Australian Domestic Off Season 2018

[KRIS 148]

I think you can discount him as a spinner. Not much point if you can't bowl without chucking.

Nair's hope is if he can make it as a batsman, Steve Smith-style.

Funny how that did not apply to Murali. Nair has been passed fit to bowl this season. Have faith.

One of the members was talking of fast tracking youngsters before they had a chance to play against seasoned Grade cricketers. Well Nair started playing Hawkesbury First grade at, believe it or not,15.. Younger than Steve Smith and Steve Waugh. I have footage of this small kid smashing big, brawny quicks to all parts. He also took a 6 fer at 17 years in a U19 final if memory serves.

 

[brockley]

Sure Kris.
Sandhu has bowled both medium pace and off spin for both Australia A and New South Wales.
The potential is there.
Tasmania have 2 spinners on rookie deals.And no one replaćed Cameron Boyće as chief spinner.
Webster averaged mid 20.s and hardly bowled.

 

[KRIS 148]

Prince EWS
Sandhu bowled some offies for Australia A in India and took a couple of wickets; Brockley is speculating over whether Tasmania might select him to do a Colin Miller and bowl a bit of both.

Now I see his point. Tassie may do. He took plenty of wickets on that A tour from memory. Kinda sad the downhill slide Sandhu has taken the past few year. A move to the Tigers just may be the tonic he needs to revive his career. He is after all a Steve Waugh medallist.

 

[KRIS 148]

Sure Kris.
Sandhu has bowled both medium pace and off spin for both Australia A and New South Wales.
The potential is there.
Tasmania have 2 spinners on rookie deals.And no one replaćed Cameron Boyće as chief spinner.
Webster averaged mid 20.s and hardly bowled.

Reckon Boyce got a harsh deal from Tassie cricket. Barely a Shield game if memory serves. I rated him as a leggie. Good composure but he could not bat. Goes to show you that for a slow bowler having a second string to his bow is almost imperitive these days.

 

[KRIS 148]

Funny how that did not apply to Murali. Nair has been passed fit to bowl this season. Have faith.

One of the members was saying he was against fast tracking youngsters before they had a chance to play against seasoned Grade cricketers. Well Nair started playing Hawkesbury First grade at, believe it or not,15.. Younger than Steve Smith and Steve Waugh. I have footage of this small kid smashing big, brawny quicks to all parts. He also took a 6 fer at 17 yrs in a National U19 final (see below) .
https://youtu.be/h8mGtQPazwE

 

[brockley]

Now Somerville has headed back 2 NZ.Daniel Fallins is the 2nd spinner in NSW.So big job for Nair.Fallins took 10/12 wkts for CA xl against England.Nair a bigger chance in making our T20 squad with the Thunder.

 

[Prince EWS]

One of the members was saying he was against fast tracking youngsters before they had a chance to play against seasoned Grade cricketers. Well Nair started playing Hawkesbury First grade at, believe it or not,15.. Younger than Steve Smith and Steve Waugh. I have footage of this small kid smashing big, brawny quicks to all parts. He also took a 6 fer in a U19 final if memory serves.

Haha he was Australia's YouTube kid. There was footage of him when he was about ten smashing bowling machine balls on YouTube.

 

[morgieb]

Haha he was Australia's YouTube kid. There was footage of him when he was about ten smashing bowling machine balls on YouTube.

I'm glad that the two YouTube kids are actually really promising players, every time I think of those I don't expect them to go anywhere in their sporting careers lol

 

[brockley]

Fallins wàs my smokey for the A team.12 at 25 beats Agar and the QlD spinner who averaged st 40.

 

[KRIS 148]

Now Somerville has headed back 2 NZ.Daniel Fallins is the 2nd spinner in NSW.So big job for Nair.Fallins took 10/12 wkts for CA xl against England.Nair a bigger chance in making our T20 squad with the Thunder.

Was wondering where Somerville went. He is an Aussie cit I was told.. so what is he doing heading back to NZ? Fallins' time will come. A big prospect. Dont write off Nair. He will make his mark for the Blues this year.

 

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Who is the second YT kid?

 

[Prince EWS]

Who is the second YT kid?

http://www.cricketweb.net/forum/cricket-chat/37405-rachin-kiwi-wonderkid.html

Rachin Ravindra | New Zealand Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | ESPNcricinfo

He first went viral on YT age 6; now he's just finished playing the Under 19 World Cup and is on tour with the New Zealand A side.

