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General Cricket => Players => Topic started by: langer17 on March 06, 2011, 04:41:14 PM
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Common sense has prevailed: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/cricket-world-cup/mike-hussey-added-to-world-cup-squad/story-fn67w6pa-1226016817544
Hussey has been picked as Doug Bollinger's replacment for the world cup. Can't believe they originally left one of the best finishers and players of spin in the world out of their squad.
Better late than never I suppose.
Now, who do you think will lose their place in the team: Cameron White, or, David Hussey. White is in all sort's at the moment, and personally I don't like him, so he's got to go. At least David Hussey has got a couple of 50's over the 10 or so one dayers he's played this year, opposed to white's none.
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In case u didnt know, he was injured. So it wasnt a matter of him being "originally LEFT OUT" but more a matter of him not being available for the first few games which is something Andrew Hilditch & co. were trying to avoid
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No, I know very well that he was injured - I was watching the game when he did it and I knew straight away as I've seen it happen in realy life awswell. Plus he is my favourite player, so I keep up to date with news about him.
The precedent was set in the 2007 world cup when Andrew Symonds tore his bicep off the bone. At the very best, the first game he would have been able to play was the 4th one, but he was taken because he has the ability to win games.
Hussey was predicted to be availiable by game 2 and at worst game 3. As it turns out, Hussey was able to play 2 weeks ago for WA, but CA didn't want to look totally stupid so they told WA that he wasn't to play, so he didn't. He played in a shild game which started on thursday, and he has pulled up 100%. So he would have been able to play the Sri Lanka game.
My point was that he is clearly one of the best finishers and players of spin in the world - probably the best at both, and playing in India means they would need him even more. So he wouldn't have played game 1 and probably game 2, big deal, they were against 2 minow teams and if we couldn't beat them without him, then Australia wouldn't have deserved to win the Cup. But having him in the team makes the team go from maybe 80 out of 100, to, 90 out of 100. Without him Australia have a very shaky midde order, and I said as soon as they left him out, that it would cost Australia at some stage. I bet you now that he is in, he will win Australia a game that they look down and out of.
I can see the point not wanting to risk him, but someone of his ability is someone you would/should risk every day of the week. The Aussie selectors have not been good at all this summer so this was to be expected, but at least they got it right and fixed it.
Lol, you thought I didn't know, ahahha. I'm a cricket nut :D
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Bottom line is that the selctors went one way and it turned out that they were left red faced and looking stupid, as he was pretty much fully fit by game 2.
But that was to be expected after the absolute shocker the selectors had during the Ashes.
They had set a precedent with Symonds, so you can't turn around and say no to another players, when the injury isn't as bad as the precedent case.
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I think the Aussie selectors are doing a great job ;)
Hussey is a player worth taking a risk on he was australias best bat all through the ashes so was in form
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I think the Aussie selectors are doing a great job ;)
Hussey is a player worth taking a risk on he was australias best bat all through the ashes so was in form
Don't even get me started on the selector's.
That's why I couldn't understand it. He is by far our best one day player, and he was clearly our best batsmen in the Ashes. Plus the precedent had been set with syomnds in 07.
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who knows with selctors some of ours have been very pants in the past
but i agree with the hussey thing only worry for you guys is they have replaced a bowler with a batsmen so may leave you a little short thoughts?
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who cares about the convicts
the Pom Juggernaut is in swing now
Hows that Gladiator going Langs....
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Looks like we maybe ok if we only face the bigger sides
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who knows with selctors some of ours have been very pants in the past
but i agree with the hussey thing only worry for you guys is they have replaced a bowler with a batsmen so may leave you a little short thoughts?
They also bought Nannes over aswell to train with the sqaud, so if someone does get injured and has to leave, then they have him as cover. It is in the story above.
who cares about the convicts
the Pom Juggernaut is in swing now
Hows that Gladiator going Langs....
ahah, almost lose to the Netherlands, lose to Ireland, beat South Africa. What's going on, ahah.
Good mate, I havent finished fully knokcing it in, but I'm close so I'll use it in finals for sure. Today we batted after rolling the other team, and of the first 15 overs we faced, I apparently faced 12 of them myself, LOL. I got out and they told me and I had no Idea that I had completely hogged the strike. Not really relevant but I thought that it was funny
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Don't get me started on our selectors either, now there's a few blokes that should have rocks thrown at them!
The news about Huss is the first time I've felt we can 'fourpeat' who should make way? White - he's not up to it
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In my view everyone can learn something from Mike Hussey.
This is in Cricinfo today by Ian Chappell...
http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/531884.html
One of the more intriguing aspects of the drastic changes in cricket in the last five years is the ongoing effect that the Twenty20 explosion has had on batting. There's also no doubt that, and the huge increase in the number of 50-over matches since the beginning of the nineties, has had a flow-on effect of speeding up scoring in Test cricket. This in turn - along with other factors, like making up lost time - has led to a welcome spike in the number of results achieved in Test cricket.
