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not sure if clark was vice captain at that time. Also katich is not the sort of fella who would grab other peoples throat willy nilly for no reason.
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Katich was one of our best batsmen at the time. Don't give me bullshit about he never lived up to the hype.
He averaged 50 runs an innings for his last 25 innings. His replacement wasn't as good as him.
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you cant be serious. lara bingle changes the tradition of the Australian team? lmao
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That's pretty much the point I'm making - as if the altercation was about the timing of a team song...
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in his last 33 matches for Australia as an opener ,he scored 2928 runs with an average of 50.5
still think what the hype was about CD?
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Katto was a top batsman but from stories I've heard, he's an absolute bellend. I know plenty of people who have met him through coaching and such and they all say he'd a massive douche with a huge ego.
And it was all blown out of proportion. The song was meant to be sung in the sheds after the game like every match. For some reason certain players were going on a cruise or something and wanted to sing it on the boat. Because the whole team weren't going on the boat, pup said it was ridiculous to break tradition and argued that the song should be sung then and there like always. That's when Katto apparently grabbed him.
No one will ever know what really happened but that's the story I've been told by a couple of different people in the know. Pup is very popular among his team mates and Katich is definitely not popular with everyone he's played with.
Youre kidding yourself if you think pup, as vice captain, single handedly over ruled selectors and ruined his career. He may have complained about Kattos actions but ultimately he got dumped because he's an egotistical wanker and done nothing for team harmony
And it was all blown out of proportion. The song was meant to be sung in the sheds after the game like every match. For some reason certain players were going on a cruise or something and wanted to sing it on the boat. Because the whole team weren't going on the boat, pup said it was ridiculous to break tradition and argued that the song should be sung then and there like always. That's when Katto apparently grabbed him.
No one will ever know what really happened but that's the story I've been told by a couple of different people in the know. Pup is very popular among his team mates and Katich is definitely not popular with everyone he's played with.
Youre kidding yourself if you think pup, as vice captain, single handedly over ruled selectors and ruined his career. He may have complained about Kattos actions but ultimately he got dumped because he's an egotistical wanker and done nothing for team harmony
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If he was such douche with a huge ego he wouldnt have played over 50 test matches and continuously through out 2008,09, 10, 11 season under Ricky Ponting. Captain has a big say in team selection and only person Katich ever had any problem with was Clark who happened to be the captain of the team.
Aussies have been struggling to find a decent opener after hayden and langer till they got warner / rogers combination going and that was only recently and during that time Katich had been scoring consistently in domestic cricket.
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Plenty of ego maniacs have played lots of tests.. Warney has an ego the size of the universe.. I can assure you he's had issues with more players than pup.
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I know and i can assure you that no matter what kinda person Katich was, Clark had a big part in not selecting him.
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I'm sure he did. And rightly so. Katich acted like a pork chop. End of the day there's still 4 selectors above Clarke and they obviously saw issues with Katich
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why they didnt see it for 4 years under ponting?
You should have known the inevitable collapse was coming, with this team it's always a matter of when not if ;-)
Hopefully the last we ever see of those dud marsh brothers. Watson and his usual 20-30 runs looks better at this stage.
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Let them come back to oz and they will be back in form.
Aussie cricketers are becoming like Indians.
Lions at home, pussys away from home.
Oh great, Joe Root just become the number 1 test batsmen. Interesting times ahead for us, clarke leaving and no doubt a shitload more with him at the end of the series. Smith will obviously be captain, i think he has to move to number 4. He doesn't have the technique good enough for a number 3.
Regardless of what people think of clarke, at his peak he was a phenomenal run scorer. It's a wise choice to step aside, all his injuries etc he would have never reached those peaks again.
Regardless of what people think of clarke, at his peak he was a phenomenal run scorer. It's a wise choice to step aside, all his injuries etc he would have never reached those peaks again.
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Sad to see Clarke go. Was saying yesterday he is the last of the players that I grew up watching. Clarke is a legend and good on him for recognising that he was at a point where he was not performing to a level that he should and was holding others back and therefore it was time to go. As much as I love Punter and he was my favourite player he should have done the same (and he himself admits that). I reckon we are in for a few lean seasons as we rebuild the team but we have a good junior system in place and should be back dominating soon enough!!!