View Full Version : Want to hear something really depressing?
legend166
8 Jan 2010, 11:01
Jason Gillespie is still only 34 years old.
Were it not for injuries stuffing over his body, he could have been leading our attack for the last 4 years.
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Adelaide Hawk
8 Jan 2010, 11:40
Doesn't depress me in the least.
bunsen burner
8 Jan 2010, 11:49
When McGrath went down in that Ashes series it was Dizzies turn to step up and be our main strike bowler.
Bzzzzzzzzt! Fail!
We lost the ashes for the first time in 15 odd years and his piss-weak performance had a lot to do with it. McGrath made him look good.
Hawthorn United
8 Jan 2010, 11:51
And he's gone grey already. Body definitely would feel older.
Plugger35
8 Jan 2010, 12:16
And he's gone grey already. Body definitely would feel older.
He's actually been grey for years, even going back to his playing days in the Australian team. He used a brown hair dye to cover it up.
I thought you were gonna say a group of adorable baby kittens has just died or something. That would have been depressing. This is meh.
damochandler
8 Jan 2010, 12:22
his first 2 ashes series in england were special and he lead the attack brilliantly when macgrath was injured in late 2003 early 2004. he was our best bowler in the series where we finally won in india for the first time in 40 years
Belnakor
8 Jan 2010, 12:32
Gillespe was brilliant on the sub continent, able to bowl long spells and bat for long periods
Hellgood
8 Jan 2010, 12:32
He chose the right time to retire.
Had a terrible Ashes and had his finale against the Banglas, he was pretty gone as a bowler with injuries reducing his effectiveness.
He got banned for playing in the ICL didn't he?
Well, it stopped him playing domestic cricket anyway.
aussie1st
8 Jan 2010, 15:20
He lost that extra yard of pace which pretty much took away his effectiveness. When he was in the 140s he was the bowler we love to remember.
Bomber Bears
8 Jan 2010, 15:20
Gillespie is probably our most under rated player of the last 15 years (along with Fleming and Pistol Pete). Supurb bowler, perfect to compliment McGrath and Warne and very good without those around (as pointed our earlier, see his performaces without Pidge pre-Ashes 2005). Unfortunately the signs were already there the previous summer that he wasnt quite as effective as he had been and he of course had his Ashes meltdown, which was pretty sad to see. Body had just taken too many hits to keep bowling unfortunately.
Would've loved to have seen how good he would've been if he had not had the amount of injuries he had early in his career, testement to his application that he hauled himself back from those injuries.
I think that was one of our biggest issues post Warne and Mcgrath, is that we didnt have these type of bowlers to step in, bowlers like Gillespie, Reifel(sp) and Fleming. Clark would've been ideal but he broke down as well.
TheStinger
8 Jan 2010, 19:00
Will go down in cricket folklore as the only fast bowler to score a double hundred and then never play another test.
Thommo 42
9 Jan 2010, 11:48
When McGrath went down in that Ashes series it was Dizzies turn to step up and be our main strike bowler.
Bzzzzzzzzt! Fail!
We lost the ashes for the first time in 15 odd years and his piss-weak performance had a lot to do with it. McGrath made him look good.
Kidding yourself.
He was well into his downward spiral before the Ashes.
Remember in the 1997 Ashes when he took 7-27 at Lords as a 22 year old, who was making him look good then?
damochandler
9 Jan 2010, 15:38
Kidding yourself.
He was well into his downward spiral before the Ashes.
Remember in the 1997 Ashes when he took 7-27 at Lords as a 22 year old, who was making him look good then?
that was at leeds. macgrath took 8 for 30 odd at lords