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our bloody batting!
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our bloody batting!
Do not write the Vics off yet,a great effort by their bowlers to keep them in the game and perhaps we have the same problem as Australia when we mention batting.Was there for first 2 sessions today as mentioned in the other thread and really enjoyed the day.A bit in it for the bowlers I like but this looks like a real contest and hopefully our batting does not let us down 2nd innings but lets get the remaining 4 wickets at first especially Bancroft.I can’t remember a worse batting lineup. Handscomb and Harris have played tests but clearly on the decline. Harris not helped by so much time carrying drinks. Our best batsman is Maddo who comes back from long term injury but is a duck or hundred type player.
Unfortunately Puck is a lost cause and Kellaway is a solid support act but we’ve got no one to make runs at the other end. Matt Short makes more runs for Adelaide than Victoria.
Then there’s the no6 averaging 26 and the no 7 averaging 19…
Rogers and Sutherland need a kick up the arse.
Get your selections right. 5 bats and a long tail.
Should sack the coach just for that haha.but at least we finished half a game in front of SA…
Didn’t you have the Skipper as that player?Disappointing end. Finding a genuine all-rounder to bat top 6 has to be the priority.
I said that I understood why he got first crack. Obviously it failed and we need to move on.Didn’t you have the Skipper as that player?
We need to find quite a few bats - from what I’m seeing at lower levels they’re not there, doesn’t seem to be many anywhere.I said that I understood why he got first crack. Obviously it failed and we need to move on.
Got to feel for the Big Fella.
It is four bats, plus Short, Harper and Sutherland.Rogers and Sutherland need a kick up the arse.
Get your selections right. 5 bats and a long tail.
Crone feels like a good Grade cricketer but unlikely to step up. McClure looks much more promising IMO, and both are obviously behind Perry, Ferg and Chief.I'm curious as to what happens with your surplus of bowlers?
Boland and Siddle won't be around much longer. O'Neill, Perry, Elliot, Sutherland, Crone, Murphy, Warren. Young bowling brigade with huge upside. Lots to fit into ideally 4 spots. One of that lot likely to head interstate for more opportunities? I noticed Elliot wasn't selected for round 10.
Yep. Think Elliott is next in line for another crack provided he works his backside off before next season.Crone feels like a good Grade cricketer but unlikely to step up. McClure looks much more promising IMO, and both are obviously behind Perry, Ferg and Chief.
Elliott is a good player but hasn't found his feet in red ball cricket, struggles in the second XI at times too.
Nope. Harper the much better keeper and Philippe averages a measly 2 more over their careers.Should we have a look at Phillipe for the keeping spot?
This is the same across every state team across the country. Every team's pace bowling stocks are chock full of reliable blokes with depth ready and roaring to be called upon. Then there's the batting....even WA, seen as the pinnacle of domestic cricket of late have as brittle a batting lineup as anyone. At one point in the WA thread some posters were calling to drop players like Cartwright and Phillipe and just play hopeless kids.Our big issue is the batting.
Gee…I wonder why that is?This is the same across every state team across the country. Every team's pace bowling stocks are chock full of reliable blokes with depth ready and roaring to be called upon. Then there's the batting....even WA, seen as the pinnacle of domestic cricket of late have as brittle a batting lineup as anyone. At one point in the WA thread some posters were calling to drop players like Cartwright and Phillipe and just play hopeless kids.
PS I do come in peace, I visit other teams threads often as I keenly follow each state's progress and domestic cricket in general.