Mitched Ditched

Not much time today due to work commitments but a 5 minute search of the googlemachine tells me that the Ditch Mitch campaign has worked a treat. Mitchell Johnson, the bloke with the pussycat tattoo, has been dropped from the team for the second Test in Adelaide. Word on the street is that Chairman of Selectors, Andrew Hilditch, has advised Mitchell to have a shave to counter to now notorious Reverse Samson Syndrome, get a few new tattoos on his left side to balance him out and ... what was the other thing? Oh, and to learn to bowl better. He could start by contacting Steven Elliott, who I now understand was in fact an allrounder, rather than simply an out and out quick bowler, for tips on getting the seam upright.

Another person that Mitchell might want to contact is Bryce Thompson, cricket analyst and all round IT Executive extraordinaire. I talked to you the other day how Bryce had pointed out Mitchell's seam problems for quite a while but what I forgot to mention was that Bryce also wrote Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland a personal letter outlining all of the fault in Mitchell's action and wrist position as well as pointing out how they could be resolved, around 3 years ago now (how you end up with a title of CEO when you run a not for profit body of about 100 people is probably a conversation for another day). I believe this is without a doubt grounds for the immediate resignation of James. If he had acted on this information when it was provided, not only would we be one up in this series, we would have won the 2009 Ashes series, as well as sparing all of us from some very unnecessary trouble and heartache.

Whilst Mitchell was convinced that Doug the Rug was searching for exactly the right spot for Andrew Hilditch to bury the knife, Doug always maintained that it was in fact a loving, encouraging, brotherly embrace

In other news, discarded Test spinner, Nathan Hauritz, has bowled himself back into form with a 7 wicket, man of the match performance in the Shield game against WA. If he keeps bowling well, I predict we will see him back in the SCG Test. Our dalliance with The Bowler Formerly Known As will have ended by then.

By the way, we might have wanted to read one or two interviews with English spinner, Graeme Swann before we dropped little Nathan. Maybe Nathan wasn't too bad after all if Swann was planning to copy him.

"He bowled beautifully over here so I think it would be daft not to take a few little pointers from him."

Hmm, might have been good to have the guy the number 2 bowler in the world was going to copy in our team

Final Point: I fully apologise to Dave's Dad for barracking so hard during Taylor and Marsh's 1989 day of 0/329. If I had known the impact in Blyth, I never would have done it. Well, not as loudly anyway.