***Official*** Australian Domestic Season 2010/11

[Sylvester]

Geez Maxwell is in good form. Has made runs in all of his last 4 innings, with 3 scores over 50.

 

[Nate]

Copeland and O'Keefe! Best game.

 

[Crazy Sam]

Hopes with yet another 6 wicket haul. He's been on fire this year.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

How O'Keefe was overlooked for Michael ****ing Beer is beyond me.

Coulter-Nile with early wickets again. He's having an awesome season - great to see him actually put a few games together instead of going down with an injury. With Coulter-Nile and Duffield leading it, the Warriors pace attack could be pretty threatening if Hogan gets fit.

 

[brockley]

Heard a rumour that was damien wrights last game (forum rumour),any word on whether shane harwood is available next year.

 

[brockley]

Oh just read it in the paper he has retired now.

 

[TumTum]

Copeland is amazing, keeps getting top-order wickets, every match.

 

[stephen]

Hopes with yet another 6 wicket haul. He's been on fire this year.

Interestingly, that's the second game in a row that Hopes has taken 8+ wickets and made a half century and not been given MotM. Lynn deserves it though.

 

[stephen]

Copeland is amazing, keeps getting top-order wickets, every match.

He's beating down the door as fast as he can. Really can't do much more than what he's doing.

Interestingly James Hopes was in the top 10 run scorers and top 10 wicket takers this shield season. He's in incredible form at the moment. Would have been better than Hastings IMO.

 

[robelinda]

Hopes in this current form would be pushing for test selection, if he was a few years younger. Some great numbers with bat and ball, but I think Butterworth might be very close to a test spot, along with Copeland. You gotta seriously look at the guys who are in stunning form and playing some great cricket, and are the 'right' age.

 

[SirBloody Idiot]

Admittedly I haven't seen Butterworth in ages, but he never looked like a test cricketer to me. Can't imagine his bowling would be threatening on the types of tracks you get in international cricket.

 

[Crazy Sam]

Meanwhile I think the Bulls have done an exceptional job to finish in 3rd position in the Sheffield Shield this season, even if Hopes and Lynn carried the team for much of it.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Be a very interesting situation in SA. From all reports, Berry has always been a Crosthwaite fan, because he was a much more natural wicket-keeper than Wade. A more inconsistent batsman though.

But when Berry started coaching, he played an instrumental role in getting Tim Ludeman to Carlton, and he was keeping while Nathan Pilon played as a pure batsman to help him develop. He remained one of Ludo's big fans.

I think that Chuck would know that, as pure cricketers, Crossy is a better player. But Ludo has stayed in the system, probably fitter, and would likely have the support of the hierarchy. Very interesting situation.

 

[Prince EWS]

The regular part of the Shield season is over so I thought I'd post up some stats.

Most Runs

[B]Player		Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	0	4s	6s[/B]

RJ Quiney	10	19	2	724	106	42.58	1313	55.14	2	4	1	81	8
MJ Cosgrove	10	16	2	715	159	51.07	1036	69.01	2	3	0	104	5
AJ Finch	10	20	1	645	84	33.94	1361	47.39	0	5	0	67	9
CA Lynn		9	15	3	641	172	53.41	1287	49.80	2	2	1	85	9
AC Blizzard	10	19	1	610	141*	33.88	1023	59.62	2	3	3	81	6
UT Khawaja	6	10	2	598	214	74.75	1024	58.39	1	4	0	75	4
JR Hopes	7	11	1	587	92	58.70	739	79.43	0	6	0	78	6
AC Voges	10	19	4	578	108	38.53	1151	50.21	1	2	3	69	2
PA Jaques	10	19	1	575	129	31.94	974	59.03	2	0	0	61	3
GA Manou	9	16	0	573	116	35.81	1088	52.66	1	4	4	69	4
MS Wade		10	18	2	553	113*	34.56	1264	43.75	1	3	0	72	1
WM Robinson	8	15	0	546	98	36.40	1357	40.23	0	4	0	64	7
DJ Harris	8	15	1	507	105*	36.21	1083	46.81	1	3	0	64	4
MJ North	7	14	2	488	158	40.66	1071	45.56	2	1	0	63	1
BJ Rohrer	7	12	2	467	88	46.70	852	54.81	0	5	1	49	5
AB McDonald	6	8	2	458	163	76.33	539	84.97	3	1	2	47	8
GJ Bailey	10	16	2	453	160*	32.35	883	51.30	1	1	1	53	3
AJ Doolan	9	14	1	443	122	34.07	1021	43.38	1	3	3	44	1
NJ Maddinson	7	12	1	437	137	39.72	960	45.52	2	1	0	57	3
SE Marsh	4	7	0	414	137	59.14	952	43.48	1	3	0	55	3

