Cricket things that annoy you

[big_e]

That I never played for NSW.

Why?

Because with just one match in the 90s or early 2000s, it would have been enough to qualify me for some sort of quasi-music career based on what I’ve seen of Six and Out on YouTube this evening.

I was born on the same day as Brett Lee. I desperately wanted to be a cricketer, he desperately wanted to be a musician. He has more test wickets than me but I sold more records. We'll call it a tie.

 

[PhatBoy]

I was born on the same day as Brett Lee. I desperately wanted to be a cricketer, he desperately wanted to be a musician. He has more test wickets than me but I sold more records. We'll call it a tie.

I get to play gigs but no one gives a f**k who I am or pays any attention to what I’m doing, I’ve never been able to call someone like Isa Guha up next to me to sing, and I haven’t really tried but I’m pretty sure I could write a better song than Can’t Bowl Can’t Throw but who the f**k’s gonna ask me to record it

 

[nobbyiscool]

Every time I see a cricketer's "auto" biography I get the shits that this ghost-written bullshit can get published, while I don't have a chance of having (what I think is) genuinely well-written and thought provoking stuff published.

The bar is so low that middling cricketers like Ed Cowan now forge media careers based solely on their ability as former cricketers who can string a few basic sentences together.

 

[PhatBoy]

Every time I see a cricketer's "auto" biography I get the shits that this ghost-written bullshit can get published, while I don't have a chance of having (what I think is) genuinely well-written and thought provoking stuff published.

The bar is so low that middling cricketers like Ed Cowan now forge media careers based solely on their ability as former cricketers who can string a few basic sentences together.

I would have added Tim Paine to that group but because he landed the captaincy kind of by default, he becomes a go-to pundit for a quote now when journos want a story and who pops up regularly on podcasts

 

[big_e]

I get to play gigs but no one gives a f**k who I am or pays any attention to what I’m doing, I’ve never been able to call someone like Isa Guha up next to me to sing, and I haven’t really tried but I’m pretty sure I could write a better song than Can’t Bowl Can’t Throw but who the f**k’s gonna ask me to record it

Can't Bowl Can't Throw made it to number 100 on the charts, which just means someone at the record company was sent down to the local Sanity store late one afternoon to buy an extra few copies....

Good on them for taking advantage of it, as much as the band weren't great, they made the most of it.