While this makes Test cricket more marketable, an obsession with quicker scoring could obliterate the desire for technical efficiency. Taken to its logical conclusion this imbalance would have a detrimental effect on not only the aesthetics of the longer game but also on the thrill of the contest.
The bowlers have always been the more efficient innovators and boundary-obsessed batsmen play right into their hands. Suicidal strokeplay and the increased instances of lbw, facilitated by the DRS, would put the balance firmly in favour of the ball on all but the flattest of pitches. No one wants to endure the tedium of five-day cricket on flat pitches. Therefore the balance between bat and ball will only remain a reality through even-handed law-making, rational scheduling and common-sense coaching.
While we haven't yet seen a batsman bred on a diet of T20 cricket reach the Test arena, it's interesting to compare the careers of India's Suresh Raina with Australia's Michael Hussey.
Raina is a left-hander of the modern generation, while Hussey is one from the old school. Raina has played a role in India's success in the shorter versions of the game, but was also part of the problem in their recent abject failure in the Test series in England. He can thrash an attack when the field is spread and the bowling restricted, but crowd him and apply the threat of short-pitched bowling and it brings a reaction similar to that of Superman exposed to Kryptonite.
Hussey can survive and then prosper in alien conditions, as he showed on a difficult pitch in Galle. His disciplined innings helped Australia take a series lead. Contrast that knock with his whirlwind strokeplay that helped Australia snatch victory from the jaws of defeat in the World T20 semi-final against Pakistan in 2010.
Hussey is a complete batsman, one who can easily adapt to the game situation; Raina is a talented batsman with a fatal flaw that wasn't addressed in his formative years. Hussey did benefit from starting out in an era where the system provided an opportunity for the vigilant batsman to fully develop; Raina is maturing in a cricket world where the ethos seems to be "more haste, less care".
Now is the time for good cricket minds to invest some thought in the way young batsmen are prepared in the future. The aim should be to produce players with Hussey's assets: the ability to preserve one's wicket when needed and dash a bowler's hopes when the situation demands. That coaching aim, allied with the vision to let batsmen retain their natural tendencies, would be a good starting point.
It's crucial for a batsman with international ambitions to be able to play all the shots. What then separates the successful players from those who fade quickly is the knowledge of when to utilise the different weapons in one's armoury. A wise army general doesn't order machine-gun fire when the situation calls for heavy artillery.
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Some player! I'm a huge fan of Mike Hussey for all of the reasons above! Class player in all forms of the game!
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The T20 world cup innings against Pak. . .is the best ive ever seen.
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Topic edited to stop the pollution of my thread.
Please can we stay on topic...
thanks
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Also glad to see Shaun Marsh getting a go in the side. Always thought he's been an under-rated member of the Australian cricketing fraternity.
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back on topic Buzz , what did you edit ?
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'Form is temporary, class is permanent'
He indeed is Mr. Cricket, top player.
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back on topic Buzz , what did you edit ?
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A load of irrelevant and unnecessary posts.
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Mike Hussey 3 consecutive man of the matches, man of the series and 1000 runs in the last 8 tests...WHAT A LEGEND!!!!
And 36 years of age
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He is a classy player and can even bowl a bit too!
I like the fact that he can adapt from Test format to other formats quite easily - he may be 36 but if he's still playing superbly well, then keep playing him! Simples!
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And to think that he was going to be dropped before the ashes. Shows what loyalty can do
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Hussey's 195 at the gabba during the Ashes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wENJKWNnzvY&feature=related
I can't watch this because it has been blocked in Australia due to copyright grounds. You guys might be able to see it though.
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Nope it's blocked for me too in England. :(
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never seen anyone with such a desperate craving for runs, love his attitude and single mindedness.
its like he needs nicorette gum to reduce his addiction!
quick runs, gritty runs, pretty runs, ugly runs... he loves them all equally, and looks like a broken man every time he has to walk off but then goes and practices the (No Swearing Please) off whatever it was that he didnt do well before.
he lives the game, and i am constantly in awe of his professionalism.
hes the reason behind my screen name for these facts!
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Cooks not bad either!
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Cooks not bad either!
He's an exceptional cook, does a lovely shepherd's pie.
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*run pie, he thinks of one thing only.
