Brad Hodge

Of course they did.

I used weed-keeping pads because I wasn't tall enough to fit batting pads and used either a mix of Brad Hodge or Henry McDonald's bats from age 7 to 14.

So how did that happen? Yeah, so Brian, my dad, was coaching Melbourne, and, yeah, they'd break one or two of their bats, hop as a builder, we'd take it to the shed, cut the bottom off, and I've still got the bats in my shed at home today.

So your pop would chop the bottom off Ronnie's bat.

So we will get the full burst of midday madness and then you'll get the fresh burst of midday madness once the fixture drops.

On a cricket front, Hi Gerard was standing behind George Bailey and Brad Hodge at Pearl Jam on the Gold Coast last night.

Pretty wild weather yesterday afternoon and the same predicted today.

Hopefully it goes ahead at the Gabba tonight.

He's not from New South Wales.

Brad Hodge, Martin Love, Stuart Law,

team in Scarborough.

Yeah, so Matt Renshaw.

Who has clobbered them is Matt Renshaw, batting and fielding.

Yeah, very much so.

Another one for Stewie McGill, Brad Hodge.

Unlucky not to play more cricket for Australia.

[laughs] Just before you get, uh, move on from that, um, don't know whether there is, uh, women's cricket going on at the moment.

I remember, um, uh, was it Brad Hodge saying, uh, I think he was complimenting the Australian team and, uh, I think he said, "These fine female women." [laughs]

[laughs] Um, all right.

So just sticking in South Africa, Neil Manthorp did a really interesting interview on ABC Radio, uh, during one of the lunch breaks, and he had a really good insight into privatization from the ground in South Africa, and he didn't paint a pretty picture.

he he has been that guy on the outer for three or four years having to score runs having to average 52 to get recalled to chef to test cricket he's been that you know the opener who's faced the fire and averaged 50 in 100 tests i mean it's amazing 30 test century so it comes from that position of strength But the difference here probably from now to Matt's day is probably there's not that many alternatives.

There's not many great young batsmen waiting in the wings as there was once a Mike Hussey or a Stuart Law, a Martin Love, a Brad Hodge, those sort of players.

So there is that difference.

But I always have a lot of respect for what he says, Matthew, because he's a good judge of the game.

You don't have blokes that have come through 27, 28, played a full season of Sheffield Shield and scored 1,000 runs.

There's no Brad Hodges, none of these blokes who were unlucky not to play for Australia.

It's all T20s and different pitches and younger generations, and it's just the way it is.

And I love what Travis Head's done.

You know, they're talking about, you know, the drop-in being the case and, and lowering the aggregates and averages of players.

But that didn't save Scott the young Brad Hodge getting 200 on day two against Ruckman and, um, McDermott, if you played that Test match, Hills-

Yes

... at that, that first-class game up at The Gabba And he was just a gun player in those conditions, which were largely very green.