SA vs NSW Big Bash 20/20

[RustyCage]

Hauritz in Australia:
Matches: 9
Wickets: 38
Average: 29.65

in 2010 in Aust:
Matches: 2
Wickets: 12
Average: 21.33

2010 overseas:
In NZ:
Matches: 2
Wickets: 4
Average: 65.75

In India:
Matches: 2
Wickets: 6
Average: 65.00

[Phantom Gossiper]

2 tests in 2010?? or is that counting the whole series 09/10?

I thought they only played the 1 test in 2010 that he played in - SCG NY test.

[RustyCage]

O'Keefe v Hauritz v Beer v Smith 2010

First Class
O'Keefe 2 games, 12 wickets, ave 16.93, sr 33.30
Hauritz 6 games, 19 wickets, ave 26.79, sr 56.63
Beer, 7 Games, 16 wickets, ave 44.93, sr 74.8
Smith, 12 Games, 12 wickets, ave 41.75, sr 63.7

List A
O'Keefe 7 games, 2 wickets, ave 119.00, sr 120.00, econ 5.95
Hauritz 6 games, 8 wickets, ave 34.00, sr 38.00, econ 5.36
Beer, 1 Game, 1 wicket, ave 50.00, sr 36.00, econ 8.33
Smith, 5 Games, 1 wicket, ave 30.00, sr 42.00, econ 4.28

[RustyCage]

2 tests in 2010?? or is that counting the whole series 09/10?

I thought they only played the 1 test in 2010 that he played in - SCG NY test.

2 against Pakistan, Sydney and Hobart

[Mad Mat]

Well done to the boys on the Hill tonight, first three wickets all coincided with them getting a Mexican wave going. Did O'Keefe turn any tonight all I saw was batsmen playing for the turn and getting bowled/missing straight ones.

'Ritz the best slow bowler I saw tonight

The Mexican wave. Didn't that die out 10 years ago? To the bogans on the hill thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Some bewildering decisions by Klinger/Berry (whoever calls the shots) last night. Pollard only bowling 3 overs? He had the best figures of all the SA bowlers and Klinger gives the ball to Christian in the last over. Pollard batting at 7 and below Manou?????? Should be at 5 or 6, not 7. Highlight of the night was Moises's over that went for 29.

Noticed on the way into the ground that Pollard and Rashid were only getting to the gates at the Bradman Stand less than an hour before the start. On entering the ground I noticed that their team mates and the NSW players were already out on the ground warming up. Luckily Pollard performed. Didn't see much to get excited about with Rashid.

[Lightning McQueen]

Well done to the boys on the Hill tonight, first three wickets all coincided with them getting a Mexican wave going. Did O'Keefe turn any tonight all I saw was batsmen playing for the turn and getting bowled/missing straight ones.

'Ritz the best slow bowler I saw tonight

The Mexican wave. Didn't that die out 10 years ago? To the bogans on the hill thanks for the trip down memory lane.

Some bewildering decisions by Klinger/Berry (whoever calls the shots) last night. Pollard only bowling 3 overs? He had the best figures of all the SA bowlers and Klinger gives the ball to Christian in the last over. Pollard batting at 7 and below Manou?????? Should be at 5 or 6, not 7. Highlight of the night was Moises's over that went for 29.

Noticed on the way into the ground that Pollard and Rashid were only getting to the gates at the Bradman Stand less than an hour before the start. On entering the ground I noticed that their team mates and the NSW players were already out on the ground warming up. Luckily Pollard performed. Didn't see much to get excited about with Rashid.

Pollard got caught in traffic.

[dark & stormy]

rashid , at the moment money wasted. for a high profile player (well sort of) should be doing something, bowled half trackers.
thank god for pollard is all we can say..... oh and tait should take a page out of lee,s book and see how you should be bowling.
no point bowling 150plus if it just crap...........imo

[Lightning McQueen]

rashid , at the moment money wasted. for a high profile player (well sort of) should be doing something, bowled half trackers.
thank god for pollard is all we can say..... oh and tait should take a page out of lee,s book and see how you should be bowling.
no point bowling 150plus if it just crap...........imo

I don't think he would've had a high price tag, I think he is like a woodstock bourbon, does the job, fills the void at a reasonable price, he's no Jack Daniels. I reckon we were a bit stumped on who was available at the time and settled for the cheaper option that we could get for the whole tournament.
As for Tait, first game back, he was always going to be rusty, I think he has a psychological problem bowling to Warner, why wouldn't you open with him? His meare presence out there I think plays on Tait's mind, I'd say they were hoping to get rid of Warner early then unleash "The Wild Thing".

