Australian Domestic Season 2017/18

[NUFAN]

470 long days since he graced the Test arena.

 

[Starfighter]

Feels like eons since Siddle last played Test cricket, but it was in fact less than 18 months ago.

Considering how nondescript his performances were I'm not surprised it feels like ages.

 

[Top_Cat]

Just realised Winter will probably miss the Shield game in Adelaide and rest of the season with Richardson, Mennie, Worrall and Zampa all available, notwithstanding the best Shield bowler of the past few years currently touring South Africa. Rough gig, this cricket.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Just realised Winter will probably miss the Shield game in Adelaide and rest of the season with Richardson, Mennie, Worrall and Zampa all available, notwithstanding the best Shield bowler of the past few years currently touring South Africa. Rough gig, this cricket.

Winter will keep his spot ahead of Richardson surely

 

[stephen]

He'd be incredibly unlucky to have taken 15 wickets in two matches and be dropped on the back of a man of the match performance.

 

[Spikey]

Lol if he gets dropped for any of them except maybe Mennie

 

[GoodAreasShane]

After a start like that Winter has to play, personally I would go in with an all seam attack (Worrall, Winter, Richo and Mennie) but that's mostly because I don't especially rate Zampa as a red ball bowler.

 

[Starfighter]

but that's mostly because I don't especially rate Zampa as a red ball bowler.

Don't be too hard on the fella. He's got his average comfortably below 50 now.

 

[NUFAN]

I think there are a couple of options..

Drop Dalton, put in a makeshift opener, probably Head and play 4 quicks with Zampa

or

Go 6 batsman, 4 quicks and get spin out of Head and Cooper.

I dont mind the first option tbh. weatherald head ferguson lehmann cooper carey mennie is a good top 7.

 

[Top_Cat]

Pls no to Mennie above 8. Yeah he looks correct and can hold a bat but considering their batting nearly lost them the last match against a very pedestrian NSW attack last match, why stack the bowling?

 

[Prince EWS]

After a start like that Winter has to play, personally I would go in with an all seam attack (Worrall, Winter, Richo and Mennie) but that's mostly because I don't especially rate Zampa as a red ball bowler.

Yeah I think this is a serious option depending on what they make of the pitch, especially given Head will be back for the game as well.

 

[Top_Cat]

It's hard to pick, for mine. The SACA selectors have played 4 quicks this year at home and away, presumably they feel they can get away with it because when it was Worrall/Sayers/Mennie/whoever, you have a good mix of seam and swing and Winter, as a swing bowler, fits. They did keep picking Zampa early on and they seem to have stumbled on a year where he's taking wickets for a change so you'd think he's a strong chance to play.

We'll see whether they plump for 4 quicks or drop one for Zampa. Perhaps depends on whether they see Winter's great start as a real breakthrough or he got lucky against a couple of weak line-ups. Me, I'd pick him again.

 

[Midwinter]

the seventh round of the shield is done and the potential finalists are still unknown. There is only 8 points separating the top from the bottom teams and with 3 rounds to go a good run by any team could see them in final.
In the last two rounds the bottom team has won their games to get of the toe of the table, this time it was the Croweaters.

Top of the table Queensland could only get a draw against the Vics even with Matt Renshaw making 170 and Heazlett 124, Young Pucovski did even better making 188. Swepson got a good bowl 49 overs for 3/151. Renshaw got a duck in the second dig but Labuschagne scored a hundred not out and Siddle got his best figures for the season 3/21.
Despite the draw the bananabenders stay top of the table while the Vics slipped back to last again.

The crow eaters rolled the NSW with a solid batting performance in the fourth innings but the star of the game was SA's Winter with 10 wickets in the game. With SA's triumvirate pace attack, Sayers, Worrall and Mennie struggling this year Winter has given the team hope of still making the final. Cooper made a 105no while Andrews got them the first innings lead with a 50. Weateherald also had a solid game. NSW had only Hughes and Patterson who were top scorers in both innings, Cowan is not repeating last years phenomenal second half of the season and Neville not making runs left them well short. Larkin also is also struggling at this level.

SA got themselves off the bottom of the ladder while NSW has lost two in a row and have slid to third.

Meanwhile in Hobart the Appleaters beat WA in 3 days. with Mattie Wade making his highest score of the season, 139no. Some solid lower order batting lead by Milenko with 78 enabled them to declare 9/431. The Sandgropers bowling attack, missing players through injury and national selection was the most inexperienced they have fielded for years.
All out for 67 with Turner's 19 being the highest score Rogers had the figures for Tassie with 4/9 while the the second dig Turner 81 had some support from Philippe with 74. At 1/129 they might have had a chance but Rogers again had the figures 3/46.

This now has Tassie second on table and WA second last.

But with only 8 points between all the teams table positions do not mean much.

Batting

Qld Labuschagne 517, Burns 514
Tas Doran 444, Doolan 428
NSW Hughes 495, Patterson 428
SA Weatherald 612, Ferguson 591
WA Bancroft 493, MMarsh 427
Vic Maxwell 590, Harris 467

Weatherald the leading runs scorer, Bailey is not Tassie's leading run scorer for the first time for a long time, Doran having his best year for a while.
For NSW Cowan and Smith are tied for 3rd place with 268 runs indicating their batting problems.

It's had to see anyone making a 1000 runs for the season.

Bowling
Qld Feldman 28, Neser 21
Tas Bird 26, Rainbird 26 (Rogers 25)
NSW Copeland 20,Starc 17
SA Mennie 23,Worrall 19
WA Mackin 21,Kelly 19
Vic Boland 30, Tremain 29

Boland leading with 30 Tremain being his consistent self with 29

Tassie has 4 bowlers in the top 7, NSW has Starc as second best having only played 2 games and Lyon as 3rd best having played 4.
Feldman and Neser doing a sterling job for the bananbenders.

Spinners
Swepson 20@39, Fawad 18@45, Zampa 14@44, Lyon 13 @22, Holland 12 @28

Swepson is 12th overall but the top three have been expensive, unusually so for Fawad. In contrast to last season the spinners aren't among teh leading wicket takers.

Next round starts Saturday
Tas v NSW
WA vs Vic
SA v Qld

who knows who will win !

 

[vic_orthdox]

Fawad bowling at the 'G probably not been doing much for his record.

 

[Jarquis]

G’wan Marnus

 

[TheJediBrah]

Victoria having the 2 leading wicket takers yet still unable to get a result at home is an interesting stat

 

[stephen]

Fit Aus bowling stocks looking weak outside the test squad right now. Ditto the batting (though it's a bit better). Holland the clear back up for Lyon but outside the tourists the form quick is Feldman.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Feldman is too old and too slow imo, handy domestic seamer but that is about it. I have a concerning feeling the selectors are looking at him for Test cricket. It is worrying to see someone like him running through sides.

 

[stephen]

Feldman is too old and too slow imo, handy domestic seamer but that is about it. I have a concerning feeling the selectors are looking at him for Test cricket. It is worrying to see someone like him running through sides.

He's in the same class as Tremain - excellent servants for their state but I really hope our bowling stocks don't deplete to the point that they are picked for tests.

Whatever happened to McDermott Jr? He was a regular for QLD a couple of years back and is nowhere to be seen now.

 

[quincywagstaff]

Whatever happened to McDermott Jr? He was a regular for QLD a couple of years back and is nowhere to be seen now.

Pretty sure he quit a cricket career to go into real estate development.