Australian Domestic Season 2019/20

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ALL matches in Australia to be cancelled from u10s to the shield

 

[Gnske]

Congratulations to Cameron Gannon for taking the most wickets this season. Clearly a class above as you'd expect of international quality bowlers. He has seasoned like a fine wine, aging with grace. I called it.

 

[stephen]

We should all be grateful we didn't have to endure them playing more. They're awful to watch

A silver lining to every cloud.

 

[SeamUp]

 

[stephen]

That young man Shaun Marsh did pretty well, I wonder if he should get a run in the test side.

 

[Gnske]

Seemed the most relevant place to put it.

Looks like Fox Sports has taken the opportunity to clean house with their journos. Thank god they kept Braith Anasta.

 

[Dan]

SoK dumped for next season, fmd.

NSW gonna NSW, I guess.

 

[Spikey]

i thought it was odd that they dropped him for the last couple of rounds as usually they played him with Lyon regardless of it's suitability

guess they're taking zampa...

 

[Gnske]

Great, now our spin attack overseas is going to consist of two bald men from here on out.

 

[morgieb]

Weird move. Guess he's not getting any younger but he's still Best XI especially when Lyon isn't there.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Yeah that's a strange call. None of the young spinners around the NSW setup look that impressive to me. Zappa returning is a possibility, my thoughts on his red ball bowling are well known by now, but he would be a gun pickup for 50 over cricket. FWIW I have been quite liking his work in limited overs as of late.

Time for the off season thread perhaps?

 

[Spikey]

It's particularly odd timing because the possible impacts of Covid-19 could actually means it make sense in the end (reduce amount of domestic contracts, etc) but we're not at that stage yet so it doesn't make sense

 

[Spikey]

SOK's departure is a bit sad, he's been around NSW cricket for so long. He started in 05 and I basically started really following NSW's results in like 03/04

And since everyone else in the world is doing all time sporting teams and what not. Here's my best performers for NSW since 03/04

Phil Jaques
Phil Hughes
Simon Katich
Steve Smith
Dom Thornely
Moises Henriques
Peter Nevill
Steve O'Keefe
Trent Copeland
Nathan Bracken
Doug Bollinger

Most of this team picks itself. Thornely might be a surprise, but he had like 5 or 6 straight seasons averaging 40 +, had one half season below 40 and then disappeared. No real bad seasons to drag him down. I went with Henriques over Usman/Patterson because I probably should include an all-rounder. Nevill/Haddin is a wash. Both performed strongly for many seasons. SOK, Copeland and Bollinger pick themselves but the 3rd seamer was harder to nail down. Hazelwood, Starc and Cummins don't play enough to really be considered (Hazlewood played the most, but he spent most of his early FC career taking 2 wickets an innings, and then he finally took a 5 wicket haul and he has barely played since). I thought it'd be Stuart Clark but he didn't play that much either, and then when he came back post 2009 and played a lot of the season, he was pretty average. Bracken ends up in front of Clark, Hazlewood and Cricketweb favourite Mark Cameron. It's a bit like Thornely, strong performer, then he disappeared to be on Dancing with the Stars and sue Cricket Australia. I could pick MacGill, but I've got Katich and Smith for leg spin....

I could also just pick the 2004-05 bowling attack. Check out those numbers. Insane.

A best XI of players to play to appear for NSW in that time frame is pretty obvious

Warner
Hughes
Katich
Smith
Clarke
Watson
Haddin
Cummins
Lyon
Hazlewood
McGrath

Technically I could squeeze the Waugh Twins, Slater, etc, in there. I suppose Clark vs Hazlewood could be a debate

 

[Magrat Garlick]

SOK's departure is a bit sad, he's been around NSW cricket for so long. He started in 05 and I basically started really following NSW's results in like 03/04

And since everyone else in the world is doing all time sporting teams and what not. Here's my best performers for NSW since 03/04

Phil Jaques
Phil Hughes
Simon Katich
Steve Smith
Dom Thornely
Moises Henriques
Peter Nevill
Steve O'Keefe
Trent Copeland
Nathan Bracken
Doug Bollinger

Most of this team picks itself. Thornely might be a surprise, but he had like 5 or 6 straight seasons averaging 40 +, had one half season below 40 and then disappeared. No real bad seasons to drag him down. I went with Henriques over Usman/Patterson because I probably should include an all-rounder. Nevill/Haddin is a wash. Both performed strongly for many seasons. SOK, Copeland and Bollinger pick themselves but the 3rd seamer was harder to nail down. Hazelwood, Starc and Cummins don't play enough to really be considered (Hazlewood played the most, but he spent most of his early FC career taking 2 wickets an innings, and then he finally took a 5 wicket haul and he has barely played since). I thought it'd be Stuart Clark but he didn't play that much either, and then when he came back post 2009 and played a lot of the season, he was pretty average. Bracken ends up in front of Clark, Hazlewood and Cricketweb favourite Mark Cameron. It's a bit like Thornely, strong performer, then he disappeared to be on Dancing with the Stars and sue Cricket Australia. I could pick MacGill, but I've got Katich and Smith for leg spin....

too few bowling options to be a true NSW team

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Impressive side

Your point on Thornely is a good one, I kinda forgot just how solid his Shield record actually was. I guess that was in part because a lot of my memories of him are from 50 over cricket where he was a bit shite, but his red ball record at the time was right up there.

Still think calling Moises an allrounder is a bit of a stretch these days, but he's batting as well as pretty much ever so no arguments there

 

[morgieb]

That second team would be genuinely competitive with certain countries ATG XI's. And it's only a 15 year period. WTF.

 

[stephen]

That second team would be genuinely competitive with certain countries ATG XI's. And it's only a 15 year period. WTF.

Having the world's second best batsman ever, two bowlers who average under 23 and a finger spinner with over 300 wickets will do that for you.

I'd honestly have Jaques instead of Hughes as opener though.

 

[Dan]

Rough on Grant Lambert tbh

 

[Shady Slim]

cool how because shane warne hates buddhism we now have no viable second spinner for tests tbh

 

[Gnske]

But he loves Queenslanders who chuck pies, so now our viable second spinner is Mitch Swepson.