions with the Cricket Bloggers Association medical staff and it is clear that I need a break from cricket blogging at all levels. I'll be working with the association going forward to ensure that whatever assistance I require is provided to me.

Ok so I’m not talking about me, I’m talking about Shaun Tait, one of the fastest bowlers in the world, and retiree at 25.

I understand how hard the cricket world can be, the groupies, the media, the mean batsman, and all those hotel rooms.

But perhaps his best medicine is not cricket Australia holding his hand, its them getting him a real job.

I suggest he gets a job as a factory worker, a call centre robot, a pensions lawyer or working for a bank.

Then see if his passion for cricket doesn’t magically come back.

I don’t know about you, but there probably isn’t an organ I wouldn’t donate to play test cricket, and there isn’t a relative I wouldn’t sell to bowl over 150 clicks.

Test cricket is hard, it’s not marshmallow or jelly baby cricket.

But short of a family member dying or a scientologist dating his ex girlfriend, I can’t think of one good reason why he would walk away from an international cricket career.

Is there really one of us who wouldn’t swap with him for even 8 minutes?

Cricket is only a game, but last time I checked most other jobs suck @ss in comparison.

Shaun, you have the rest of your life to be a nobody.

You can live in a cave with Damien Martyn, you can work for you local footy team, you can shave your nut sack and tattoo a smiley face on it or you can raise gay albino alpacas for all we care, but just don’t leave over trivial sh1t.

Because you will regret it, and we will regret it if they replace you with another probot.www.cricketwithballs.com "the hooking & pulling specialists"