Quite a few events have taken place over the last few days in the Australian cricket scene.

Most importantly is the upsetting news that Craig McDermott has quit as Australia’s bowling coach. It’s a huge loss after the terrific work he did with the bowlers. He focused on the fundamentals, redeveloped the foundation for our bowlers and then built things up by focusing on each and every bowlers core skills and how they could execute their abilities as a team. The results show.
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Following on from my previous piece on ‘The Missing Class‘, I did a bit more research into Callum Ferguson versus Michael Clarke in seeing how similar their careers are to the point where Clarke made his Test debut.

Michael Clarke began his journey in the 99/00 season making his First Class debut. By November 2002, Clarke was already in Australian colours representing Australia A against England XI where he made 50.

In January 2003, Clarke would make his ODI debut against the English. Later in the year he would make 131 against the Indian touring side, the same country he would later make his test debut and maiden test hundred against.
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Just a decade ago, many Australian fans and most importantly the selectors could name a handful of batting replacements to fill in or even take over the spots of the current batting lineup. How things have changed in the space of a decade with no player in their late 20′s knocking the door down for selection.

When talking about unlucky batsmen from the past decade in Australian cricket, names such as Brad Hodge, David Hussey, Phil Jaques, Michael Bevan, Chris Rogers, Martin Love and Michael Di Venuto were mentioned. A decade ago these were the players putting pressure on the incumbents with their First Class averages well above 45. The thing each of these guys have in common apart from missing the boat in regards to Test cricket is each of them were in their late 20′s a decade ago.
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If you didn’t get around to checking the last post at the Baggy Green Blog, give it a look. We’re now on Youtube and the first video is a mix of my favourite Australian moments of the 2012 Frank Worrell Trophy.

As some of you know, I keep a close eye on what goes on with the West Indies and the latest news is that Chris Gayle is set to return for the ODIs against England. Massive boost for their side and will be even better if they get back a few other batsmen, notably Ramnaresh Sarwan and Lendl Simmons.

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Kotaku Australia is reporting on a development in the recent Victorian state budget which has removed funding to Film Victoria for video game projects, potentially resulting in the cancellation of a Film Victoria grants scheme supporting local video game development if alternate funding sources are not obtained. Melbourne based developer Big Ant has previously been a beneficiary under the scheme, with CEO Ross Symons being “thrilled with the Victorian Coalition Government’s continued support for the Australian games industry” just months prior to the recent budget announcement.
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