Australian Domestic Season 2016/2017

[The Bedge]

The Shield Final is unecessary. Even more so now it needs to be played on some suburban cricket ground or in the middle of nowhere. Just award the Shield to 1st place after the regular season.

Agreed! Given the season is all setup to entice results and aggressive cricket, there really is no need for a final is there? Best side finishes top, wins.

[The Bedge]

Will VIC bat again, or enforce the follow on?

Surely bat again.....go the slog, heck reverse the order to snuff SA right out of it!

Think you're right, probably bat again and look to bat out the remainder of the match.

[Lightning McQueen]

Will VIC bat again, or enforce the follow on?

They'll bat again and make us cry like we are the younger brother.

[am Bays]

The Shield Final is unecessary. Even more so now it needs to be played on some suburban cricket ground or in the middle of nowhere. Just award the Shield to 1st place after the regular season.

Agreed! Given the season is all setup to entice results and aggressive cricket, there really is no need for a final is there? Best side finishes top, wins.

Not in the first one and not in the last completed one....

[The Bedge]

Holland with 6fa so far, prob man of the match again you'd think.

[RustyCage]

All out for 287. Vic lead by 200. They'll now bat for as long as they possibly can. It's a slow death, there can only be one result, Vics win the Shield, but there's two days to drag it out. Death by 1000 cuts

[stampy]

2/35

[wristwatcher]

Remember where you heard it first!!!!

We are going to knock them over for 200 and chase down 400 and be crowned Shield Champions.

Redbacks....I believe

Or


They set us 600 and bowl us out for 90

[locky801]

Remember where you heard it first!!!!

We are going to knock them over for 200 and chase down 400 and be crowned Shield Champions.

Redbacks....I believe

Or


They set us 600 and bowl us out for 90

We are in with a very silly chance but cant chase more than 300

[Aerie]

If they can bowl Vics out any time prior to tea it at least gives the possibility of a miracle. All the batsman are due a score!

[wristwatcher]

The flame no make that barely illuminate ember will be snuffed out by lunch if we don't completely own this first session but bushfires can be started by a cigarette and stranger things have happened.

400 in 4 sessions is far from impossible and that's what we have to be aiming at. What do we need for this to happen...
- 1 bowler to bowl a ripper of spell and claim 3 or 4 (Chad seems the most likely)
- Support from the rest of the attack
- The Vics to just get ye ole sphincter tightening

- A big opening partnership (we are surely due)
- An opener to go on and get a big hungy
- A middle order or Captains ton to support
- To get to 300 no more than 4 down

SA cricket fans surely have earned that one epic defining performance that undoes all the heartache and pain.

Todays the day, todays the day. Its not the day the Teddy bears have their picnic, its the day we find out if we do support a sh*t cricket team.

[whufc]

And to think there were people who were calling Smiths selection over Ferguson at the time a disgrace, bias etc etc.

[The Bedge]

4/117 approaching lunch. Zampa with the wicket.

Dalton bowling handy little meds as well, looks like he has Finch very wary.

[Lightning McQueen]

4/117 approaching lunch. Zampa with the wicket.

Dalton bowling handy little meds as well, looks like he has Finch very wary.

The door isn't locked yet.

[The Bedge]

Couple close LBW's, and a missed C&B aren't helping.. this pitch doesn't look like it's gonna be easy to bat on day 5 though, Holland will rip them square.

[Lightning McQueen]

Couple close LBW's, and a missed C&B aren't helping.. this pitch doesn't look like it's gonna be easy to bat on day 5 though, Holland will rip them square.

Fly me over there, I know where he's staying.

[The Bedge]

VIC 5/144 - lead by 344

[Bombers4EVA]

How the f#@k can we have them at 5/144 and struggled to get wickets early in the first innings.

[The Bedge]

Why is Zampa bowling around the wicket?

[The Bedge]

How the f#@k can we have them at 5/144 and struggled to get wickets early in the first innings.

Very good to bat on early in the match, and we didn't hold chances.