***Official*** Australian Domestic Season 2005/06 thread

[aussie]

I'd be very confident in either one of Kaspa or Dizzy taking Lewis' place in the ODI side. I'd lean towards Gillespie with his better batting ability.

yea i'd back Dizzy too but it will be tough with Tait around..

 

[aussie]

I wish we got coverage of the Aussie Leagues here in the UK. We get Aussie Rugby League, NZ Rugby League and even Aussie rules football but no cricket

your not alone mate..

 

[Mister Wright]

Henriques, the captain of the U-19 side who has played a couple of ING games for NSW. The leading wicket taker in the WC, and had a pretty good time with the bat there too. Going into the last game I think he was averaging 50 with the bat and 9 with the ball.

Cooper, who was the leading batsman for Australia in the U-19 WC. Scored a century against South Africa, I think.

My point was, at least I've heard of the players selected. How could someone consider one player I think 99.9% of the Australian cricket following population has never heard of and another guy who's just started would be selected?

 

[marc71178]

Cosgrove would be heading over for another year playing league cricket in England, for sure.

Will he be able to stay off the pies this time?!

 

[chaminda_00]

My point was, at least I've heard of the players selected. How could someone consider one player I think 99.9% of the Australian cricket following population has never heard of and another guy who's just started would be selected?

How many of you guys have heard of Aaron Finch and Ben Edmondson is useless.

 

[steds]

Who & who?

Moises Henriques and Tom Cooper.

Unforetunately for Australia, the latter is neither alive, australian or good at cricket. Bloody legend, though. My favourite comedian ever.

I did a little bit of sunbathing. I was lying out there today and this little kid came up and poured something all over my back. He said "this'll make you brown." "What is it?" I said. He said "Gravy."



I got into the ring with Muhammad Ali once and I had him worried for a while. He thought he'd killed me!

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

My point was, at least I've heard of the players selected. How could someone consider one player I think 99.9% of the Australian cricket following population has never heard of and another guy who's just started would be selected?

The academy is for rising stars, not current stars. Henriques is clearly one of the biggest prospects in Australian cricket right now, and would therefore be a pretty obviously selection. Anyway, if you hadn't heard of Henriques before, surely you hadn't heard of Finch either, and he got selected.

 

[vic_orthdox]

The whole shake up of the academy is definently a good thing. Back to how it used to be - a longer program (although not as long as how it was when it was in Adelaide), and designed to produce Australian players, rather than feeding the states.

 

[howardj]

I'm glad of that. There seems to be this idea (eg from people like Ian Chappell) that once you reach FC level, you don't need specialist coaching. I think it would be of great benefit for guys like Callum Ferguson, Callum Bailey, Brett Dorey etc to receive some intensive, expert coaching. Both the Australian and English pace bowlers rate guys like Cooley highly - players of that stature were still being taught things by Cooley. So I don't think there's much question that such a program, targetted at players starting out in FC cricket (those who have 'made it', not just those who may) would be enormously beneficial to the future success of the Australian team.

 

[Haddin]

Its Cullen Bailey.

 

[andyc]

Moises Henriques and Tom Cooper.

Unforetunately for Australia, the latter is neither alive, australian or good at cricket. Bloody legend, though. My favourite comedian ever.

He died during a live TV show on April 15, 1984, London, England

 

[age_master]

The academy is for rising stars, not current stars. Henriques is clearly one of the biggest prospects in Australian cricket right now, and would therefore be a pretty obviously selection.

yeah im very surprised he didn't get invited. i probably would have picked 4 or 5 from the u/19 team to look to develop.

 

[Nate]

Word on the street is that Henriques did get invited, but refused .

 

[benchmark00]

I heard he wanted to spend more time with his wife and kids.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

I heard he wanted to spend some time with a special friend from Melbourne

 

[steds]

Yeah. Half the crowd kept on laughing. They thought it was part of his act.

 

[marc71178]

I heard he wanted to spend more time with his wife and kids.

He'll be on Come Dancing before you know it now then.

 

[steds]

Isn't it called "Dancing With The Stars" over there or summat?

 

[chooka_nick]

your not alone mate..

Funny, isn't it, how we in Australia dont even get our own domestic cricket on TV (I'm talking about Pura Cup, not ING).

 

[steds]

Funny, isn't it, how we in Australia dont even get our own domestic cricket on TV (I'm talking about Pura Cup, not ING).

What country does? We only get about 2 first class games a season, and we've got more cricket on tv than anyone.