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*Official* Australia A in New Zealand 2022/23

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SteveNZ said:
I live in a beach town and yeah, the water in March and April is definitely warmer than December. Or as you say, it feels so.

Only soft bastards don't swim all year round.
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The water temperature is never too cold to swim on the Gold Coast as it rarely gets below 20

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Gold Coast, Australia June average sea temperature. Marine / ocean climate data updated daily, surface sea temperatures and recorded in degrees centigrade and farenheit.
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Several degrees cooler in Sydney but even then it’s refreshing rather than an exposure risk & it’s only when you go further south that it’s too cold
 
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Aus A selectors clearly don't agree with my assessment of Philippe's wicketkeeping

Bowling attack looks pretty questionable too, outside of McAndrew and Kuhnemann (who iirc is only just back from injury). neither of the two New South Welsh quicks in that side should really be there imo
 
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GoodAreasShane said:
Aus A selectors clearly don't agree with my assessment of Philippe's wicketkeeping

Bowling attack looks pretty questionable too, outside of McAndrew and Kuhnemann (who iirc is only just back from injury). neither of the two New South Welsh quicks in that side should really be there imo
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Yeah that Aus-A bowling lineup doesn't exactly fill me with confidence, either. Dwarshius and perry aren't good enough to play unless their in as allrounders of sort and mcandrews already doing that role. Hatcher shouldn't be within ten lightyears of Aus-A.
 
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Dwarshuis, Perry and Hatcher playing for Australia A? lmao. Sounds like a state Future's league attack

and Kuhnemann's a chucker

McAndrew is a gun though
 
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Hatcher has decent pace, but still sprays it far too much to be a particularly good FC bowler. Certainly don't mind watching him but yeah, him being in the A side is just strange. Dwarshuis being there a bit odd too, feels like he has been around forever but only made his FC dayboo last season, can't say I was super impressed with his red ball work in the last Shield season.

Perry a little easier to understand on account he finished his Shield year strong, but he was pretty crap the first half of that season, seems to have a fair few more bad days than a ~133kph outswing bowler really should. Even when it comes to young Vic quicks, El Presidente Jr is definitely a better bowler than Perry, but considering he is just returning from back stress fractures the selectors may not have thought he was ready physically
 
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Australia doesn’t have that many bowlers to choose from between injuries, rest and white ball commitments but still bottom of the barrel stuff to be picking Dwarshuis etc

Could probably pick a comparable attack from Brisbane grade
 
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McAndrew is the kind of guy I wouldn't be embarrassed by seeing in Aussie colours

unlike beta punks like Travis Head
 
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jcas0167 said:
Yeah, wandered past the Backbencher earlier and was surprised to see it playing. A welcome change too after years of little NZ cricket there as they didn't have Spark.
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Tough to blame renowned CW moderator @Spark for this omission, imho
 
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GoodAreasShane said:
Hatcher has decent pace, but still sprays it far too much to be a particularly good FC bowler. Certainly don't mind watching him but yeah, him being in the A side is just strange. Dwarshuis being there a bit odd too, feels like he has been around forever but only made his FC dayboo last season, can't say I was super impressed with his red ball work in the last Shield season.

Perry a little easier to understand on account he finished his Shield year strong, but he was pretty crap the first half of that season, seems to have a fair few more bad days than a ~133kph outswing bowler really should. Even when it comes to young Vic quicks, El Presidente Jr is definitely a better bowler than Perry, but considering he is just returning from back stress fractures the selectors may not have thought he was ready physically
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I didn't think Perry had doe enough even with his good end to the season to deserve an A spot, especially considering how dire he was earlier.

You're right that the overall bowling attack is bleh. Hatcher always looks good but I don't think he deserves a spot even in a weak side. Fact is he's been around eight years and is not an FC standard bowler. To be honest I doubt McAndrew is never going to amount to anything other than a decent domestic cricketer either, except maybe in T20s.

I'm not a huge fan of our future bowling stocks overall. I think there's some decent players but only Morris stands out as a potential express bowler. We usually manage to make it work though.
 
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What is Hay's keeping like? He must be ahead of Chu in the selectors' minds because of some good early batting stats in his 1st class career.
 
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