Health Warning: Selector-itis

Word has come from the World Health Organisation of a devastating new ailment: Selector-itis. According to a press release, the main symptoms include incompetence, stupidity and a lack of logical thought process.

The good news is that the general public are not being threatened by the disease. It only affects representative sporting selectors, but unfortunately, among them it appears rife. The disease if unchecked can be deadly - to the chances of our representative teams winning.

It has already claimed the life and dignity of the NSW Blues State of Origin team. And unfortunately, based on the fact that Kurt Gidley and Trent Barrett (and Jamie Lyon if he had not been injured) are still in the team for game three, it looks like selector-itis has more damage still to do.

Hopes that selector-itis had been contained were dashed last night when top Australian paceman Stuart Clark was left to carry the drinks in game one of the Ashes. Our best fast bowler being relegated to 12th man is clearly evidence that selector-itis has now infiltrated our national cricket selectors.

Luckily help in the fight came last night from an unlikely source, England's Kevin Pietersen whose brain explosion may just have slowed the effects of selector-itis, but with England at 7-336 after the first day of play, it is still not yet known what the longer term effect of the disease on our Ashes campaign will be.

More information will be made available about this epidemic as it comes to hand. Stay tuned.