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

Spark

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Well he just got a wicket. Cummins has been the best though.

Amazing that he bowls at that pace at such an age with pretty good control.
 
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Sylvester

Sylvester

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This looks like his best Shield performance, in his other ones he was a bit wayward. When you have a better economy and more maidens than Copeland you are traveling pretty well.
 
Burgey

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Copeland is the Chinese Water Torture of first class cricket in Australia, it seems. Just remorselessly accurate.
 
Sylvester

Sylvester

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One of the reasons Hilfy keeps getting picked is his workhorse ability which has been a bit of a myth of late. Copeland on the other hand looks like the perfect guy for that role.
 
TumTum

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Why do you guys call Hughes "The Prince"?

Good to see him find some form again, he's so awesome when he gets it right.
 
Spark

Spark

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Actually that's a good question. Why do you call him the Prince?

Jaques has been busy last 20 minutes or so.
 
Prince EWS

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Spark said:
Actually that's a good question. Why do you call him the Prince?

Jaques has been busy last 20 minutes or so.
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They were creating lots of duplicates over at another forum which would rhyme with my username if you said EWS as an acronym - Prince SHOES, Prince CHEWS, Prince BREWS, Prince OF JEWS etc. One of them created "Prince Phil Hughes". Name sort of stuck after that.
 
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Prince EWS said:
They were creating lots of duplicates over at another forum which would rhyme with my username if you said EWS as an acronym - Prince SHOES, Prince CHEWS, Prince BREWS, Prince OF JEWS etc. One of them created "Prince Phil Hughes". Name sort of stuck after that.
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One of them.

Dont insult me, ****.
 
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iamdavid

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Sylvester said:
One of the reasons Hilfy keeps getting picked is his workhorse ability which has been a bit of a myth of late. Copeland on the other hand looks like the perfect guy for that role.
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Hmm Hilf has very good fundamentals though. As ineffective as he's been sometimes of late, he still bowls a heavy ball at 135-145 kph and he consistently gets it to move away... His control is the icing on the cake. Not that pace and looking good matters if you can take stacks of wickets, but based on the few times I've seen Copeland bowl I've got doubts about how he would go at test level. His control is certainly good, but I don't think it's McGrath/Ambrose good, and as plenty of people have picked up on today he's about as pedestrian as they come....Think Stuart Clark at Leeds/The Oval in 2009, he'll do well against impatient batting or when there's a bit in the deck, but otherwise pretty ineffective.
 
Nate

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Another beautiful day of Shield Cricket. I love the disciplined line and length bowling of the NSW attack. Will say it again, NSW > Australia.
 
Sylvester

Sylvester

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iamdavid said:
Hmm Hilf has very good fundamentals though. As ineffective as he's been sometimes of late, he still bowls a heavy ball at 135-145 kph and he consistently gets it to move away... His control is the icing on the cake. Not that pace and looking good matters if you can take stacks of wickets, but based on the few times I've seen Copeland bowl I've got doubts about how he would go at test level. His control is certainly good, but I don't think it's McGrath/Ambrose good, and as plenty of people have picked up on today he's about as pedestrian as they come....Think Stuart Clark at Leeds/The Oval in 2009, he'll do well against impatient batting or when there's a bit in the deck, but otherwise pretty ineffective.
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I do have some doubts but it's hard to ignore his figures so far. Given Hilfy has been struggling for wickets, I wouldn't mind seeing how Copeland would go at the next level. If he can maintain his control he has shown in Shield cricket and keep nagging away till he eventually gets the wicket then he'll be a handy asset for Australia. The other 2 seamers will be the ones looking to strike.
 
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iamdavid

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Sylvester said:
I do have some doubts but it's hard to ignore his figures so far. Given Hilfy has been struggling for wickets, I wouldn't mind seeing how Copeland would go at the next level. If he can maintain his control he has shown in Shield cricket and keep nagging away till he eventually gets the wicket then he'll be a handy asset for Australia. The other 2 seamers will be the ones looking to strike.
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Yeah they could do worse than giving him a go I suppose, never know til you try.. I just fear he'll be like Stu Clark at The Oval or a late-career Shaun Pollock, where for all their skill and control they weren't even able to be economical on flat tracks because the ball was coming out at 118kph.
 
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