George Bailey seems like a bloody good bloke. Which makes potting him on Australia Day quite difficult.

The Tassie boss was plucked from relative obscurity and wedged into Australia’s T20 captaincy role this week amid much head-scratching and void thought bubbles from our fanbase.

John delivers the news whilst George appears constipated.

The easy part of the equation was putting Cameron White out to pasture after he forced the selectors hands with a ginger BBL campaign filled to the brim with hesitant hooey and hogwash.

But I highly doubt anyone would’ve predicted Bailey would be the man to lead us forward into this year’s 20 over calendar.

Cricket Australia has long seen George as a teacher’s pet in the captaincy dojo.

He was handed the reins at Tasmania in 2009/10 after years of habitual run-collecting in the state ranks. He teed off with a fairytale by leading the Tigers to a memorable 50 over title in his first year at the helm.

We should’ve known his papers were confirmed for ‘rapid elevation at first opportunity’ when he was named captain of the star-studded Australia A side that took on New Zealand at the start of this summer.

His experience in 20 over cricket overall is broad; he’s been on the payroll at the Chennai Super Kings as well as an obvious mainstay in the Tigers structure.

Basically, he would’ve been a bloody popular selection if he was spewing runs everywhere.

But no player is excused from the power-hose of statistical scrutiny, and in this case, George is a captain who is going to be calling the shots whilst saturated.

George churned out 114 runs at an average of 19.00 in the inaugural BBL and has only scored one T20 half-century in the last 3 seasons. Glue this with the fact that he is yet to pull on the green and gold, and you can safely mark this decision with the big red stamp of ‘gamble.’

So I can hear the wails… ‘Eld you tipsy unpatriotic tosser, who should be the man?’

WTF?

Personally, I would’ve given the role to David Hussey.

This bloke is arguably Australia’s most well-honed T20 cricketer who possesses experience in a myriad of measures and conditions. His batting is the most eye-catching of his talents; he has violently chowed-down on T20 bowling at various levels for years now.

With David Warner’s plate at the risk of becoming oversized and Shane Watson returning to the old days of being permanently rooted to a massage table, I believe it leaves the lesser Hussey as the obvious choice.

The final selling point is that he’s the only bloke in the team left on the KFC adverts.

I implore all Sprayers to have their say on our national day! Is it unfair that I’ve questioned our new leader at this sacred point in time on our calendar? Or does he deserve the standard Australian cricket fan approach of ‘guilty until proven innocent?’ Put down your zinger burger and have a crack ya mugs!