diga Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Australia vice-captain Brad Haddin revealed he will be joining the captain Michael Clarke in ODI retirement amidst raucous celebrations of the team's World Cup final victory over New Zealand in Melbourne. At the same time Haddin spoke freely about the mindset that led to numerous instances of harsh behaviour towards the New Zealand players. In an interview with Triple M soon after the sun rose over Melbourne, Haddin said New Zealand's sheer niceness during their group-stage meeting in Auckland had made the more combative Australian team uncomfortable. This in itself did not seem surprising, given the high pitch of aggression they have played at since they regained the Ashes in a one-sided but occasionally fiery 2013-14 home Test series against England. "You know what? They deserved it," Haddin said of New Zealand's batsmen being the subject of several send-offs. "They were that nice to us in New Zealand and we were that uncomfortable. I said in the team meeting: 'I can't stand for this anymore, we're going at them as hard as we can.' "It was that uncomfortable. All they were was that nice to us for seven days. I said, 'I'm not playing cricket like this. If we get another crack at these guys in the final I'm letting everything [out].' I'm not playing another one-day game, so they can suspend me for as long as they like." Haddin's contribution to the final did not merely take the form of boorish send-offs and encouragement to other teammates to do the same. He engaged in a rather more subtle psychological joust with Brendon McCullum in the first over of the match, encouraging New Zealand's captain to go hard at the ball in the knowledge Mitchell Starc had been honing his yorker for the occasion. "I think I ran down the second ball, didn't I? I certainly wasn't tentative," McCullum had said. "Hadds actually asked me before the first ball, he said, 'are you still going to have a crack today', and I said, 'too right I am'." A few hours later, Haddin led the team to the middle of the MCG for the rendition of the team song 'Under The Southern Cross', a role he has filled since taking over from Matthew Wade as the limited-overs gloveman in late 2013. It was the first of many ecstatic moments for the Cup-winning squad, who went on from the dressing rooms back to the team hotel on the south bank of the Yarra river where celebrations continued right up to and beyond the aforementioned interview. Among the more memorable sights at a richly attended team celebration event in Melbourne's Federation Square was that of the team's ersatz captain and later perennial 12th man George Bailey, who walked onto the stage wearing the bright orange bib generally required of drinks runners. This was perceived as a light-hearted signifier of his support role, but was in fact a good-natured riposte to the ICC match referee Ranjan Madugalle, who had insisted Bailey wear the bib during the final. Preferring to be clad simply in the gold uniform of his team, Bailey had refused, but after winning the final decided it was time to don the bib. It was an episode that showed this to be an Australian team not keen on bowing to authority, whether in the impish manner of Bailey or the more caustic ways of Haddin. His exit from ODI cricket will leave a gulf in the team, but Sunday nights' victory and Monday morning's celebrations will mean Haddin's way is taken up by other members of the team in future years. There is also the possibility that Haddin will not be lost to the dressing room even after his Test career also runs its course. It is known that he harbours coaching ambitions for the future, and may well be fast-tracked into that career after the fashion of the current head coach, Darren Lehmann. www.espncricinfo.com/icc-cricket-world-cup-2015/content/story/857277.html
MCGGG Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 who will be the new keeper? Ben Dunk will be looked at.
brendan07 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Ben Dunk will be looked at. No he won't. Sam Whiteman or Peter Nevill. Dunk is a hack who slogs. You can't play every match at North Sydney...
G_B_ Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 lol you can tell MCGGGG is not an aussie the way brendon keeps correcting him... Anyways was expected IMO. I expect Haddin, Clarke, Rogers Watto and Harris to quit the test arena post the ashes.
brendan07 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 ^ What happened to Wade? Chance, but from what I know and this comes from being very good friends with a couple of selectors, they will use the ODI side for the next 12 months to blood the next test keeper, they don't see Wade as a test keeper. His keeping still is very poor. They honestly see Sam Whiteman as the long term keeper BUT the question is whether he is a bit green, and whether he needs another 12 months. Nevill has had a bumper year with 3 or 4 hundreds and he is an elite gloveman.
brendan07 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 lol you can tell MCGGGG is not an aussie the way brendon keeps correcting him... Anyways was expected IMO. I expect Haddin, Clarke, Rogers Watto and Harris to quit the test arena post the ashes. Clarke will play till the home series at least. Watson will be lucky to be in the Ashes side anyway.
sscomp32 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Chance' date=' but from what I know and this comes from being very good friends with a couple of selectors, they will use the ODI side for the next 12 months to blood the next test keeper, they don't see Wade as a test keeper. His keeping still is very poor. They honestly see Sam Whiteman as the long term keeper BUT the question is whether he is a bit green, and whether he needs another 12 months. Nevill has had a bumper year with 3 or 4 hundreds and he is an elite gloveman.[/quote'] :two_thumbs_up:
Scarves Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 No he won't. Sam Whiteman or Peter Nevill. Dunk is a hack who slogs. You can't play every match at North Sydney... This.
nic007 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 I saw all the NZ players wore the red ribbon for AIDS awareness but only one or two of the Aussies. Insensitive bunch these Aussies are.
bulbul Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Clarke will play till the home series at least. Watson will be lucky to be in the Ashes side anyway. You know OZ system well right? Selection,cricket ground , administration etc??
brendan07 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 You know OZ system well right? Selection' date='cricket ground , administration etc??[/quote'] Work in cricket have done for years. Work for Cricket NSW but have a lot of mates both in the International setup and other States.
bulbul Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Work in cricket have done for years. Work for Cricket NSW but have a lot of mates both in the International setup and other States. Then you should give a interview here..similar to what Pont did.
adi B Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 What happened to tim paine? Last I heard,he was dropped from the tasmanian side before the cup
brendan07 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 What happened to tim paine? Last I heard' date='he was dropped from the tasmanian side before the cup[/quote'] Was never dropped. Was injured. Backmin the side for the last game or two. Hasn't got the runs to be the keeper
brendan07 Posted March 30, 2015 Posted March 30, 2015 Then you should give a interview here..similar to what Pont did. Would be happy to do it. If people would like an interview discussion on Australian cricket.
diga Posted March 30, 2015 Author Posted March 30, 2015 Would be happy to do it. If people would like an interview discussion on Australian cricket. any chance Langer can come out of Aussie setup? Is he already anointed Lehmann's successor?
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