How'd you manage to quote Adelaide Hawk?
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How'd you manage to quote Adelaide Hawk?
South Australia
IM Chappell
LE Favell/J Darling
C Hill
GS Chappell
DS Lehmann
DW Hookes/GS Blewett/TM Moody
G Giffen
BJ Jarman
JN Gillespie
AA Mallett
RM Hogg/G Noblet/E Jones
As far as I know, Les Favell was born in NSW, Ashley Mallett was born in WA, Rodney Hogg was born in Victoria. Could be wrong though.
You could add Trevor Chappell and Jeff Hammond to the list.
It's mainly just something invented in the minds of insecure Victorians that think that every mediocre cricketer that's pulled on a Bushranger shirt gets robbed at the national selection table..
Exactly which NSW players from the last 20 years haven't deserved a spot, and who should have been picked instead?
Inb4 Brad Hodge and Cameron White
During Andrew Hilditch's tenure (regular selector 1996-2006, Chairman of Selectors 2006-present), when most people consider NSW bias to have been at it's strongest, aside from Smith and Hughes' re-selections in 2011 (when neither was in form with the bat), and maybe Phil Emery, Simon Cook, Gavin Robertson and Beau Casson (none of whom lasted very long anyway, and were really just injury fill-ins), and a young Michael Clarke and Pat Cummins (picked on potential rather than actual output), I can't think of any other undeserving NSW selections. It's hardly a strong, regular pattern. All other NSW players to don their first Baggy Green merited selection at the time. In fact, from even 1994 onwards (to make it "the past 20 years), there hasn't really been that many NSW players debut in the Test team. Certainly no more than other states:
Michael Bevan
Phil Emery
Simon Cook
Stuart MacGill
Gavin Robertson
Brett Lee
Nathan Bracken
Michael Clarke
Phil Jaques
Stuart Clark
Brad Haddin
Beau Casson
Doug Bollinger
Phillip Hughes
Steven Smith
Usman Khawaja
Trent Copeland
Pat Cummins
Mitchell Starc
Moises Henriques
If anything, a few of those NSW blokes (MacGill, Jaques, Clark, Casson, Copeland) were dealt with quite harshly, and/or discarded quite quickly.
MacGill is Western Australian.
The favouritism thing kind of goes out the window when Bushranger hacks like Quiney, Hastings and McGain have baggygreens..it's just that the natives get restless when you point out the victorian bias