I am heading across the Tasman tomorrow morning to watch the three Super Series one day matches in Melbourne. The hype for the series is starting to build and a few interesting stories are beginning to leak out. In the Melbourne Age Dan Vettori almost lets slip that he thinks Darryl Hair is a wanker. Dan was probably expecting to spend his whole day talking to the press, but suddenly found himself playing in the warm-up match. He had a quiet game, scoring 1 not out and taking 1-44 off seven overs.
Another player to comment on the upcoming series is Adam Gilchrist, who says the games should not be given full international status.
Mike on Cricket's favourite cricket-writer, Peter Roebuck, is in Africa where he sheds a few ageing chest-nuts about captain's past in an analysis of captaining the World XI. As usual, Ian Chappell hears something and immediately wants to throw in his two cents worth - dissing Graeme Smith and stating (fairly convincingly) that Michael Vaughan or Stephen Fleming would have been much better choices.
Okay. That should keep you busy for a little while. Posting is likely to be a little light while I am away, so feel free to talk amongst your selves via the comments pages.
Monday, 3 October 2005
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I have to agree wholeheartedly with Gilchrist. The matches will be great, particularly the one-dayers (Mike - I'm so envious), but I don't think they'll be played with the intensity that internationals are normally played with. At the end of the day, what will it matter if either team loses - who will care? Do we particularly care about the rest of the world team, even with one New Zealander? And giving a six-day match official test status is silly.
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