There was once a time when Australia would never tour England with one wicket keeper.
Nowadays they figure that one is enough, and if they need the second one they will fly him there within 48 hours.
A side effect of the one keeper problem is that no one knows who the back up keeper is at the moment, and without the ashes selection, the state keepers will be kept in the dark for even longer.
It should be Luke Ronchi, but he has had an Ian Baker Finch time of it since he smashed the Windies around. The next most obvious is Tim Paine, who has to be in the frame because of his massive talent.
But Graham Manou has shunted past these two in the eyes of many experts, even for me, and I love Ronchi and Paine.
Manou’s solid keeping, gutsy batting and consistent performances have just impressed everyone, while Paine and Ronchi fail to get the job done.
If Australia does continue to have just one keeper, Manou doesn’t trust that if Haddin gets injured, he’ll get a call and a plane ticket. The boy wants to be sure of his back up position, and he’s going to England regardless:
“If the selections don’t go my way, processes are being put into place by myself and my management company to get me over there,”
It’s an interesting development in cricket. I am calling it a ghost tourist, which is different to Adil Rashid being a non-official tourist, or Brett Lee’s gate crashing tourist.
What you do is find out where your team is touring, you book a ticket, and then wait around a hotel for a phone call.
It could work, I spose.
The only problem I can see is that the Australian selectors might feel that Manou is emotionally blackmailing them, and decide to give him a big fuck you by selecting Ronchi.
But surely Hilditch isn’t that petty…
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Pretty Sad.....
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