Sheffield Shield Final 2011 Tasmania V New South Wales

[Dogmatic]

3/133 George Bailey run out.

[Hazbeen]

Thought it should have its own thread being the final

Tasmania won the toss and elected to bowl.

PKF Tasmanian Tigers: Nick Kruger, Ed Cowan, Alex Doolan, George Bailey (c), Mark Cosgrove, James Faulkner, Luke Butterworth, Tom Triffitt (wk), Xavier Doherty, Ben Hilfenhaus, Adam Maher, Brendan Drew (12th)
RTA SpeedBlitz Blues: David Warner, Phil Hughes, Usman Khawaja, Phil Jaques, Simon Katich (c), Ben Rohrer, Peter Nevill (wk), Steve O'Keefe, Scott Coyte, Trent Copeland, Patrick Cummins, Nic Maddinson (12th)


After 3.2 overs, NSW 0/16

Hughes 12* (3 boundaries)
Warner 4* (1 boundary)

Is Stuey Clark injured or did the skipper get dropped for the young blokes?

[Brodlach]

Thought it should have its own thread being the final

Tasmania won the toss and elected to bowl.

PKF Tasmanian Tigers: Nick Kruger, Ed Cowan, Alex Doolan, George Bailey (c), Mark Cosgrove, James Faulkner, Luke Butterworth, Tom Triffitt (wk), Xavier Doherty, Ben Hilfenhaus, Adam Maher, Brendan Drew (12th)
RTA SpeedBlitz Blues: David Warner, Phil Hughes, Usman Khawaja, Phil Jaques, Simon Katich (c), Ben Rohrer, Peter Nevill (wk), Steve O'Keefe, Scott Coyte, Trent Copeland, Patrick Cummins, Nic Maddinson (12th)


After 3.2 overs, NSW 0/16

Hughes 12* (3 boundaries)
Warner 4* (1 boundary)

Is Stuey Clark injured or did the skipper get dropped for the young blokes?

Injured

[BoundaryRider84]

Tasmania 3/181 - the trophy is on its way to the Apple Isle.

[mighty hounds]

Tasmania 3/181 - the trophy is on its way to the Apple Isle.

11 to win. Party time in Tassie

[mighty hounds]

Cosgrove ends it with a 4

[RoosterMarty]

Cossie hits the winning runs!

[mighty hounds]

Cossie hits the winning runs!

Thats a fair sized shield!

[Baron Greenback]

You little beauty!
Maybe the selectors will look outside the NSW borders now and see some of the talent coming out of Tassie.
How Butterworth isn't getting selected is beyond me.

[Aerie]

Considering Tassie have produced the current Aussie captain, an opening Test bowler (Hilfy) and the next in line keeper (Paine) that is a bloody good effort. Well done Tassie and well done Cosgrove.

edit: plus they won the shield a few years ago as well. Again, well done Tassie (now surely they deserve an AFL side!!)

[Jim05]

You little beauty!
Maybe the selectors will look outside the NSW borders now and see some of the talent coming out of Tassie.
How Butterworth isn't getting selected is beyond me.

Agree about butterworth but disagree with rest of post.
NSW has alot more young talent and did a fine job this season considering they have players missing through international duty.
Well done to tassie but surely we have to play shield games when internationals are available.

[Baron Greenback]

You little beauty!
Maybe the selectors will look outside the NSW borders now and see some of the talent coming out of Tassie.
How Butterworth isn't getting selected is beyond me.

Agree about butterworth but disagree with rest of post.
NSW has alot more young talent and did a fine job this season considering they have players missing through international duty.
Well done to tassie but surely we have to play shield games when internationals are available.

I'm not saying NSW doesn't have talented players, it'd be nice if the selectors didn't ignore the good form of players from other states though.

[stampy]

cossie will be laughing all the way to the pie shop

[stampy]

would have given hughes motm not cowan

[Rik E Boy]

Congratulations Tassie the best team won. Didn't get to watch a lot of this game but I believe I witnessed the hour in which the Shield was decided. With wickets in hand after Tea the Blues did not score quickly enough in order to set the Tiges a decent total.

Katich's declaration, which probably had to be made was made without telling the team if you ask me. It appeared to be a very late decision to do so. NSW went out to field for those vital four overs with many of them not really wanting to be out there IMO. Batsmen who had made runs for the Blues in Hughes and Jaques only had to have about 1% of 'I've done enough' perhaps drop those crucial catches on Day four. Get both openers out last night and our young strike bowlers could have grown and arm and leg today. Instead they were deflated, paticularly Copeland last night.

So in one hour I watched us get bogged down, Tasmania field brilliantly to affect two runs and then watched us drop the Shield in the last four overs.

Well done Tasmania.

regards,

REB

[stampy]

have to agree with that, being 2/6 or whatever it was yesterday, they needed to consolidate but they, consolidated way too long in retrospect, in hindsight nsw wasted a full session (the last today) but it was always going to be a tough decision for katich, it was a very generous declaration, too generous and as a team they surely worked out how many overs they needed to get tas out a 2nd time and 94 overs was probably ok but the 203 wasnt, they ended up being about 70 or 80 short, full marks to tassie they just took their time when batting and it paid off.

in closing, what is that state doing that we are not?? it pisses me off no end to see them win their 2nd title in 5 years with about a quarter of our population whilst we are rooted (literally) to the bottom of the table

[Rik E Boy]

Better recruiting. Ed Cowan is a brilliant acquisition for the Tigers.
More experience. Tassie has a very experienced team and the young Blues minus Clarky and the World Cup boys were always going to struggle.

Either that or it could be that the water down there really does improve things.......

regards,

REB

[Baron Greenback]

would have given hughes motm not cowan

Would've been pretty close between the two. Both were deserving.
Faulkner's the only other one I might've picked (4/117 and 71). He bowled beautifully in the 1st innings.

[mal]

My Man Of The Match awards on a 3-2-1 basis

3 The New South Wales selectors
2 The Tasmanian Curator
1 Edward Cowan

[Lightning McQueen]

My Man Of The Match awards on a 3-2-1 basis

3 The New South Wales selectors
2 The Tasmanian Curator
1 Edward Cowan

Eh?