Legend of the Week

Now this is how you do it Martyn! In what I promise to be my last spray of a very lengthy and drawn out cricket season (will it ever end??!!) I have to pay kudos to the 'Best Nightwatchman in World Cricket History', the stonewall of mulleted defence, Mr Dizzy Gillespie.

Yes if you look closer at the stats you will note that he did indeed run out the captain with a current average of a gabillion for a misely 52, and was warned when he made eye contact with Punter as he begrudgingly trudged off the Bangladeshi dust ridden wicket "Get a hundred or you will never play test cricket again", but unlike my favourite Number 4 batsman who has 'unfortunately' returned home this week with a conveniently injured elbow (from Christ knows what - he did fuckall in the 1st test in case you hadnt read my previous post), Dizzy went on with the job and reached triple figures for the first time in his Test career.

Now here's a notion, call me crazy maybe, but considering Dizzy's putridness with the ball in the Ashes last year (he is on the road to forgiveness very slowly), I nominate the mulleted one to ditch the leather ball and don the pads as our new and vastly improved number 4 batsman, replacing you know who. We may have to improve his strike rate a little (100 runs off 300 deliveries) but with a few minor technique changes, I'm confident we've found our answer to the ever failing Martyn, particular in pressure cooker situations. Unfortunately Brad Hodge would again miss out ,which may again see him put on suicide watch, but I recommend Hodgey start rolling the arm over to compensate Gillespie's newly vacated Number 9 spot in the batting order. I promise this issue is closed.........until fucking Martyn fails again in the first test at the Gabba in November!!!!

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