Australian Domestic Season 2017/18

[NUFAN]

Bowlers with 20 wickets at under 30 for both 2016/17 and the current season:

Tremain 42 wkts @ 18.97 & 43 @ 21.65
Boland 29 @ 27.62 & 36 @ 25.61
Feldman 23 @ 23.21 & 33 @ 20.03

Add in 15/16:
Tremain 36 @ 21.05
Boland 33 @ 20.93

in 14/15 Boland just missed out 25 @ 30.12.

That's pretty excellent from the Victorian pair.


Renshaw
15/16 738 @ 43.41 (40.95)
16/17 198 @ 49.50 (53.95)
17/18 678 @ 42.37 (54.19)

I've added in his strike rate just to show the increase from his first full season.

 

[brockley]

Tom Cooper dropped from Redback team.End of state career?NSW?

 

[Dan]

Tom Cooper always gets dropped from the Redbacks team at the end of a season, we always think it's the end of the line for him, and then he gets called up into the List A team the following year, makes a ton, and survives a bit longer.

The wheel is forever.

 

[quincywagstaff]

Pretty amazing that it's close to 20 years now in the Sheffield Shield since two of the six sides involved (WA & SA) have actually won it.

West Australia's record is even more curious in that they've never finished bottom in all those years; however that might change this year.

 

[Spikey]

Tom Cooper dropped from Redback team.End of state career?NSW?

Not too yet for him to make a heroic homecoming in the Gong tomorrow

 

[Starfighter]

Renshaw out for eight, WA lose a wicket in the first over, Doolan failing. It's an 'early wicket' sort of morning. Notably, everyone's chosen to bowl.

 

[Burgey]

Of course they pick Abbott for the week of the Grade quarter finals. fmd.

 

[Prince EWS]

I didn't actually realise Cowan's retirement was immediate and not just after the season.

 

[stephen]

Must be a juicy wicket - Copeland involved in all 6 QLD wickets so far.

 

[Gnske]

I can't believe Joe Burns got out with THAT shot. It was too good to fail.

 

[Loose Cannon]

Did you know there are only 3 batsman who have scored over 400 runs and averaged 40 in both the 2016/17 season and 2017/18 seasons.

Marcus Harris 808 @ 42.52 & 681 @ 45.40
Jo Burns 724 @ 40.22 & 514 @ 57.11
Travis Head 645 @ 43 & 660 @ 47.14

Probably surprising to some is that Aaron Finch is almost there (581 @ 52.82 & 479 @ 39.91).

or put in a slightly different way, that doesn't screw Bailey or Turner...

Combined SS seasons 16/17 & 17/18

(min. 800 runs, min. 35 average/season)

JA Burns ............48.41...1307
GJ Bailey............47.38....1374
AJ Finch..............46.09....1060
AJ Turner............45.03....1351
TM Head.............45.00....1305
MS Harris............43.79....1489
MT Renshaw.......42.10....884
KR Patterson.......40.84....1266
DP Hughes..........39.62....1149

 

[Starfighter]

I can't believe Joe Burns got out with THAT shot. It was too good to fail.

A real doozy.

 

[Burgey]

How come Bailey didn't play for Tassie this game?

Edit: my bad. he is indeed playing.

 

[NUFAN]

or put in a slightly different way, that doesn't screw Bailey or Turner...

Combined SS seasons 16/17 & 17/18

(min. 800 runs, min. 35 average/season)

JA Burns ............48.41...1307
GJ Bailey............47.38....1374
AJ Finch..............46.09....1060
AJ Turner............45.03....1351
TM Head.............45.00....1305
MS Harris............43.79....1489
MT Renshaw.......42.10....884
KR Patterson.......40.84....1266
DP Hughes..........39.62....1149

Interesting list, good to see every state representing.

 

[Dan]

NSW missing out on a full season of #IndiaTheory by failing to change their bowling attack today:

Name	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7	Round 8	Round 9	Round 10
Starc	X	X
Cummins	X	X
Copeland	X		X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
Lyon	X	X	X			X
Hazlewood		X
Abbott			X	X	X				X	X
Bollinger			X	X	X
O'Keefe				X	X			X	X	X
Conway					X			X	X	X
Sandhu						X		X
Stobo						X	X
Edwards						X	X
Somerville							X
Fallins							X
Uppal									X	X

 

[Prince EWS]

When your first choice attack is literally the Test attack, your best bowler outside of that spends half the season injured,and you have a bloke retire mid-season, it does lend itself to that slightly. But still...

 

[Spikey]

Copes Copeland did well to survive the massacre of round 7

 

[Dan]

The bit that confuses me the most is the constant rotation between Stobo/Edwards/Sandhu/Conway/Abbott in the second half of the season. It just doesn't make any real sense. It's like they've each got a fifth of a dartboard and they throw two darts before naming the team list. And in Round 6 the second dart landed right on a line so they picked both of 'em to be fair.

 

[Dan]

ftr they have held on to #IndiaTheory for the whole team though. Cowan retirement means they made a change for this match, right?

 

[Prince EWS]

ftr they have held on to #IndiaTheory for the whole team though. Cowan retirement means they made a change for this match, right?

Yeah Maddinson is in for him.

It just sunk in that Cowan never did get that First Class wicket he always wanted, too. Had a good chance a couple of games ago when he bowled all those overs but took 0/62. Sad.

I blame NSW's selectors for picking six or seven bowlers in every game, and Hobart's groundsman for ensuring no innings went long enough during Cowan's Tassie career to require a sixth bowler. His leggies weren't terrible at all.