24 years old 19 games av 36 You feel he is the real deal ?
Too early to tell but he is a very compact tidy opener. Seems to have great cricket IQ and an ability to score all around the wicket. Really strong against the short ball which will hold him in good sted in Australia.
Comes from a strong sporting family. Dad was an NRL player.
Was involved in the Aussie u/19 squad which suggest he has some talent, in 18-19 was the futures league leading run scorer so he seems to be on a good trajectory each level he rises to.
24 years old 19 games av 36 You feel he is the real deal ?
Too early to tell but he is a very compact tidy opener. Seems to have great cricket IQ and an ability to score all around the wicket. Really strong against the short ball which will hold him in good sted in Australia.
Comes from a strong sporting family. Dad was an NRL player.
Was involved in the Aussie u/19 squad which suggest he has some talent, in 18-19 was the futures league leading run scorer so he seems to be on a good trajectory each level he rises to.
Not the worst option out there.
Wouldn't mind him to keep churning out runs in the Shield whilst the Test Matches are.....oh wait a minute [emoji849]
Lightning McQueen wrote:How's KOK suggesting the Carder should get the gig, funny bloke but I think we'll just leave it at that.
I wondered if his ridiculous call would get a mention on here, seriously what cricket has that bloke been watching, I was thinking he got Cadar and Hunt mixed up?
I agree with what Whufc has said about Hunt, he continues to be the shining light of SA's top 6 and its great for him to get another century
Tasmania 1/10 as Worrall get Jewell.
Queensland v WA WA 281 Phillippe 129 Steketee 4/74
Queensland second innings 0/1 and rain has stopped play.
Here's an excerpt of an article on Dizzy that's on AdelaideNow and going to be in tomorrow's paper:
"Winning droughts and losing streaks though are common in South Australian cricket. The state has not won the Sheffield Shield since 1996 when Gillespie was just a 20-year-old starting to make his way in the game. In the 25 years since SA last won, Queensland has won the Shield eight times, Victoria seven, NSW five, Tasmania three and WA twice. In that time SA has also failed to produce consistent national team players apart from Gillespie, who has a statue at Adelaide Oval to mark his achievements in the game. SA is the only state never to produce a player that has played 100 Tests for Australia.
From the outside, it’s easy to believe SA has cultural and systemic issues that start with the board of the South Australian Cricket Association and filter down through all levels of cricket.
Last year, former Australian batter Mike Hussey completed a review of SA cricket which found, in part, “that South Australian cricket has had a culture of mediocrity for many years and acceptance of it has been a barrier to success’’.
Gillespie agrees with Hussey’s finding, but goes even further. Gillespie believes there has been a “culture of entitlement’’ within South Australian cricket and its players. That there are too many players whose ambitions stop at being picked for the Redbacks.
“If your whole goal as a cricketer is to get one game for South Australia, well, you’re definitely not contributing,’’ he says.
But it also goes deeper than that. Gillespie says he has come across too many within cricket, players and officials, whose mindset is about what SA cricket can do for them, rather than the other way around.
“You get club cricketers saying ‘what’s the SACA going to do for me?’ And I want to turn that on its head. I’d love a player to come and go `What can I do for South Australian cricket, to help South Australian cricket improve?’.
“I think there’s a culture of entitlement, I’d use that term, there’s a culture of entitlement. ‘What are you going to do for me?’.’’
How about the staff that have been involved in the "culture of mediocrity" are still in charge!! How about those that are on good coin actually do something as well!!
24 years old 19 games av 36 You feel he is the real deal ?
Too early to tell but he is a very compact tidy opener. Seems to have great cricket IQ and an ability to score all around the wicket. Really strong against the short ball which will hold him in good sted in Australia.
Comes from a strong sporting family. Dad was an NRL player.
Was involved in the Aussie u/19 squad which suggest he has some talent, in 18-19 was the futures league leading run scorer so he seems to be on a good trajectory each level he rises to.
Not the worst option out there.
All he has to do is shoe horn old mate Warner out of the team.
And so long that as Davy is banging double bouncers into the stands, in a T ball comp, I guess he safe. Because I can just see Anderson and co dishing up those sort of pills to him…
1961, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 2008, 2013, 2014, 2015.... And don't you forget it!
am Bays wrote:Maybe this should also be in the WTF thread, in the GD board but
Jamie Briggs getting SACA endorsement for election to the Board??
Do we really want a person of that questionable standards of Behaviour on the board running cricket in this state??
F*** Me!
Correct - just another snout in the trough!! This is why we are the laughing stock of Australian cricket. Absolutely no notice taken of the Hussey report (other than recruiting interstaters) and the Board continue to allow the same people to run cricket who have overseen a culture of failure for many years - no accountability whatsoever. All the Board are interested in is attending the Test Match lunches!! Complete bunch of timewasters.
F***
Let that be a lesson to you Port, no one beats the Bays five times in a row in a GF and gets away with it!!!
