Might Brisbane Grammar College outdated boy Paddy Dooley be part of a choose group of ex-GPS First XI gamers desperately unfortunate by no means to have performed for Australia.
Bob Paulsen (Churchie), Sandy Morgan (BSHS), Andrew Courtice (BBC), Peter Anderson (Churchie), Wade Seccombe (TGS), Ben Slicing (BGS), Jim Maher (Nudgee Faculty), Jim Bratchford (BSHS) and Chris Hartley (BBC) are arguably the most effective gamers from GPS cricket by no means to play Take a look at cricket.
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And someday sooner or later, will Paddy Dooley, the 2014 BGS First XI Premiership winner who has been the invention participant of the Huge Bash League, be part of that checklist of elite gamers who’ve by no means donned a dishevelled inexperienced cap?
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Lengthy revered in membership land taking part in for Western Suburbs, Dooley’s expertise have now been seen nationwide.
Along with his windmill left arm orthodox spinners, the Hobart Hurricanes recruit was so spectacular this summer season that former Take a look at selector and Aussie champion Mark Waugh would have taken him on the tour of Pakistan.
“He has not performed any first-class cricket, however there’s a little bit of thriller about him,’’ Waugh mentioned whereas commenting in Fox Sports activities earlier this month.
“He has some tips which I believe you will want in opposition to the Indian batsmen. He bowls precisely and simply does sufficient both means,’’ mentioned Waugh, admitting it was a “left subject’’ thought, however one he believed in.
Then Waugh’s fellow Fox commentator, former leg-spinner from the Nineteen Seventies Kerry O’Keeffe, added: “His angle of launch, it’s the greatest angle of launch by a wrist spinner in Australia.’’
Excessive reward certainly from two excessive profile former Take a look at cricketers who stay college students of the fashionable sport.
Dooley’s path to the highest from Queensland shouldn’t be helped by the presence of Australian leggie, Nudgee outdated boy Mitchell Swepson, and extremely rated The Southport College outdated boy Matthew Kuhnemann.
Final season he rose to second XI stage, however the lawyer from HWL Ebsworth was not referred to as upon by the Queensland selectors this season.
However when you have folks like Mark Waugh and Kerry O’Keeffe placing him in elite firm, then who is aware of.
Allow us to see if 25-year-old Dooley, the brother of expertising WBBL player Josie, can climb the mountain.
At the very least now, courtesy of his Huge Bash publicity on the Hobart Hurricanes, Dooley is at Base Camp No.1 and on an upward climb.
GPS FIRST XI STARS MOST UNLUCKY NEVER TO PLAY FOR AUSTRALIA
Chris Hartley (BBC): Hartley takes No.1 billing in terms of unfortunate sportsmen and girls – not simply cricketers – by no means to play for his or her nation. How Matthew Wade performed Take a look at cricket as a gloveman forward of Hartley is anybody’s guess. Hartley was an exquisite keeper, elite batsman and advantageous skipper who ought to have performed Take a look at cricket.
Ben Slicing (BGS): The youthful era will see the title Ben Slicing and scoff at solutions he ought to have been a Take a look at participant. However earlier than T20 cricket beginning harming the careers of quick bowlers, Slicing was a real quick bowling enforcer who took wickets for enjoyable at Sheffield Protect cricket. A lot in order that he was truly twelfth man for Australia at a Gabba Take a look at. That’s how effectively he went in purple ball cricket. He was the true deal and adequate to play a Take a look at for certain.
Wade Seccombe (TGS): Seccombe not less than had the enjoyment of constructing the 2004 Ashes touring occasion, though he by no means performed a Take a look at. He was the most effective within the enterprise and was so superior to Brad Haddin (Australian gloveman) at the beginning of Haddin’s first-class profession, it was not humorous. Australia’s Take a look at wicket keeper of final century, BSHS outdated boy Ian Healy, had the very best regard for Seccombe, as did the battery of worldwide quick bowlers he saved to – Carl Rackemann, Craig McDermott, Andrew Bichel, Michael Lasprowicz, Adam Dale, Mitchell Johnson, Ashley Noffkle. Say no extra.
