WATCH OUT!
Cricket Australia have feet flailing... in every direction!
Jason Krejza's injury has caused a typical CA knee jerk reaction with the call up of Nathan Hauritz.
What? You say. Hauritz! Didn't he get a run a few years ago in Mumbai on a turning pitch and get out bowled by part timer M.Clarke, you say?
Yep!, And at the moment he has 6 wickets for 40.67 in the Sheffield shield.
So why has he been called up? Only because he has International experience.
CA is clearly running with their stop-gap policy for fear of condemnation if an inexperienced player fails to perform- even though Hauritz must be considered inexperienced with only one test and eight ODI's. But Australia are playing New Zealand and are one test up, why not blood a new player?
If there isn't another spinner available in the First class competition, why not dig out a 19 year old from grade cricket? Give him a run. He may be carted (most likely in Adelaide), but he may step up and prove to be another champ that just needed the pressure put on to extract his best, what do we have to lose?
Instead, CA just fall back on someone that had a chance - sure Hauritz is on 27 and only got one go at test level, but where is the foresight in picking someone that now at best can only give seven or eight years service?
If we are are "rebuilding" our national side, why a retrograde call-up?
Hear hear!
ReplyDeleteHauritz? he cant even get a game for NSW and even if he moved back to QLD he wouldn't get a game for the Bulls either.
Terry Jenner can't beleive it either!
There should be some type of national initiative to blood young spinners...Maybe requiring that each state MUST play a spinner in their side EVERY time they hit the field and must bowl a minimum number of overs.