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...

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[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.

 

[Betterdays22]

Probably time for our Ashes sides. Ive got:

Khawaja
Labuschagne
Green
Smith
Head
Webster
Carey
Starc
Lyon
Hazlewood
Boland

Ideally Green bats lower down the order but Webster has done enough to keep his spot. Konstas can't keep his spot unfortunately

 

[tiger_one]

Back on deck at the WACA!

 

[Stevec]

In our search for IN FORM batsmen 2 standouts are
Marnus Labuschagne 3 centuries this season
Mitch Marsh incredible form with an 87 and a 103 not out to carry the Aussie T20 I side on his back .
Still like Konstas although he has only shown glimpses eg 109 for Aust A vs
India A
Head was very scratchy in the T20 's but assume he comes good .Essential
Don't know much about current form of Kwajaja ,Smith and Webster
Looks like no Cummins that's a worry
Just some thoughts as nothing is more important than winning the Ashes and doing it in a canter like the last time the poms came here

 

[coivtny]

Famous last words, but something feels different about this England side. Genuine pace, good young batsmen, dangerous keeper/batsman and the best all rounder in the world. I think they are going to give this series a serious shake. Cummins injury only adds to that.

Sadly, I think they're certainties. Can't see us winning a Test. This is the best England side that's come out here for a long time.

 

[coivtny]

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

Agreed. There are some good batsmen coming through. They're not ready yet but will be in good shape for our next tour of England. Not so sure about our fast bowling stocks.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

Cummins will need 4-4.5 weeks of bowling before he can be considered for selection. So unless, he’s bowling in the next week or two, he won’t be in Perth

Cummins racing the clock but Aussies bullish on Ashes action | cricket.com.au

Coach admits they are pushing time to get their skipper up for the first Ashes Test in Perth

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[kiwitiger]

Cummins will need 4-4.5 weeks of bowling before he can be considered for selection. So unless, he’s bowling in the next week or two, he won’t be in Perth

Cummins racing the clock but Aussies bullish on Ashes action | cricket.com.au

Coach admits they are pushing time to get their skipper up for the first Ashes Test in Perth

www.cricket.com.au

Yeah. You just have to remember how under done he looked at Perth last year.
Took him until the end of the second test until he looked at getting into his work

 

[Buttface]

Cummins will need 4-4.5 weeks of bowling before he can be considered for selection. So unless, he’s bowling in the next week or two, he won’t be in Perth

Cummins racing the clock but Aussies bullish on Ashes action | cricket.com.au

Coach admits they are pushing time to get their skipper up for the first Ashes Test in Perth

www.cricket.com.au

But we all know he will get picked after about 4-4.5 minutes post recovery.
He’s a unicorn.

 

[Buttface]

Yeah. You just have to remember how under done he looked at Perth last year.
Took him until the end of the second test until he looked at getting into his work

Fast bowlers are like a long distance thoroughbred.

 

[tiger_one]

Rodney Tucker, this week became Australia’s most capped Test Umpire

A remarkable milestone for one of the game’s most respected officials, and a proud moment for NSW umpiring.

Tucker becomes Australia’s most capped Test Umpire | Cricket NSW

Sunday, October 12 marked a historic milestone for Australian cricket, with New South Wales’ Rodney...

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[Buttface]

Rodney Tucker, this week became Australia’s most capped Test Umpire

A remarkable milestone for one of the game’s most respected officials, and a proud moment for NSW umpiring.

Tucker becomes Australia’s most capped Test Umpire | Cricket NSW

Sunday, October 12 marked a historic milestone for Australian cricket, with New South Wales’ Rodney...

www.cricketnsw.com.au

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He was one of the players like Pistol who took up umpiring when there was a push to get ex players fast tracked to up the talent pool in the world umpiring game.

I did some umpiring and travelled around with uncle BF the ref when he did lower grades. It’s tops at the top but it’s thankless and sometimes unsafe at the bottom.

 

[tiger_one]

He was one of the players like Pistol who took up umpiring when there was a push to get ex players fast tracked to up the talent pool in the world umpiring game.

I did some umpiring and travelled around with uncle BF the ref when he did lower grades. It’s tops at the top but it’s thankless and sometimes unsafe at the bottom.

Back in the day, when I did my Umpires course, Darrell Hair was my mentor/coach.
Said much the same - but I really liked his attitude to integrity and fairness.
The "inequality" is real, but I never experienced at my level - except from some parents!

 

[Buttface]

Back in the day, when I did my Umpires course, Darrell Hair was my mentor/coach.
Said much the same - but I really liked his attitude to integrity and fairness.
The "inequality" is real, but I never experienced at my level - except from some parents!

I remember the last game I did and gave a bloke out LBW he wasn’t happy and let me know it. I spoke to the other umpire, he said he thought it was close, maybe going over. I still second guess that decision.

 

[tiger_one]

I remember the last game I did and gave a bloke out LBW he wasn’t happy and let me know it. I spoke to the other umpire, he said he thought it was close, maybe going over. I still second guess that decision.

You're a champion @Buttface - your reflections are all because you wanted to get things correct.
That's called a man of standards! 💥

 

[Buttface]

You're a champion @Buttface - your reflections are all because you wanted to get things correct.
That's called a man of standards! 💥

Yeah I guess so.

I’ve seen some terrible stuff at league lower grades.