Peter Anderson (Churchie): The GPS system has produced some elite wicketkeepers – together with Seccombe, Hartley and Australian gamers Ian Healy and John Maclean (each BSHS outdated boys). However none had been extra expert than Anderson. The previous Queensland Protect gloveman was like poetry in movement, somebody who effortlessly floated behind the stumps whereas exhibiting wonderful glove work. He was adequate to play Take a look at cricket, and solely the emergence of Healy blocked that pathway.
Bob Paulsen (Churchie): Paulsen was an ace leg-spinner who simply made our Churchie greatest ever side printed 12 months in the past. He was a ripping leggie who as soon as took eight wickets in opposition to the touring West Indians whereas taking part in for Western Australia.
Jim Maher (Nudgee Faculty):The previous Australian World Cup opener was unfortunate to have performed in such a powerful period of Australian cricket. Displacing both his former home mate Matthew Hayden and Hayden’s aspect kick Justin Langer (WA) will need to have been akin to scaling the Berlin Wall.
There was no means by means of regardless of Maher’s development to a Take a look at normal opener. Certainly there was a 3 or 4 season patch when Maher performed actually straight and balls would rocket off his bat, and it was in that interval the previous Nudgee Faculty premiership star had the runs on the board to play Take a look at matches.
Andrew Courtice (BBC): The College of Queensland opener performed in an period when Take a look at bowlers performed extra for his or her states than they did video games for his or her nation. And bravely Courtice stood as much as all of them in, a gutsy, regular paced opener who performed as a lot for the group as he did himself. In 49 Protect video games he scored 2758 runs at a mean of 34.91, however that common can be price 40+ lately given the fashionable cricketer enjoys massive bats, small boundaries and all of the protecting gear beneath the solar. No disrespect to gamers like Julien Weiner (Victoria), Paul Hibbert (Victoria), Rick Darling (SA) and extra lately Ed Cowan (NSW) who all earned their Take a look at caps, but when they had been Take a look at openers, then Courtice ought to have been as effectively.
Sandy Morgan (BSHS): The brother of one of many Brisbane Broncos fonding fathers, Paul Morgan, Sandy performed for Easts and College as an allrounder. Morgan was an elite Sheffield Protect participant who was unfortunate to play in the identical period as the nice Doug Walters and the proficient Graham Watson.
Jim Bratchford (BSHS): Bratchford is the godfather of unfortunate Queensland omissions. A former Queensland Sheffield Protect captain, he performed 52 matches as an allrounder and wouldn’t have let Australia down had he been given an opportunity within the Fifties.
Footnote: Footnote: We strongly thought of Ben McDermott (Churchie) for the above checklist. McDermott completely deserves a point out after taking part in himself to the brink of an Australian touring occasion after an incredible season final yr. However the teen has had a modest 2022-23, though he’s nonetheless younger sufficient to stand up given his expertise with the bat and with the gloves.
Chris Lynn (Nudgee) was additionally an extaordinary expertise, and in one other period – and with out harm – he may have developed his sport to be a Take a look at contender. However in fact he grew to become a “See Ball, Hit Ball’’ T20 specialist.
And two others.
Invoice Buckle (BGS) each opened the bowling and was an incredible schoolboy batsman. A schoolboy shot put champion, Invoice scored 200 odd for Queensland in opposition to Victoria and obtained quite a lot of runs in opposition to the English touring aspect. However he obtained glandular fever and that basically affected him.
And Ray Reynolds (Churchie) was brut to bowl to who would have been adequate for Take a look at cricket if referred to as upon.
Our protection of GPS First XI cricket will proceed this Saturday afternoon at www.courmermail.com.au
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