TK: Well Westy, it will be a big night of Twenty20 cricket on Friday up at the QEO when the ACA Masters show rolls into town to take on the next generation of BDCA stars, plus a couple of older hangers-on.
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There's a few former Aussie batsmen that I'm pretty keen to watch in action again, namely Greg Blewett and Jimmy Maher.
Even if the boys aren't quite in their pomp these days, I'm sure they will put on a spectacle for the (hopefully) big crowd.
Now, I know you've been a bit on edge this week leading up to this game, but I want you to relax.
Your last intrepid journey to the QEO for a T20 match nearly ended in tears.
None of us can forget last year's BDCA T20 final when the sausage sizzle ran out of tomato sauce and left you and your snag high and (too) dry.
I've put in a call to BDCA president Wayne Walsh and he's assured me it won't happen again.
LW: Was the year before the tomato sauce ran out at the T20 grand final.
Having a snag without sauce is like listening to an AC/DC album at only half volume... it's just not right.
It should be a great experience for the young guns of Bendigo to test themselves against a team of former international players. You can't buy that sort of experience.
I wonder if there'll be any threats of any broken arms during the game?
TK: Don't get me started!
What an overreaction to Michael Clarke's chirp at Jimmy Anderson in the first Test.
We've gone soft.
We rip our blokes to shreds for not showing any fight, the next minute we're having a go at them for getting stuck in!
Win back the urn, then we'll be matey with the Poms again. At least 'Boof' Lehmann spoke a bit of sense when he rejected any talks about sledging rules.
Typical Poms living up to the whingers stereotype.
I lost count of the times Anderson and Broad mouthed-off at our batsmen last series.
That's another reason to look forward to Friday night, these Masters boys played it tough, but fair, in their day and there won't be any complaining when Miggy Podosky sends down his thunderbolts.
LW: Couldn't believe the way Jimmy Anderson sooked and carried on late on Sunday when the Aussies got up and about and in his face.
It reminded me of when my younger sisters used to cry to mum and dad when I gave them a bit of short stuff with the taped up tennis ball off the long run-up in the backyard.
Sledging has been part of cricket since the game was first played and I've got no issue with the way Michael Clarke handled himself.
It's professional sport, it's the Ashes, you do what you've got to do to get the urn back, and if that means getting stuck into the Poms verbally, so be it.
They've certainly given it to us over the past few years.
I'm sure you've been on the end of plenty of sledging throughout your career Kingy, and I still get a chuckle when I think back to a game I played for the Kangaroo Flat thirds a few years ago out at Canterbury Park against Eaglehawk.
I had written a story for the Addy during the week about who had made the most ducks in the BDCA that season, which wasn't a good move considering we were batting that coming Saturday against the Hawks.
When I went out to bat, I had my old mate Lizard King sitting at first slip and making quacking noises after every ball I faced and mentioning my duck story until I got off the mark.
It was off-putting to say the least, but good, fun banter.
On this topic, was there much banter out on the field last Saturday between you Strathdale-Maristians boys and your old team-mate Craig Howard, who is now at Sandhurst?
TK: Not a lot was said, to be honest. It's always a weird feeling playing against a former team-mate, though.
I never remember sledges, although I have seen a first this season when a batsman had a go at the bowler for bowling to his strength.
Work that one out.
Can't remember his exact words, but Clarke used one of them for his Anderson sledge. And it wasn't broken or arm.
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