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What is wrong with Stuart MacGill?

Posted on 10/27/2006 in Australian cricket

Robert Craddock asks the question in a comment piece in The Courier-Mail

It's a shame MacGill has never been able to find inner contentment throughout an outstanding career. You can understand early in his career, as a tempestuous youngster scrambling to get ahead, he must have felt a huge sense of frustration at being trapped in the jumbo-sized shadow of Shane Warne. But he is no heartbreak kid.

The true hard-luck stories of cricket are players such as Jamie Siddons, whom Steve Waugh claims was "as good as Mark or me", or Darren Berry, whom Waugh branded "as good as any gloveman I've seen". Neither played a Test. MacGill has played 40 and taken 198 wickets.

In Darren Lehmann’s column in The Advertiser he writes about how good it was seeing Shane Warne working with Cullen Bailey and in The Age he says Shaun Tait is a “real show” for the first Test.

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