Aussie comedy icon Mick Molloy has potted out-of-favour check batter Marcus Harris in brutal style.
Molloy was in uncommon type as The Front Bar returned to Channel 7 on Wednesday evening with a number of Aussie cricketers on the receiving finish of his tongue-lashings.
The 56-year-old light-heartedly kicked Harris whereas the opening batter is down, with the West-Australian snubbed from Australia’s Test Squad for the Tour of India.
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Harris was a part of the Aussie Test squad this summer season after taking part in in all 5 Ashes Tests 12 months in the past. Now he can’t even make the 18-man squad.
Harris is within the unlucky place of being caught behind openers Usman Khawaja and David Warner, who’ve each discovered red-hot type.
The larger downside for Harris is that selectors have turned to Matt Renshaw and Peter Handscomb as their most well-liked choices as potential top-order batters in India.
It’s the explanation Harris was the sufferer of a Molloy one-liner on Wednesday.
Molloy joked in regards to the unimaginable storm surrounding Khawaja being denied a visa to journey to India. The Pakistan-born cricketer was left stranded on the airport whereas his teammates flew on Wednesday. The concern has since been cleared up and he’s anticipated to fly out on Thursday.
Molloy joked the delay was a transparent try from Indian officers to cease Khawaja from participating within the sequence.
Khawaja has been in purple scorching contact, plundering 1080 Test runs in 2022.
Molloy was pretending to learn from an official doc when he mentioned: “The Indians have singled him out and said he doesn’t have a visa. This is from the Indian consulate, apparently his batting average is too high.
“They have said if he is prepared to nick a few early they will consider it. They are happy, however, to give Marcus Harris a visa. If he would like to go, the door is open.”
Front Bar co-host Andy Maher was left to do the apology to Harris.
“Marcus Harris is a regular watcher of ‘The Front Bar’, so chin up, we still believe in you son, don’t worry about that,” he mentioned.
Aussie Test captain Pat Cummins was additionally lashed after his cringeworthy second on the Australian Cricket Awards.
Cummins and counterpart Meg Lanning admitted they have been studying off an autocue as they stumbled by way of a dialog on stage. But it obtained much more cringeworthy when Lanning missed her subsequent cue and the pair awkwardly stared into useless silence for 10 seconds, glancing at one another with confused appears to be like whereas the viewers in Sydney burst into laughter.
Molloy mentioned of the awkward silence: “The highlight of the night for me was the chemistry between Pat Cummins and Meg Lanning. That pause went longer than a West Indian Test match”.
Cummins can be again on TV from February 9 when the First Test begins from Nagpur.
Source: www.news.com.au
