
“The Cricketer”
by Kate Birrell
The Belligerents v The Peaceniks
Belligerents (in your face types, by name anyway. Manichaeans, hard-headed, hard-hearted, natural born rules enforcers, by name anyway)
- David Warner
- Geoff Boycott
- Ian Redpath
- Mark Waugh
- Steve Waugh (c)
- Jacques Kallis (keeps out Ben Stokes on name and pure numbers)
- Quinton de Kock (keeps out Tim Paine for pretty obvious reasons)
- Malcolm Marshall
- Mitchell Starc
- Paul Reiffel
- Shane Warne (Ash Mallett a tad unlucky)
- Roger Harper
Manager: Mike Gatling
Peaceniks (mung beans and happiness types, sensualist hippies, and god-fearing do-gooders, by name anyway)
- Andy Flower
- Joe Darling
- Allan Lamb
- Joe Root (c)
- Mike Hussey
- Heath Streak (Gary Sobers had strong claims but too much of a downer, by name anyway)
- Ian Healy
- Peter Sleep (happily MacBeth, Thane of Cawdor, was dropped from the Belligerents on form and name. He woulda flippin’ murdered Sleep.)
- Ian Bishop
- Joe Angel
- John Snow
- Chris Rogers
Manager: Greg Blewett
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I love the licence of nominating Mike Gatling (sic) as Manager of The Belligerants!
Unsure where Kirat Kohli is?
Certainly a fine batsmen, though he’s never held back on his belligerence. Today his behaviour hasn’t mellowed.
His action into walking Into Sam Konstas this morning was poor form. Will he get a fine, or some sort of punishment? I won’t hold my breath.
Glen!
Surely the Chappells should be in the Peacenik batting lineup. Great fun. Well played.
Peter Sleep a peacenik? I heard him sledging blokes from deep on the boundary – complete with the “c” word – in a club game at Woodville Oval once. Didn’t strike me as the kumbaya type!
What a cracker, Gaters!
Can you give us one for footy??
I made a start but the 1973 GF stopped me dead when I realised Laurie could not have been Fowler and Neal laid on everything except Balme.
Peter Sleep gets a run in the Peaceniks XI cos his surname suggests a gentle, comatose even, nature. It is the nominative determinism world test series after all.
Matt, I am loving your burst onto the Almanac scene. Enjoyed this – but it’s rather confronting for a bloke called Harms, and even more confronting for two of my brothers who are in Medicine.
You think you’ve got it tough. Try growing up as Peter (“you are the rock on which I will found my church”) Boulder Stone. High School was hell.
Regards,
Rockhead.