2024–25 Australian Domestic Season

[Burgey]

Pathways has been the biggest single reason Aus cricket, while still plainly suiperior to everyone else, has come back to the field.

 

[ataraxia]

OMG Meredith hits a single from the last ball to deep cover and inexplicably takes off for a second which would have made no difference and gets run out! Genuinely one of the most brain dead pieces of cricket I've ever seen.

FMD some people are stupid. He's one of them.

What the **** lmao

 

[Burgey]

Mate you've got to watch it. In fact the whole last 10-15 minutes is mental. As others noted, I think they were six down needing seven off nine with Owen doing it on his doodah. Just an insane capitulation.

 

[Starfighter]

It says a fair bit about NSW that Edwards undeservedly played purely as a batsman for quite a while when he's a far better bowler.

This year: 235 runs @35.83, best 88 and 20 wickets at 21.6, best 5/41
Last year: 373 runs at 33.9, best 99 and 22 wickets at 24.68, best 6/36

I'm genuinely surprised to see he's averaged that much, I don't have any memories of him scoring runs at all.

 

[Starfighter]

Spin watch at the halfway point:

Kuhnemann: 18 @38.00
Swepson 17 @42.21
Murphy: 14 @31.07
Rocchiccioli: 14 @44.14
Pope: 12 @30.58
Lyon: 10 @28.00
Sangha: 8 @53.75
Manenti: 8 @61.50
Warren: 5 @29.00
Agar: 4 @15.00
Zampa: 4 @35.00
Green: 4 @65.75
Renshaw: 2 @75.50
McSweeney: 1 @29.00
Radhakrishnan: 1 @48.00
McKenzie: 1 @111.00

Does not make for good reading that lot.

 

[TheJediBrah]

OMG Meredith hits a single from the last ball to deep cover and inexplicably takes off for a second which would have made no difference and gets run out! Genuinely one of the most brain dead pieces of cricket I've ever seen.

FMD some people are stupid. He's one of them.

Needs an MRI, something not right there

 

[TheJediBrah]

Spin watch at the halfway point:

Kuhnemann: 18 @38.00
Swepson 17 @42.21
Murphy: 14 @31.07
Rocchiccioli: 14 @44.14
Pope: 12 @30.58
Lyon: 10 @28.00
Sangha: 8 @53.75
Manenti: 8 @61.50
Warren: 5 @29.00
Agar: 4 @15.00
Zampa: 4 @35.00
Green: 4 @65.75
Renshaw: 2 @75.50
McSweeney: 1 @29.00
Radhakrishnan: 1 @48.00
McKenzie: 1 @111.00

Does not make for good reading that lot.

Pretty standard for Shield spin tbh. Averaging 40 in the Shield was normal for most of the last decade and a half IIRC. It's what made Steve O'Keeffe stand out so much

 

[Gnske]

When you got run-outs like Riley Meredith in them, you can't lose

 

[honestbharani]

When you got run-outs like Riley Meredith in them, you can't lose

Did he seriously think it was a white ball game? Just saw that last ball. Unbelievable.

An underrated side effect of the proliferation of T20 leagues, I am sure.

 

[Burgey]

Did he seriously think it was a white ball game? Just saw that last ball. Unbelievable.

An underrated side effect of the proliferation of T20 leagues, I am sure.

****ing mental wasn't it?

Honestly when the camera panned back I was just expecting him to be at the bowler's end shaking hands. What a monumnetal **** up

 

[Starfighter]

Pretty standard for Shield spin tbh. Averaging 40 in the Shield was normal for most of the last decade and a half IIRC. It's what made Steve O'Keeffe stand out so much

Thing is all the spinners in the period you mention (except O'Keefe) were crap, though Holland managed to upgrade to 'decent' by the end of his career. I think some of the current lot look significantly more capable, so I find it concerning they're doing so badly. Of the matches I've watched parts of, very few of them have had pitches with anything to offer, and Rocchiccioli's rhythm looks bad.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Thing is all the spinners in the period you mention (except O'Keefe) were crap

I'm not convinced it was just that. Conditions were genuinely awful for spin bowling outside every other Sydney game. Made the spinners look even worse than they were.

 

[Starfighter]

I'm not convinced it was just that. Conditions were genuinely awful for spin bowling outside every other Sydney game. Made the spinners look even worse than they were.

And this was not exactly a good thing. So why are they determined to repeat that mistake?

 

[TimAngas]

This year: 235 runs @35.83, best 88 and 20 wickets at 21.6, best 5/41
Last year: 373 runs at 33.9, best 99 and 22 wickets at 24.68, best 6/36

I'm genuinely surprised to see he's averaged that much, I don't have any memories of him scoring runs at all.

The only time I remember him scoring runs was when he played a pretty domineering innings in an OD at North Sydney Oval.

 

[social]

I maintain that Lloyd Pope is POTENTIALLY the best spinner in Australia so nice to see him doing okay this season

Then again, I don’t think finger spinners should be categorised as bowlers so it’s a shallow pool

 

[Gnske]

Neither should Jasprit Bumrah yet look at him glow