Go Get 'em TC!

And so I wait eagerly. Trent Copeland, New South Wales' hard working trundler, will walk onto the pitch in Galle as an Australian test player. Isn't it just a wonderful thing to see a man build his own career from the ground up? For the first time since the great Warne, Gilchrist and McGrath retired it seems a man has actually earned a Baggy Green with some proper effort.

Copeland has been rewarded with selection at all levels thus far, be it grade cricket for St. George in Sydney, NSW Shield and limited overs cricket and now for Australia, through sheer weight of wickets. I'm glad to see Copeland do it the hard (proper) way. Rather than that of Lyon, Beer and Doherty who were thrust into the side in recent times. In all fairness their shock selections has been more of a reaction to the lack of capable spinners left in the country after they decided they wouldn't pick any of the decent ones (Hauritz!!!).

Removal of Chappell and Hilditch was a godsend in regards to getting rid of the dinky selections of late. How can it be that 3 or 4 good Twenty 20 performances has got Lyon, who I'm sure is actually capable, in the test squad? Yet Steve O'Keefe's 52 first class wickets at 24.05 remains ignored. Not to mention Hauritz remains the most experienced, not to mention proven, test bowling option. I hope to see the back end of the spinners debacle now that the Argus Review's finding and recommendations have been put in place.

But forget all that for now, Trent Copeland is in the side and that's what matters.

Go get 'em TC!