Kritik und Anregungen » ecember 1996 Warnes in his 46th Tes

Theyre two rare breeds - 16-year-old boys who can see when they need a kick up the backside, and top AFL draft picks.Warrnambool midfielder Hugh McCluggage joined the first group two years ago and that should mean he becomes part of the second this Thursday.As recently as last months draft combine, McCluggage was the popular choice to be taken by Essendon with the No.1 pick in the national draft.Most pundits now expect the Bombers will take Andrew McGrath, but it will be a major surprise if McCluggage is not among the first few selections.McCluggage put himself in the top tier of draft talent with an outstanding season for the North Ballarat Rebels in the TAC Cup and Vic Country at the under-18 Australian championships.He won the TAC Cup Morrish Medal, joining an alumni that features Dyson Heppell and Matthew Kreuzer, and earned All-Australian selection.Asked what was behind this years standout form, the 18-year-old pointed to two years ago.It probably started when I was 16, after the development squad with the Rebels, he said.I was a bit disappointed with my performance and I had to decide whether I was going to really pull my finger out and have a crack, see where I could get.Within a year, McCluggage was in the AFL Academy and had reaped the benefits of moving to a boarding school in Ballarat.This year, McCluggage has also come out of his shell, helping him handle the extra attention that comes with being a likely top draft pick.Rebels development coach Phil Partington has said they call McCluggage the observer because of his quiet demeanour.But the move to Ballarat Clarendon College also meant he had some growing up to do.Especially when I first came in, it took me a bit to find my feet ... it was definitely difficult at the start, he said.Its always hard, moving to a new environment.Its gotten a lot easier, now Ive had that experience at the academy.Moving away from home, it teaches you a lot about your character.You have to be able to fit in ... its going to hold me in good stead.Nolan Ryan Jersey . 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PETERSBURG, Fla.Up close and personal: January 1992 Im seven years old, sitting with other children on an embankment above a school cricket ground. The field seems enormous, but with familiarity and a few years Ill realise its not. Ive just met my first two Test cricketers - ginger giant Gary Cosier, of whom I know nothing, and Shane Warne, a week on from an inglorious Test debut.Theyre coaching us but right now theyre also giving a demonstration, Cosier batting and Warne bowling on the centre wicket. First up, Cosier dispatches Warne further than Ive ever seen a ball hit, over the fence and past rows of houses. Its probably the single coolest thing Ive seen in my short life.Until the next ball. Ive never seen legspin up close but now I know because Warne gives this one an extra rip so that the ball spins violently and audibly past Cosiers thrusting blade. Cosier was our hero a second ago but now he looks like a chump. You should have heard the ball fizzing, said the coach standing in the umpiring position. We did, all the way from the boundary.Ball of the Century: June 1993 When youre a child there are a few authority figures you look to for certainties and reassurance in life. If youre lucky its your parents. If you were a kid like me, perhaps you also found it in cricketers and footballers.Thats what shocked me at first about Warnes Gatting ball because I was too young to appreciate its technical perfection, its ominous context and its sheer beauty.I just saw stocky Mike Gatting, greying at the temples, and so not unlike my dad or my friends dads, grasping desperately and failing; not just that but being humiliated. As Warne launched into celebration, the earths orbit was suddenly a mystery to Gatting. That unsettled me. Dont get me wrong - eventually Id realise the cricketing implications of the delivery, but if Gatting didnt know what he was doing then maybe no adult did. He crumbled, so all adults did. Sport and life suddenly felt so different.Basit for dinner: December 1995 Many have been the theses that - as well as being a peerless practitioner of his craft - Warne had an ability to mentally outmanoeuvre batsmen before they had even taken guard. Often this approach was entirely lacking in subtlety and nuance, but damn it if it wasnt fun to watch. Warnes a bit of a ham these days. We should have seen that one coming.Basit Ali stood there patiently before Warnes final ball on the third day of 1995s Sydney Test - watching, waiting as the bowler ostentatiously conferenced with Ian Healy about the exact specifications of the finale.dddddddddddd That or they talked about what was for dinner. It doesnt really matter. Basit might have used his bat, I suppose, but he also just looked powerless to prevent his demise. It was cheesy, it was predictable, but what I wouldnt give to watch it again for the first time.Warnes genius also unlocked the best in crickets vernacular. You wouldnt believe it, said Richie Benaud, hes done him between his legs.Psyched out: January 1994 Its both the physical and psychological domination. Imagine being so confident, so cocky and so good that you allowed a batsman success for tactical purposes. Warne does it here with a decoy flipper. Daryll Cullinan pulls for four. Benaud senses it. He calls it the minute Warne bowls the first one. Well… that looked to me to be the one Warne shows them. You could almost pick that from up here. Really, Richie? Really. Now theres a legbreak. Cullinan cuts it for four more. Maybe this isnt so bad after all. Hes actually looking good. Hes looking even better to Warne, though, who has him exactly where he wants him: buoyed by the confidence of minor victories, and thus more inclined to yield to his own momentum and attacking instincts.Now comes the real flipper, the one Cullinan cant even hope to read. Its impossible to imagine worse footwork - two or more decisions in a split-second, all wrong - and then his stumps rattled. Not only has Cullinan been burgled, he has helped the thief load up the getaway car.The classic: December 1996 Warnes in his 46th Test now. Time enough, perhaps, for us to have grown a little complacent about the shapes, angles, torque and trajectories he would produce from a cricket ball.Its the SCG Test, late in 1996, and he produces perhaps his sharpest-turning wicket-taker: the legbreak that screams out of the rough a couple of feet outside off stump, then veers back into Shivnarine Chanderpauls pads and onto off stump.This is why replays exist. My brother and I get home from school and go wild when we see it in the evening news promos. The VCR is put to work because we know well want to watch it over and over, which we do. Theres something a bit odd, though. Chanderpaul is Warnes 216th Test victim, but in the immediate aftermath, just seconds after his fall, Ian Chappell focuses mainly on Chanderpauls error. There it is: we just expect these things of Warne now. ' ' '