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Whats going on here. Hussey in a Masuri, what is this sorcery. LOL
http://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/australian-batsman-mike-hussey-plays-a-shot-during-a-news-photo/136836568
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Whats going on here. Hussey in a Masuri, what is this sorcery. LOL
[url]http://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/news-photo/australian-batsman-mike-hussey-plays-a-shot-during-a-news-photo/136836568[/url]
Eyes closed and looks like he might be late on it
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Michael Hussey is Mr. Cricket. Especially love the part about the bowling machine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOXaqICSDcE&feature=plcp&context=C30d9c47UDOEgsToPDskJjyEzW37FuMK76a0L5l8Ww
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brilliant, getting his wife to do it and on xmas day. I suggested that to my wife but she pointed out:-
1. We don't have a bowling machine
2. She is a Methodist Minister and she's not doing it after 2 midnight masses and 2 morning services
Scuppered by the her indoors. Just have to wait for her to do a few more weddings/funerals to top up my bat fund ;)
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Michael Hussey is Mr. Cricket. Especially love the part about the bowling machine.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOXaqICSDcE&feature=plcp&context=C30d9c47UDOEgsToPDskJjyEzW37FuMK76a0L5l8Ww[/url]
That is gold!
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Unreal!
I think every cricketer needs a wife/girlfriend that will feed the bowling machine on Christmas day!
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The potential greatness of Mike Hussey
Any bowlers, any conditions, any format from anywhere in the order, Australia's Mike Hussey is ready to face them all
http://theoldbatsman.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/potential-greatness-of-michael-hussey.html
Any batsman aspiring to greatness should want to be great in all situations: all conditions against all types of bowling in all formats. It has always been that way, since Grace yearned to go to Australia – admittedly partly for the cash and the honeymoon, but also so that they could witness his mastery.
Here is a set of averages that suggest contemporary greatness: Tests 50.62; one-day internationals 48.27; Twenty20 internationals 37.85; First class 52.32; List A 44.43; T20 41.46. They belong to Mike Hussey, a batsman to whom hype, and by extension full consideration, somehow refuse to attach themselves.
Almost everything about Hussey mitigates against anointment. He did not get into the Test team until he was 30 years old, hardly a prodigy, and then it was as an opener, a position he quickly ceded to a returning Justin Langer. His vast early successes – 1,000 Test runs in 166 days, an average of 86 for his first two years, another of 100.22 by his 32nd ODI cap – were airily dismissed as unsustainable (you don't say) and compromised by the relentless excellence of the team he was playing in. Hussey was simply working over opponents already half-out on the ropes.
Then there was the question of his image. In among his team of hard-nuts, wise-asses, muggers, brawlers and flawed geniuses, Hussey, sweetly, was the self-styled Mr Cricket, that rarest of things in pro sport – an enthusiast. It was almost heartbreaking when, in the gauche early days, he went out in a T20 international with the nickname on the back of his shirt.
The averages returned to a mortal framework during the rough run of 2008-09, and yet still he scurried to the crease in that way of his, like a man trying to get past the local delinquents on his way to the shops. He had enough about him to know that things would turn back his way, because there was no discernible weakness in his game, no gaping hole in technique. He was just getting out, as everyone does.
It is easy then, to explain why Hussey isn't great. It is tougher to accept that he may be. But here it is: he eked out the 30-odd runs to win a tight Test in Barbados. Eighteen months ago, a plane hop away in St Lucia, he won a T20 World Cup semi-final with 60 from 24 balls, an innings of shattering brilliance. In between, he made 195, 93, 52, 61 and 116 in consecutive knocks against England in an Ashes series in which his colleagues were humiliated.
Any bowlers, any conditions, any format from anywhere in the order, Hussey is ready. Even the way he applies his sunscreen says something about his character. The prominent nose is smothered, and the lips, but so too are the lobes of his ears – sure enough, they can be glimpsed through the sideguards of his helmet. This is attention to detail from a man determined to give himself every chance.
It is all done with deference to the team and to the game. If he has an ego – and he must have – it is well hidden, or more likely channelled into his love of the fight. Australia are never beaten until Hussey is done.
He fulfils a less-acknowledged role in the team too, one that he assumed from Adam Gilchrist. In a side that have pathologically pushed combativeness to its limits – and on occasion beyond – Hussey has offered another face. He is unyielding on the field, but unimpeachable in his sportsmanship. He has soul as well as heart, and when Australia began to lose again, Hussey did so nobly. Ricky Ponting could have crossed into dark waters with an Iago as his lieutenant. Instead he had Hussey to offer good sense and sympathy.
Gazing out from the team photos under his baggy green, there is something ingenuous about Hussey's face. Give the image a sepia tint and he could be a first world war digger, a man from a more innocent age. He even managed not to laugh out loud when Shane Watson was asked to bat at three for Australia. There is no opposition in the world that would swap that arrangement for one involving Mike Hussey. That's the real measure of his worth.
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Pretty much sums him up for me Buzz. Probably in my top 3 players with Sir Viv and Robin Smith.
Love watching him bat, but also love his grace and sportsmanship. A true gent with a deep love for the game.