Aggers on Monty

After reading the comments by Agnew on a TMS blog regarding Monty at the Gabba I found myself a little frustrated.

Here's the link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2006/11/england_need_urgent_lift_1.shtml

To say that Monty wouldn't have made a difference is a nonsense. No one knows what difference it would have made because he didn't play. Had Monty played and come on after, say, 30 overs and found some purchase bowling over the wicket to right handers like Ponting we may well have seen a very different scorecard. This is the problem with the old established cricket "luvvies"; they base all of their opinions on conventional wisdom. Someone at some point in the distant past declared that orthodox left arm finger spinners don't take wickets at the Gabba and that's then set in stone. Thankfully, people like Vaughan don't hold with convention and see the game as something that is evolving and are willing to try different things. If we fail to accept that cricket is changing then there is no future in the game. That Gabba pitch was different from any previous pitch. In the same way that the square I played on last summer was always different; sometimes like a pudding and others a real turner. Time to get with the program Aggers.