2023-24 Australian domestic cricket season

[Prince EWS]

Not quite sure what to make of this new stodgy Weatherald tbqh

Jackson Bird approves.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Jackson Bird approves.

Wonder of he's a chance of bowling 10 on the bounce here. Did it at KRO a couple of years back iirc

 

[Prince EWS]

Batting Bradley Hope at 5 seems extremely optimistic to me.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Batting Bradley Hope at 5 seems extremely optimistic to me.

But batting Bradley Optimism would be extremely hopeful

 

[TheJediBrah]

Good piece of camera work right there for those watching closely

(on the CA app)

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Honestly still not sure what type of cricketer Hope actually is. Seemingly in a batting allrounder role here, yet the couple of Shield games he has played for Tasmania he was batting 7 and bowling a decent amount of overs

 

[Prince EWS]

Honestly still not sure what type of cricketer Hope actually is. Seemingly in a batting allrounder role here, yet the couple of Shield games he has played for Tasmania he was batting 7 and bowling a decent amount of overs

He looks absolutely **** in this innings so far too.

 

[TheJediBrah]

So is there a 1 designated chucker per team rule or something

 

[TheJediBrah]

Honestly still not sure what type of cricketer Hope actually is. Seemingly in a batting allrounder role here, yet the couple of Shield games he has played for Tasmania he was batting 7 and bowling a decent amount of overs

He's clearly playing because they think he's the next best batsman. They don't need his bowling with the XI they've got. Says a lot about Tassie batting depth I guess. Though surely a Tim Ward would be preferable

 

[Prince EWS]

Commentators going on about how that jagged back but I think he just missed a straight one and got bowled middle peg lol.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Absolutely missed a straight one. Good ball angled in from height though

Just realised Tassie didn't bother replacing Wade with a keeper and have just given the gloves to Jewell? Didn't realise he kept. If you told me a year ago that Tasmania ran out of keepers I would have called you a liar

 

[Prince EWS]

He's clearly playing because they think he's the next best batsman. They don't need his bowling with the XI they've got. Says a lot about Tassie batting depth I guess. Though surely a Tim Ward would be preferable

They still have Doran and Wakim too. He looks way out of his depth tbh.

Will naturally ton up after copping such a bagging now though.

 

[TheJediBrah]

I remember Doran going full Kallis-mode in a 50-over game last year, played an all-time stinker basically single-handedly losing them the game

Might have even made a hundred

 

[Prince EWS]

Horrible dismissal

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Ahh forgot about Doran, little surprised he isn't in this side and keeping tbh. Especially considering he had a good 50 over season last year with the bat.

EDIT: Maybe good is overselling things a bit. Made runs but was still pretty slow while doing so

Not that I think his keeping is particularly good, but surely it would have been preferable to giving Jewell the gloves though

 

[GoodAreasShane]

I remember Doran going full Kallis-mode in a 50-over game last year, played an all-time stinker basically single-handedly losing them the game

Might have even made a hundred

I presume you are referring to the game v the Vics in Launceston. Had to double check, but yeah that was a sluggish innings

 

[TheJediBrah]

I presume you are referring to the game v the Vics in Launceston. Had to double check, but yeah that was a sluggish innings

Might have been, don't remember exactly. It was one of those innings where it doesn't end up looking bad on paper but in the context of the game, if you watched it live, it almost single-handedly lost the game for his team

 

[TheJediBrah]

Generally for modern 50-over cricket I would almost pick a hack that averages 10 but would at least do it quickly over Doran tbh (however in hindsight looking at this game, they could actually do with a Doran right now)

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Might have been, don't remember exactly. It was one of those innings where it doesn't end up looking bad on paper but in the context of the game, if you watched it live, it almost single-handedly lost the game for his team

Pretty sure it would most likely be that day. Made 104 off 131 that day before holing out with three and a half overs to go. Tasmania were chasing 266 and ended up 17 short

 

[GoodAreasShane]

One would think it's pretty much all up to Webster now to see if he can drag Tasmania to a not completely embarrassing total