SA Footy

am Bays wrote:

whufc wrote:

Booney wrote:If both teams score 400 in the 1st dig and we get a result that's about the best of Test cricket for mine.

There is obviously no right or wrong but for me if that happens I would normally be pretty bored watching the first 3.5 days, I'm also not a huge fan of declarations being needed to force a result

Not a fan of good batting??

Depends good batting on batting paradises doesn't get me going lol, Khawajas innings on the other hand WOW!!!

Tasmania 2nd innings 9/387 declared.
Webster 122 not out
Tremain 4/97

Victoria 2nd innings 4/155, trial Tasmania by 205 runs.
Harris 52
Rainbird 2/27


Queensland 2nd innings 138
Mackin 6/33

WA 2nd innings 2/171, trial Queensland by 55.
Wells 85 not out
Voges 52 not out

WA 2nd innings 2/227
Wells 113 not out
Voges 78 not out
WA won by 8 wickets

Victoria 2nd innings 6/263, trial by 97
White 60
Christian 58 not out
Bird 3/64

Rain saves the Vics

Not sure about that Christian might have got them over the line

Brodlach wrote:Not sure about that Christian might have got them over the line

Was the final pair at the crease and Holland is a absolute bunny

whufc wrote:

am Bays wrote:

whufc wrote:

Booney wrote:If both teams score 400 in the 1st dig and we get a result that's about the best of Test cricket for mine.

There is obviously no right or wrong but for me if that happens I would normally be pretty bored watching the first 3.5 days, I'm also not a huge fan of declarations being needed to force a result

Not a fan of good batting??

Depends good batting on batting paradises doesn't get me going lol, Khawajas innings on the other hand WOW!!!

Granted about that but there's actually a degree of skill in grinding out a big score even when the conditions might be considered favourable.

As mentioned before the Adelaide pitch was known to do things on day four and five so watching blokes apply themselves and set up wins on day 1-3 was good cricket S Waugh 160 against Sri Lanka in 1995-96. Also when batsmen got complacent and didn't apply them selves - think Aust v india 2003-04 when after making 550 we played poor cricket on day 3 and four to leave the door open for Laxman and Dravid to chase down 360 IIRC. The old Adelaide pitch still relied on good cricketers playing good cricket to get good scores.

Agree the concentration levels and ability to increase your agression throughout the innings are a skill but just personally I have always preferred the back against the wall style innings, needless to say some of my favourite bats were Mark Taylor, Steve Waugh and Justin Langer.

With all the batting paradises we have seen over the last 10 years I feel a little bit of that prestige of hitting a hundred has been missing. For the first time in a long time I felt that was back with the two hundreds in the Adelaide test this summer

Matthew Wade leaving Victoria at end of season to head home to Tasmania

Jim05 wrote:Matthew Wade leaving Victoria at end of season to head home to Tasmania

Not a done deal yet but one you would think would get done with CA to have a casting vote. Tasmania are shite!

Jim05 wrote:Matthew Wade leaving Victoria at end of season to head home to Tasmania

So Maxwell won then?

Booney wrote:

Jim05 wrote:Matthew Wade leaving Victoria at end of season to head home to Tasmania

So Maxwell won then?

Definition of a true Cock fight

Jim05 wrote:Matthew Wade leaving Victoria at end of season to head home to Tasmania

Where's that leave Paine and Jake Doran?!

Zartan wrote:

Jim05 wrote:Matthew Wade leaving Victoria at end of season to head home to Tasmania

Where's that leave Paine and Jake Doran?!

Considering Paine is a way better gloveman than the aforementioned knobhead........
Wade might be playing district cricket when they finally give him the ar$e from the Aussie team.

Joe Mennie skull fracture and brain bleed following accident at Sydney Sixers training.

SOUTH Australian paceman Joe Mennie has been hospitalised again after scans revealed a skull fracture and minor brain bleed following a training accident on Monday.

Mennie was rushed to hospital on Monday after being hit in the head while batting in the nets during a Sydney Sixers training session.

He was released that same night but a Cricket Australia update on Wednesday morning confirmed the injury was more serious than first thought.

Injury believed to be stable and won't require surgery. Still very scary any sort of head injury like this and all the best to him going forward.

Interesting for some reason (which I don't mind) it doesn't say who was bowling at the time

Just read a different article and it said Mennie was hit by a straight drive from Michael Lumb

whufc wrote:Interesting for some reason (which I don't mind) it doesn't say who was bowling at the time

I thought i read elsewhere that he was actually bowling and had the ball hit back at him?

Zartan wrote:

whufc wrote:Interesting for some reason (which I don't mind) it doesn't say who was bowling at the time

I thought i read elsewhere that he was actually bowling and had the ball hit back at him?

Yeah just edited my post

I've read three different articles

One said it was from batting

One said it was from a Michael Lumb straight drive, no comment on whether he was batting or bowling

Another said it was from a Michael Lumb straight drive as Mennie followed through

Shield game starting on Wednesday, vs WA in Adelaide

Head and Zampa away with Aussie one day team. I guess Mennie will be out for a while with that skull fracture.

Predicted team:

Smith
Weatherald
Raphael
Cooper
Ferguson
Lehmann
Carey
Richardson (if fit?)
Sayers
Worrall (if fit?)
4th quick - Benton or Grant or Gregory or Valente or Agar

Ross misses out

Cant see them playing a spinner

Tony Clifton wrote:Shield game starting on Wednesday, vs WA in Adelaide

Head and Zampa away with Aussie one day team. I guess Mennie will be out for a while with that skull fracture.

Predicted team:

Smith
Weatherald
Raphael
Cooper
Ferguson
Lehmann
Carey
Richardson (if fit?)
Sayers
Worrall (if fit?)
4th quick - Benton or Grant or Gregory or Valente or Agar

Ross misses out

Cant see them playing a spinner

They'll probably get some spin overs out of Cooper and Lehmann if they need too?