One last game for Pidge!

Pidge will play a T20 game against the Bulls on Jan 8.

http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/australia/content/story/316419.html

24 more balls then, and maybe another duck?

lardbucket wrote:24 more balls then, and maybe another duck?

Be nice to see the big guy bowl again . . .

Almost worth attending a 20 over match.

He looks like Ronnie Irani in that Pic!

Let's hope he doesn't get injured beforehand.

Why doesn't he play a few Sheild games as well? I am sure he would still be their best bowler.....

This seems the most appropriate thread for this news:

Glenn McGrath and his second wife Sara are expecting their first child together. The cricketing star had a vasectomy in 2003 but after two rounds of IVF Sara is now three months pregnant and is due in October. The new baby will join half-siblings James, 15, and Holly, 13, who are McGrath's children from his previous marriage to late wife Jane, who died of breast cancer in 2008. "We're adding to our family and we couldn't be more delighted," McGrath told Australian Women's Weekly. (AP)

He just can't stop shooting, can he?

nice story

A bit more eye-watering detail:

McGrath underwent microsurgery to extract sperm directly from his testicles, while his wife underwent IVF to harvest a healthy batch of eggs.

Embryo transfers using surgically extracted sperm are rare. Fewer than 3000 or four per cent of embryo transfers in 2012 involved surgically retrieved sperm and less than one third of these led to pregnancy, according to the latest figures from the Australian and New Zealand Assisted Reproduction Database.

The procedure is used among men who have had vasectomies, as well as sportsmen who have suffered testicular injury, according to fertility specialist and medical director of Fertility First, Anne Clarke.

"A vasectomy doesn't stop sperm production in the testes, so effectively you start to get a build up like a balloon … After a certain time, it's like it blows a hole in the balloon and sperm is released," Dr Clarke said.

The man's immune system, which considers the sperm a foreign body, starts attacking it with antibodies.

This happens about five years after a vasectomy, once a significant amount of sperm has collected in the epididymus, the narrow tube that transports sperm from the testes.

"That's why, even after a reversal, men might get a lot less sperm in their ejaculate [and may still require surgical sperm retrieval]," Dr Clarke said.

The procedure, usually performed under local anaesthetic, involves using a very fine needle to take the sperm directly from the testes.

Good for him, but how is this news?

Henry wrote:Good for him, but how is this news?

Women's Weekly is not news.

Henry wrote:Good for him, but how is this news?

I think they are trying to say he isn't a wanker.

As is usual with McGrath ....it's all a load of bollocks.

JGK wrote:

Henry wrote:Good for him, but how is this news?

Women's Weekly is not news.

Browsing the Women's Weekly website at work, eh?

I saw it on the Sydney Morning Herald website as well.

JGK wrote:
"A vasectomy doesn't stop sperm production in the testes, so effectively you start to get a build up like a balloon … after certain time, it's like it blows a hole in the balloon and sperm is released," Dr Clarke said..

Nasty prospect, that 'back pressure'.

I would be highlighting this paragraph for Mrs JGK and insisting that 'a certain time' was about half an hour. Can't let those little blighters build up. Start carrying a sock to work and wincing with manful forbearance every hour or so, hopefully she will get the hint.

Puts a whole new perspective on "toxic sperm build-up".

must say I am opponent of IVF...philosophically and financially...but hey I wont be churlish about it.

I'm not


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horace wrote:must say I am opponent of IVF...philosophically and financially...but hey I wont be churlish about it.

How can you be philosophically against IVF?

h isnt a breeder

an inheritor!

like a lotta things ivf means defective individuals are breeding. brings down the overall standard of the species

not being judgmental one way or the other. just stating a fact

Ethics? The Gall! wrote:like a lotta things ivf means defective individuals are breeding.  brings down the overall standard of the species

not being judgmental one way or the other.  just stating a fact

Sounds judgmental to me. And wrong.

And harsh as all fark.