Nannes shocked by Australia call-up

by S M August 13, 2009

"I was sitting at home and the phone rang and it was Michael Brown and he normally calls either if you're selected or you've done something wrong and I was scratching my brain to work out what I'd done wrong because I had no idea there were even Twenty20s in England, I hadn't even looked. Complete surprise!" Fast bowler Dirk Nannes said.

"It hasn't sunk in for me but my wife was jumping up and down."

"Bizarre the way the world turns isn't it? At the time I certainly didn't think I'd get a go," he said.

"But at the time I didn't really know there was another Twenty20 World Cup coming up next year again.

"It's just bizarre, certainly when you're growing up as a kid you think about it but cricket's been a bit of a world wind for me, starting so late and it's kind of crept along and crept along and one day I'm playing for Victoria which I thought was amazing the next day I got the IPL gig and then I'm playing in the World Cup for Holland and then this, it's all a bit bizarre and it's probably going to be in 10 years when I sit down and go 'geez I've done some pretty good things'."

"It's a super plus for me that I've done that, who knows whether I would have been selected if I didn't play for them ... I had a great experience there and it's done me a world of good," he said.

"It was good fun, and it was certainly unique because everyone there, they're all amateurs ... I was playing with a Burger King manager and a debt collector and an insurance salesman and they were just having fun playing cricket.

"That moment of winning the game against England at Lord's was probably the best sporting moment I've had and I'll never forget that."

"I've never really thought too much about my cricket in that respect going forward what I'm going to do. It's a bit of a cliche but I take it as it comes ... I'd like to think I'm not just going to be selected for a couple of games and hopefully I do well and get selected going forward," he said.