[dark & stormy]

rashid , at the moment money wasted. for a high profile player (well sort of) should be doing something, bowled half trackers.
thank god for pollard is all we can say..... oh and tait should take a page out of lee,s book and see how you should be bowling.
no point bowling 150plus if it just crap...........imo

I don't think he would've had a high price tag, I think he is like a woodstock bourbon, does the job, fills the void at a reasonable price, he's no Jack Daniels. I reckon we were a bit stumped on who was available at the time and settled for the cheaper option that we could get for the whole tournament.
As for Tait, first game back, he was always going to be rusty, I think he has a psychological problem bowling to Warner, why wouldn't you open with him? His meare presence out there I think plays on Tait's mind, I'd say they were hoping to get rid of Warner early then unleash "The Wild Thing".

I would agree with that tait doesnt like bowling to warner , but then again who would . that man is a freak..... we shall see on saturday if tait is good enough still. heres hoping.

[MatteeG]

I could find an article saying that Kevin Higgins, Steven trigg and Rick davies are good coaches.

Liar...

[Lightning McQueen]

I don't think he would've had a high price tag, I think he is like a woodstock bourbon, does the job, fills the void at a reasonable price, he's no Jack Daniels. I reckon we were a bit stumped on who was available at the time and settled for the cheaper option that we could get for the whole tournament.
As for Tait, first game back, he was always going to be rusty, I think he has a psychological problem bowling to Warner, why wouldn't you open with him? His meare presence out there I think plays on Tait's mind, I'd say they were hoping to get rid of Warner early then unleash "The Wild Thing".

I would agree with that tait doesnt like bowling to warner , but then again who would . that man is a freak..... we shall see on saturday if tait is good enough still. heres hoping.

He certainly loves playing against SA and has Tait's measure, he loves to ball coming on quickly.

[Drop Bear]

I don't think he would've had a high price tag, I think he is like a woodstock bourbon, does the job, fills the void at a reasonable price, he's no Jack Daniels. I reckon we were a bit stumped on who was available at the time and settled for the cheaper option that we could get for the whole tournament.
As for Tait, first game back, he was always going to be rusty, I think he has a psychological problem bowling to Warner, why wouldn't you open with him? His meare presence out there I think plays on Tait's mind, I'd say they were hoping to get rid of Warner early then unleash "The Wild Thing".

I would agree with that tait doesnt like bowling to warner , but then again who would . that man is a freak..... we shall see on saturday if tait is good enough still. heres hoping.

He certainly loves playing against SA and has Tait's measure, he loves to ball coming on quickly.

Just don't put him in the test team

[Jim05]

I don't think he would've had a high price tag, I think he is like a woodstock bourbon, does the job, fills the void at a reasonable price, he's no Jack Daniels. I reckon we were a bit stumped on who was available at the time and settled for the cheaper option that we could get for the whole tournament.
As for Tait, first game back, he was always going to be rusty, I think he has a psychological problem bowling to Warner, why wouldn't you open with him? His meare presence out there I think plays on Tait's mind, I'd say they were hoping to get rid of Warner early then unleash "The Wild Thing".

I would agree with that tait doesnt like bowling to warner , but then again who would . that man is a freak..... we shall see on saturday if tait is good enough still. heres hoping.

He certainly loves playing against SA and has Tait's measure, he loves to ball coming on quickly.

Maybehe loves playing at ao. Sign him up if they dont want him. He is not part of their ss plans and he has test aspirations

[Lightning McQueen]

I don't think he would've had a high price tag, I think he is like a woodstock bourbon, does the job, fills the void at a reasonable price, he's no Jack Daniels. I reckon we were a bit stumped on who was available at the time and settled for the cheaper option that we could get for the whole tournament.
As for Tait, first game back, he was always going to be rusty, I think he has a psychological problem bowling to Warner, why wouldn't you open with him? His meare presence out there I think plays on Tait's mind, I'd say they were hoping to get rid of Warner early then unleash "The Wild Thing".

I would agree with that tait doesnt like bowling to warner , but then again who would . that man is a freak..... we shall see on saturday if tait is good enough still. heres hoping.

He certainly loves playing against SA and has Tait's measure, he loves to ball coming on quickly.

Maybehe loves playing at ao. Sign him up if they dont want him. He is not part of their ss plans and he has test aspirations

He belted Taity for four 6's in one over at ANZ stadium aswell.

[smithy]

I could find an article saying that Kevin Higgins, Steven trigg and Rick davies are good coaches.

Liar...

[MadMax]

I don't think he would've had a high price tag, I think he is like a woodstock bourbon, does the job, fills the void at a reasonable price, he's no Jack Daniels. I reckon we were a bit stumped on who was available at the time and settled for the cheaper option that we could get for the whole tournament.
As for Tait, first game back, he was always going to be rusty, I think he has a psychological problem bowling to Warner, why wouldn't you open with him? His meare presence out there I think plays on Tait's mind, I'd say they were hoping to get rid of Warner early then unleash "The Wild Thing".

