The following is an excerpt from the speech:
<blockquote>I'm deeply honoured to be the first Australian to deliver the Harbhajan
Oration, or, for that matter, the first person of any nationality to care
enough to do something like this.
Distinguished guests, not many of you will be aware, but the name Harbhajan Singh has a very strong cultural resonance back in Australia.
The impact he has had on the popular imagination there cannot be understated.
For example, most Australians still ask themselves if they remember where they were and what they were doing when they first saw the "Make It Large" series of commercials featuring Bhajji.
So deeply scarred is our psyche.
Now, a lot of people have wondered how a bowler who could barely spin the ball can have taken 400-plus wickets.
The answer, in my opinion, is simple - give the ball to any chump off the street, ask him to play as many games and bowl as many overs as Bhajji has, refuse to drop him for bad performances, and he'll get you 400 wickets.
It's the classic case of :</blockquote>The
Infinite Monkey Theorem,
the premise being that a monkey banging away at a typewriter for an infinite amount of time will almost surely, by chance and time alone, end up writing the entire works of Shakespeare.
Yeah, I said it. I said the M word. Ha! Take that, Bhajji!
Did you know because of the incident with Harbhajan, the interest in primates in Australia has grown tenfold?
But I digress. I'd like to take the opportunity to talk about some of the problems facing our noble game, which has given me so much beer to drink over the years.
It's been said before but it can never be said enough: the biggest challenge facing the game today is that there are just way too many ODIs and T20 games being played without Andrew Symonds.
These slam-bang limited-overs run-fests are making the longer version of the game meaningless, especially in light of my not being picked to play in any of them.
What I'm trying to say is, more clubs need to holler at me, cos I ain't done yet.
Um, if not for my sake, then do it for Test cricket… ?
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