Cricket Season Thread

[tiger_one]

Beth Mooney played the innings of her life to get our women from 76 for 7 to scoring a century and setting a target which became a comfortable win against Pakistan,Alana King also hit her maiden half century batting at 10.
We have such great depth in batting i wish i could say the same for the men's team.

WOW!
As champion @jadtiger said, This team!

For any Aussie fans who went to sleep when Australia were 7-76 overnight... a bit happened after that!

Mooney rescues Australia with remarkable ton to see off Pakistan | cricket.com.au

Australia looked to be on the ropes at 7-76 before Beth Mooney produced one of the best innings of...

www.cricket.com.au

 

[Buttface]

Sheffield Shield
Some big scores there so far!

Runs are going at a premium in the WA vs NSW match at the WACA, as First-Class debutant Will Salzmann top-scored for the Blues with 43, while Hilton Cartwright managed 34 for WA.

Ryan Hadley has the first handful for the season (5/38), while Ashton Agar has an average of 1.66, taking 3/5 from 5.5 overs.


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👍🏻
Good to see someone care about the poor old bowlers stats, seems to get forgotten in the quest for batting entertainment.

 

[Buttface]

Head and Cummins apparently declined a $10m deal to play franchise t20 cricket

What are people's thoughts on this?

T bloody 20. It’s like a sugar fix.
It’s a game where the real talent give suckers a chance at the big time.
The longer you play the game the more you weed out the suckers.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Ive also got a bad feeling about this summer...

Our batsman need to get it together

If we lose this series, expect a massive turnover afterwards. Half the team are in their mid to late 30’s.

 

[Buttface]

If we lose this series, expect a massive turnover afterwards. Half the team are in their mid to late 30’s.

That should happen both naturally and proactively. If Uzy, Smith, or Lyon has a good series you may get some retirements, same if they have bad ones. Hopefully the selection team is proactively working to blood the new players into the squad. The second part is my concern, last season a few of us wanted a new all rounder and opener before the season started. My picks were Marsh out for Webster, and then Smith back to 3 or 4, with Marnus dropped for any opener scoring in S/Shield, Konstas. The selectors did it after 3 tests and got praised for it. About 6 tests too late.
A year later and we still need an opener bcoz they botched Sam’s development, Webster is not young so we could do with a young one of those, plus now we gunna need a new unicorn to replace Pat. The only thing I think they got right was knee-jerk reactions.
I hope Starc is up for this season and him and Hazo, and Bolo, make chopsticks it of their stumps.