Geek of the day

Honestly, you send a private email to a mate on another blog and suddenly he is trumpeting your geekery to the world. As Will has outed me now as a complete saddo, I paste a fuller version of my working-out here:

Mike Hussey is a long way from being justifiably called Bradmanesque - he only averages 87 in his 18th Test for a start, whereas Bradman was averaging 112 at the same point of his career - but he is getting that way. Hussey, not out over night in Hobart, has scored 1,831 runs in 21 completed Test innings.

There are 25 more Tests for Australia before the next Ashes series so if Hussey plays in each match and gets not outs at the present rate then he will have 31 completed innings before the Ashes.

So... I think that means he needs another 3,369 runs in those 31 completed innings to be averaging 100 by the time the Ashes starts, which means that he needs to average 109 from here on in (of course, he has the rest of this match to knock that down a little).

Perhaps once he gets to an average of 100 he will consider retiring to maintain his average? Ideally, just before the Lord's Test...