Most Wickets

Player		Mat	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	5	10

LR Butterworth	9	252.5	78	647	43	6/51	9/77	15.04	2.55	35.2	2	0
TA Copeland	9	371.4	108	934	40	6/51	9/93	23.35	2.51	55.7	1	0
AJ Maher	8	238.0	77	572	37	5/14	8/56	15.45	2.40	38.5	1	0
R Duffield	7	230.1	55	756	33	6/77	9/141	22.90	3.28	41.8	1	0
JP Faulkner	8	174.0	42	521	32	5/5	8/97	16.28	2.99	32.6	2	0
PM Siddle	7	247.2	53	748	32	6/89	8/139	23.37	3.02	46.3	1	0
LW Feldman	8	280.1	73	911	30	6/37	8/116	30.36	3.25	56.0	1	0
CR Swan		7	175.1	47	471	28	7/75	13/144	16.82	2.68	37.5	2	1
MG Hogan	9	345.3	90	980	28	6/70	6/98	35.00	2.83	74.0	1	0
JR Hopes	7	245.4	75	543	27	6/50	8/116	20.11	2.21	54.5	2	0
DG Wright	8	300.0	86	797	26	5/62	6/74	30.65	2.65	69.2	1	0
PR George	6	172.3	43	546	24	5/28	9/93	22.75	3.16	43.1	1	0
BW Hilfenhaus	6	234.0	57	692	23	4/44	7/134	30.08	2.95	61.0	0	0
DT Christian	9	260.5	59	838	23	3/20	5/68	36.43	3.21	68.0	0	0
MA Cameron	4	100.2	17	321	21	6/22	11/52	15.28	3.19	28.6	2	1
NM Coulter-Nile	4	150.5	38	463	21	5/57	8/118	22.04	3.06	43.0	1	0
MA Beer		10	325.2	81	978	21	3/39	4/111	46.57	3.00	92.9	0	0
SNJ O'Keefe	4	130.2	36	334	19	4/65	7/115	17.57	2.56	41.1	0	0
XJ Doherty	7	234.2	69	508	19	5/83	7/145	26.73	2.16	74.0	1	0
NM Hauritz	6	179.2	38	509	19	5/39	7/104	26.78	2.83	56.6	1	0p

Definitely good to see a few spinners with good season figures for a change. Hopefully O'Keefe can somehow be given a full season next year because he's comfortably the best long-form spinning option in the country IMO. Adam Maher certainly snuck up on me! No doubt that Tasmania have played on some sporting wickets but he's had an awesome finish to the season to end up where he is.

A team of the season would look something like this:

[B]			Mts	Runs	Ave	Wkts	Ave[/B]

1	MJ Cosgrove	10	715	51.07
2	SE Marsh	4	414	59.14
3	UT Khawaja	6	598	74.75	1	21.00
4	CA Lynn		9	641	53.41
5	RJ Quiney	10	742	42.58	1	130.00
6	JR Hopes	7	587	58.70	27	20.11
7	GA Manou	9	573	35.81		
8	LR Butterworth	9	293	29.30	43	15.04
9	SNJ O'Keefe	4	79	15.08	19	17.57
10	TA Copeland	9	115	16.42	40	23.35
11	AJ Maher	8	46	7.66	37	15.45

Top order batting has definitely become a concern when you consider that Cosgrove who only opened in one game and Marsh who only actually played four games are the opening pair there. Openers did better after Christmas as you'd expect (Harris turned his season around, Warner and Kruger came into their respective teams and did well etc) but it definitely wasn't a season for openers overall.

 

[robelinda]

Faulkner, Butterworth, Maher- now thats why Tassie are number one. Outstanding seasons with the ball, brilliant.

 

[Noble One]

It has been a season for the bowlers (both pace and spin). Some incredible records from very unlikely bowlers. So many bowlers with a < 25 average.

Perhaps we have seen some more sporting wickets this season, but most teams have horrible depth in batting.

 

[Prince EWS]

Faulkner, Butterworth, Maher- now thats why Tassie are number one. Outstanding seasons with the ball, brilliant.

Their pitch helped in that regard, but yeah, indeed. Doherty took 19 FC wickets @ 26 as well which they probably wouldn't have been banking on.

 

[andyc]

Most Wickets

Player		Mat	Overs	Mdns	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	5	10


MA Beer		10	325.2	81	978	21	3/39	4/111	46.57	3.00	92.9	0	0
SNJ O'Keefe	4	130.2	36	334	19	4/65	7/115	17.57	2.56	41.1	0	0
XJ Doherty	7	234.2	69	508	19	5/83	7/145	26.73	2.16	74.0	1	0
NM Hauritz	6	179.2	38	509	19	5/39	7/104	26.78	2.83	56.6	1	0p

Michael Beer - best spinner in Australia.

 

[Top_Cat]

Yeah, tbh, those lists are somewhat worrying. Not many Test players in there. Even taking into account sporting decks, no-one came within shouting distance of 1000+/50+ for the season, the top-5 all med-quick swing bowlers. A damning indictment of techniques running around in Shield cricket?

 

[NUFAN]

The players who had the potential to score close to 1000 runs in the season just didn't play enough matches. I'm talking about Khawaja, Marsh and probably even McDonald after his excellent start.

For my money James Hopes is the Shield Player of the Year. Top 10 in both categories is awesome going. Mark Cosgrove would have to be a close second. People have mentioned the Tassie quicks excellent success on some sporting wickets, well Cosy had to bat on them and did very well.

Hopefully after the final Cosgrove and Copeland take out the titles.