Summer's Not Dead Yet

White Ball: I've gotta be careful what I wish for, but it was kinda good to see the Saffy's win last night, at least to keep some interest in the series (sh*t, I'd never thought I'd say a South African win would be good to see).

To appease the media, Punter's come out and said that the "aggressive" batting would be reviewed. Don't hold your breath. With our fairly leaky bowling attack (M.C. Grath aside) and genuine batting depth, I reckon we'll always be better off batting first and bullying to a big total.

Two things came out of the game:
(1) Even Brett Lee is a better all-rounder than Watto (that now places Watto about 15th in the rankings of Aussie ODI all-rounders, somewhere behind Hussey, Clarke, Katich and Warne).

(2) I know they have a vested interest in holding on to viewers to the end of the game (apparently, there's idiots out there that can't change the channel at the end of a game to avoid watching News and a Crime Show - btw, I think that's Nine's new tagline for the year). Howevs, it really needs to be said that anything less than 100 runs off the last 10 overs with more than around 5 or 6 wickets in hand will ALMOST ALWAYS be chased successfully.

Sorry Tubby and Heals, ODI cricket has actually changed in the decade since you two buggered off. If anyone can remember multiple recent occasions where 70 or 80 runs weren't able to be chased in the last 10, comment me.

Yellow Ball: Ausopen starts today. Good article about that dude who married that Home and Away whore. My pick: A-Rod (I'll be putting $10 down today, spewing I didn't last Friday when he was paying about $8.00).