 

[KRIS 148]

QLD BULLS 2018/19 Shield Squad:
Full Contracts

Xavier Bartlett (Gold Coast) (NEW)

Joe Burns (Norths)

Brendan Doggett (Wests)

Luke Feldman (Valley)

Jason Floros (Wynnum-Manly)

Cameron Gannon (Norths)

Peter George (Wynnum-Manly)

Sam Heazlett (Redlands)

Charlie Hemphrey (Sandgate-Redcliffe)

Marnus Labuschagne (Redlands)

Michael Neser (Gold Coast)

Lachlan Pfeffer (Valley)

James Peirson (Redlands)

Jack Prestwidge (Norths) (NEW)

Mark Steketee (Valley)

Mitch Swepson (Sandgate-Redcliffe)

Sam Truloff (Wests)

Jack Wildermuth (Valley)



Rookie Contracts

Max Bryant (Gold Coast)

Blake Edwards (Wests) (NEW)

Matthew Kuhnemann (Gold Coast)

Nathan McSweeney (Norths) (NEW)

Bryce Street (Sandgate-Redcliffe)

Connor Sully (Norths) (NEW). have your say.

 

[KRIS 148]

WA 2018/19 Shield Squad:
Cameron Bancroft

Jason Behrendorff

William Bosisto

Jake Carder

Hilton Cartwright

Nathan Coulter-Nile

Cameron Green

Liam Guthrie

Matthew Kelly

Joshua Inglis

Simon Mackin

David Moody

Joel Paris

Josh Philippe

D’Arcy Short

Ashton Turner

Jonathan Wells

Sam Whiteman

Rookie contract

Alex Bevilaqua

Tim David

Aaron Hardie

Clint Hinchliffe

Lance Morris

Matthew Spoors

Have your say.

 

[Prince EWS]

Floros actually retired a couple of weeks ago; they've given Chris Lynn his contract but only expect him to be available for the one dayers.

 

[brockley]

India A and B,match abandoned.
No call on Australia and S Africa A yet,monsoonal rains in the country atm.
Can't find coverage anywhere,oh well.

 

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2018-19 TASMANIAN TIGERS SQUAD:
George BAILEY
Gabe BELL
Jackson BIRD – From Cricket Australia
Nicholas BUCHANAN
Alex DOOLAN
Jake DORAN
James FAULKNER
Caleb JEWELL – Upgraded
Hamish KINGSTON – Re-Contracted
Ben MCDERMOTT
Riley MEREDITH – Upgraded
Simon MILENKO
Sam RAINBIRD
Tom ROGERS
Gurinder SANDHU – From NSW Blues
Jordan SILK
Matthew WADE – From Cricket Australia
Charlie WAKIM
Beau WEBSTER

Rookie Contract (6)

Liam DEVLIN
Jack WHITE – New from Tasmania
Jarrod FREEMAN – New from Tasmania
Aaron SUMMERS
Macalister WRIGHT
Lawrence NEIL-SMITH – New from NSW

have your say.

 

[KRIS 148]

NSW Blues contracted players for 2018-19:
Mitchell Starc (CA), Pat Cummins (CA), Josh Hazlewood (CA), Nathan Lyon (CA). Ryan Gibson, Moises Henriques, Dan Hughes, Nick Larkin, Kurtis Patterson, Jason Sangha, Param Uppal, Peter Nevill, Dan Fallin, Arjun Nair, Steve O’Keefe, Will Somerville, Sean Abbott, Harry Conway, Trent Copeland, Ben Dwarshius, Mickey Edwards, Liam Hatcher, Charlie Stobo, Henry Thornton. Rookies: Jack Edwards, Jordan Gauci, Ryan Hackney, Ryan Hadley, Baxter Holt, Chad Sammut. There is some serious promise in that rookie list. have your say.

 

[Spikey]

Also, just on these under 19s young blokes NSW has given full contracts to, it's a joke. These kids have not proven themselves at first grade level yet. The fact they were so rapidly endorsed at such young ages is not a sign of overwhelmingly prodigious talent as it is abject desperation.

The Jake Doran thing combined with Greg Chappell's influence makes this stuff inevitable doesn't it? I'm not a fan of it but clearly it's basically expected from CA that most of these guys walk into contracts and get a chance in the professional environment straight away (as opposed to say Jackson Bird doing the U19 stuff and then being in grade cricket for years and years). it's their excuse for getting rid of the Greg Chappell intentional XI, that it's not needed anymore because they're going straight into the set-up now. it's hog wash but hey.

 

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VIC Shield 2018/19 Squad: Full contracts: Scott Boland, Jackson Coleman, Xavier Crone, Travis Dean, Aaron Finch, Sebastian Gotch, Sam Grimwade, Peter Handscomb, Sam Harper, Marcus Harris, Mackenzie Harvey, Jon Holland, Glenn Maxwell, Tom O’Connell, James Pattinson, Will Pucovski, Jake Reed, Matthew Short, Peter Siddle, Will Sutherland, Chris Tremain, Eamonn Vines, Cameron White

Rookie contracts: Wes Agar, Zak Evans, Jonathan Merlo, Edward Newman, Mitch Perry, Patrick Rowe