Craik Park, Austral, is home ground for the United States football team.

The Pirates have been flying the flag for the Liverpool sporting community for more than two decades.

But the one piece of treasure which eludes the team is the Waratah Bowl the NSW Gridiron League's equivalent of the Superbowl.

Should the Pirates topple UTS this Saturday they will be in the decider on Saturday, December6.

SPINNER Jason Krejza should be back in the Australian Test cricket team starting Friday in Adelaide against the Kiwis.

Incredibly, the Casula boy, who learned his craft in the Fairfield Liverpool Cricket Association, but is now playing for Tasmania, was not selected in the Brisbane Test match.

No excuses or claptrap from the selectors will convince me otherwise about why he was left out. You pick the batsman and bowlers in form, simple as that.

Krejza spunout the Indian batsmen, who eat spin bowling for breakfast on their flat pitches, taking a staggering 12 wickets in Nagpur on debut.

While the Gabba wicket was greener than a billiards table, Krejza's super debut deserved better treatment than be made to carry the drinks in Brisbane.

Inconsistent all-rounder Shane Watson has got the chop for this Friday's Test and Victorian fast bowler Peter Siddle has been added to the 12.

But the Adelaide wicket does turn and the wicket becomes dusty and breaks up later in the match, so enter the off-spinner Krejza, to play his debut Test on Aussie soil.

STILL on cricket, welcome aboard to new Fairfield Liverpool first-grade fast bowler Stuart Meaker. The right-arm quick adds further strikepower to the Lions' fast bowling ranks and judging by his debut taking 4-36 on Saturday against Parramatta at Rosedale Oval, the club has made a good choice. Meaker plays for Surrey in the English country championship and the new British Lion is here for the rest of the season.

THE Russian men's indoor soccer team is playing a Futsal NSW representative team tomorrow night, Thursday, at the Michael Wenden Centre at Miller, at 7pm.