I would agree with that tait doesnt like bowling to warner , but then again who would . that man is a freak..... we shall see on saturday if tait is good enough still. heres hoping.

He certainly loves playing against SA and has Tait's measure, he loves to ball coming on quickly.

I thought it may have been a good tactic to start with a slower bowler against Warner. He obviously prefers the ball coming onto the bat, when even a shot not middled can sail to the rope with some ease. I don't think it is Tait saying he doesn't wanna bowl at Warner. As Warner said in an ABC interview when asked about Shaun, "The quicker they come down the quicker they go to the boundary".

Rashid was dissappointing, as was Christians missed run out! Quite embarassing really.. missing from about a foot out by over a foot lol.
"Garry" Lyon, the newbie into the T20 team took a cracker of a catch off his own bowling, and could obviously turn a ball. Apparently he is part of the groundstaff at Adel Oval and got the call up "Pomersbach" style a few hours before the game. Was on a hat trick and looked decent.
Was a fair effort to keep NSW to only 168, and looked solid as Harris smashed Doug the Rug around in the first over... but O'Keefe was the difference. Pollard continues to prove he could be one of the worlds best T20 players while Moses... well , he was bowling charitably!

[CoverKing]

Wasn't pomersbach style, he was selected because of Berry noticing him before hand.

[Bulls forever]

I certainly hope that the audition by Berry was carefully watched by the people controlling cricket in SA. Got it wrong so many ways last night and the result speaks for itself.

Tait - am I wrong or did this bloke win us two or three games in 20/20 last year by demolishing the top order of the Vics & Tas. Anyone bowling at 150 and swinging it heaps is dangerous. Haven't we all seen him swing it for 2 overs, then bowl gun barrel. WTF were you thinking. So what if he goes for 20, if he takes two early, then the games changes, especially when NSW went in with shallow batting line up.

The wicket - play 1 quick, two seamers who bowl mainly slower balls and 3 spinners and order a dry dusty track. Very defensive against the speed attack of NSW, obviously ordered to take those quicks out of the game. We forgot about probably the two best spinners in Aus and how much impact they would have on the game.

Memo Damien Huff - Les never prepared a track for the locals, he just prepared the best cricket wicket, don't let those people in there compromise your integrity by preparing what they think is best. That wicket could have been at Prospect or Perti.

Batting line up - Pollard 7, Christian 3, Blizzard 5.

Rashid - lets wait until the 13th over when they are starting to push the runs with wickets in the shed before we bring him on. He was obviously going to bowl out at one end, but those plans went out the door after his first over. FFS bring him on early, between overs 6 and 10, let him settle, we have all seen him bowl well in 1day internationals against the Aus, but give the poor bloke a chance. Just as a matter of interest, Mike Gatting, who controls the Poms development players was out here a couple of weeks before X-Mas. Pretty sure that Rashid would have been on the agenda when he spoke with Cox, hence we drag him from 3 feet of snow to play in our 20/20. No issues with this, but on hiding to nothing. I think he will do alright when he settles.

Lyon selection - obviously on the back of the truckloads of wickets he has taken in Grade Cricket, plus he is not SA player, so of course he gets selected before Frick, Cullen, Bailey. Absolute disgrace Cox - if we are getting flogged, at least let us get flogged by using local players. Pretty sure you can discard Tait, Manou and Harris and get 3 recruits into the side.

Now the positives - sat in the Ian, Greg and Trevor stand instead of the members. Mainly because the wicket was short on that side and guarenteed action that side. How good do the new stands look - absolutely fantastic, pity the members didn't support the game, or did they also venture into the eastern side because of wicket location. Crowd fantastic, atmosphere great, Pollard - you would pay the money just to watch that display. NSW more professional and played big moments better.

[Phantom Gossiper]

I dont understand why SA chose to get a spinner as an import player and really a spinner of no real statue in world cricket none the less, considering they play on the Adel oval that really doesnt offer much for a spinner and having not the worst pace attack, why wouldnt they look to bolster the batting stocks a little more?

Pollard miles to low last night, Christian miles to high, Manou well WTF?! Opening with a spinner

Does the coaching staff actually know what is going on or what?!?! Why is it every person in SA knows how the line up should look and where we need to improve but the coaching staff dont?!

[Gozu]

Couldn't believe Tait wasn't one of the opening two bowlers. Berry out smarting himself or maybe he knows something we don't?

I guess we'll see what happens against the Vics on Saturday night.