Australian Domestic Off Season 2018

[brockley]

Can Abbott bat?
Seriously.
Best he stick 2 bowling medium pace pies.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Can Abbott bat?
Seriously.
Best he stick 2 bowling medium pace pies.

Mark Waugh will be most dissapointed at you.

 

[brockley]

Good thing Mark Waugh no longer still selector.
Now commentator.
Wonder how long the current selectors last.
Cummins and Hazelwood had a run today,still ruled out of UAE tho.

 

[TheJediBrah]

They made a team out of them.

Okay seriously, they’re still around. I’d put blokes like Neser, Valente, Wildermuth, Milenko, Abbott, etc. in that bag.

eeehh maybe. Valente and Milenko are great examples.

Neser and Abbott are bowlers. I don't think they're (limited) batting ability really affects their selection.

Wildermuth is looking more like a genuine All-Rounder than a bits-and-pieces like Kade Harvey. Might fit the role though.

 

[Burgey]

Scorecard from inter-squad NSW game on the go

#Bertmentum

 

[Burgey]

Here’s his old man in action for QLD in the 90’s, marginal who has the less sound action tbh. From memory, Scott was injury-prone so let’s hope it doesn’t run in the genes.

Scott started at Bankstown. Played against him at school. He bowled decent wheels when he was young.

 

[Spikey]

I'd argue there's more of them in the shield cricket nowadays due to every team picking 5 bowlers.

 

[Spikey]

#Bertmentum

Bertus was run-out while batting with Edwards. I fear this will make you despise the U19 guys even more

 

[Burgey]

Yeah I saw that. Unsurprising that no bowler was good enough to dismiss him though, even the Test ones.

#Bertmentum

 

[morgieb]

They made a team out of them.

Okay seriously, they’re still around. I’d put blokes like Neser, Valente, Wildermuth, Milenko, Abbott, etc. in that bag.

Although it's also worth noting a lot of the 90's/early 00's guys played heaps of Mercantile Mutual but **** all Shield/Pura Cup cricket. Apart from Valente the guys you said are regulars or thereabouts in their state's Shield XI.

 

[Top_Cat]

Sure, that's a reasonable distinction. Think they're probably looked upon like T20 specialists are now, their games geared to the shorter formats because they're not going to make it as FC cricketers.

 

[brockley]

George Edwards 50 contining his good over form in 50 over matches.Looking good for the first one dayer replace Nick Maddison.
Uppal picked up a couple of wkts,chance as the no 7 position.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Uppal >>> Nair

 

[vic_orthdox]

They made a team out of them.

Okay seriously, they’re still around. I’d put blokes like Neser, Valente, Wildermuth, Milenko, Abbott, etc. in that bag.

Yup, it's just that you only get a chance to watch them in action over the first month of the season now rather than across the full summer so you don't take as much notice.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Yup, it's just that you only get a chance to watch them in action over the first month of the season now rather than across the full summer so you don't take as much notice.

All those guys mentioned are just as regular Shield players as Matador Cup players though . . .

 

[vic_orthdox]

a. Busier international calendar means that some of those guys get more shield games than they would have twenty years ago.
b. More emphasis on speed and constant measurement of it means that the medium pacers of the past would probably have been overlooked for other guys nowadays (K Harvey, Bradstreet, Creevey for example).
c. Less OD games being played means that people like Jason Floros, Evan Gulbis, who fit that sort of profile don't end up with a record as outweighed (OD vs FC) as players in the past who played each team twice in the domestic OD season.

 

[TheJediBrah]

a. Busier international calendar means that some of those guys get more shield games than they would have twenty years ago.
b. More emphasis on speed and constant measurement of it means that the medium pacers of the past would probably have been overlooked for other guys nowadays (K Harvey, Bradstreet, Creevey for example).
c. Less OD games being played means that people like Jason Floros, Evan Gulbis, who fit that sort of profile don't end up with a record as outweighed (OD vs FC) as players in the past who played each team twice in the domestic OD season.

b. is almost certainly a big part of it

 

[brockley]

https://www.cricketnsw.com.au/news/...h-wales-blues-internal-trial-match/2018-08-22
Summary from NSW trial match.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

b. is almost certainly a big part of it

In general yes, but here in South Australia things have gone the other way. Looking back to the 90's the Redbacks had Jason Gillespie, Shane George and Mark Harrity, that was one seriously bloody quick attack. Yet these days SA hasn't produced a genuine tearaway since Sloon.

 

[brockley]

Australia A vs India A today,Shaw and Vihari called up for ENgland tour.