The incredible Hilf

Robert Craddock writes in the Courier-Mail about another potential retirement – this time it’s Ben Hilfenhaus from bricklaying. Hilfenhaus, a swing bowler from Tasmania, impressed during Tuesday’s Twenty20 game and is on the verge of a capturing a lucrative Cricket Australia contract.

As recently as last March, the unpretentious blue-collar boy from the township of Ulverstone on Tasmania's north-west coast supplemented his modest cricket earnings by working as a brickie's labourer ... Touted as a bolter for Australia's Cricket World Cup squad, he is set to snare a Cricket Australia contract that will guarantee him around $200,000 earnings next year.

The same paper reveals how Damien Martyn will tell the world why he quit.