I guess Brad Hodge has decided that he's no chance of playing for Australia again, and has accordingly decided to let rip. Laughable that he was ignored for so long & then got dropped 2 weeks after making a double hundred. ( Not without precedent though, coz the same thing happened to Jason Gilllespie !!!) Certainly would never have happened to anyone from a postcode starting with 2...
Tom Moody got dropped after averaging 70+ in a test series. (Mark Taylor remained captain for 2 years after averaging less than 25)
Jamie Siddons never played a test!!!! (Nathan Bracken got selected for Australia after taking 11 Shield wickets!!!)
Darren Lehman was almost arthritic before he got picked in an Aust squad. (Michael Clarke gets selected before he's started shaving,).
Christ!, Richie Robertson made 7 Sheffield hundreds on the trot & still couldn't get a game. In the same year, McCosker makes 3 tons & bingo!, in he goes.
Ponting was smart enough to work out that he needed to move to Sydney to get, & keep the job. ( 2 Ashes losses won't hurt coz his phone number now starts with 02..)
Good on the Poms for beating the NSW Test team. I'll show some interest when we select a team that represents the best of the whole country, not just the apparent centre of the universe.
