Australian Domestic Season 2024/25

[locky801]

Vic and Tas going down to the wire

Vic require 21, Tassie 1 wicket

Handscomb still at the crease though 93*

[locky801]

Tassie get the win by 21 runs

Handscomb last man out for 93

Elliott 6/84 (whoever he may be)

[Jim05]

Tassie get the win by 21 runs

Handscomb last man out for 93

Elliott 6/84 (whoever he may be)

Fair choke
They were going along nicely and only needed 25 to win with 3 wickets in hand and Handscomb in the 90’s

[locky801]

Tassie get the win by 21 runs

Handscomb last man out for 93

Elliott 6/84 (whoever he may be)

Fair choke
They were going along nicely and only needed 25 to win with 3 wickets in hand and Handscomb in the 90’s

Queensland belted NSW by 188 runs

[mal]

Turning point of the Victorian run chase was with the fall of the 4th wicket
Elliott B Elliott 34

[The Dark Knight]

Years ago our top 10 batters outside the test team world average 50.
Now there’s basically no one averaging 50 in FC cricket.
Career averages I mean
Are the bowlers better nowadays?
Pitches not as good for batting?

Why are batters only averaging 40 at best for their FC averages

Alot of the drop in averages in recent times (since 2020/2021) in Shield cricket (and test cricket) is because of the combination of the pitches like you mentioned (drop in pitches/pitches more favourable towards bowlers with more grass being left on them and therefore not as flat) and mainly the reconditioned Kookaburra Ball with the reinforced seam and extra lacquer. It's had a significant impact on batting in Australia.

You could also argue the fast bowlers are better, there’s been a large group of very good fast/fast medium bowlers in Shield cricket for awhile now and perhaps with more of a focus on white-ball cricket now and faster scoring that also may of have an impact on the lower FC averages.

[Aerie]

Years ago our top 10 batters outside the test team world average 50.
Now there’s basically no one averaging 50 in FC cricket.
Career averages I mean
Are the bowlers better nowadays?
Pitches not as good for batting?

Why are batters only averaging 40 at best for their FC averages

Greater professionalism from the bowlers and the fielding team maybe? Greater intel on each batters weakness. Knowing where to bowl and where to set fields etc.

The scores are growing in One Day and T20 Cricket, with field and bowling restrictions, but Test cricket appears as challenging as ever for the batters.

[Lightning McQueen]

You both make valid points, experts spend countless hours looking for batsmen's flaws thanks to all of the footage at their disposal nowadays.

We do seem to have an endless plethora of bowlers at our disposal, we could lose our top 3 pacemen and still have adequate coverage, I'm not sold on the spin department though, you could see how much losing Lyon cost us over in England.

I think in general the pitches are being made to have a bit of juice in them to ensure there is a result, years ago there were results because 9,10 & Jack were all genuine bunnies.

Well they're my 6:30am theories, they could differ to my noon ones and I'll probably be wrong with both sets.

[Rik E Boy]

Don't tell me you lot are going to win the Shield!

regards,

REB

[PatowalongaPirate]

One-Day Cup at the WACA, WA won the toss and sent SA in to bat,

SA 4/107 23 overs
Harvey 24(28)
Hunt 15(25)
Drew 0(2)
Sangha 38(36)

McSweeney 22*(48)
Scott 1*(2)

[PatowalongaPirate]

6/195, 45 overs

Scott 46*(66)
Thornton 20*(30)

[locky801]

Konstas getting some runs for NSW against QLD

Currently 59* off 49

NSW chasing 310 are 4/124 after 20

[locky801]

WA 3/43 after 10

NSW 5/165

Sam the Man 72* off 60

[UK Fan]

SA 9/208
Scott 47
Sangha 38

Beardman 4/46


Wa 4/49 after 12

WA were 0/40 after 6 overs

[locky801]

Just saw Moises Henriques has had a day of it

4 overs for 53 which included 4 sixes in 4 balls and went and batted and got a 3rd ball duck

[locky801]

Sam the Man is on fire

112* off 88

NSW 7/231

[Jim05]

These two doing it comfortably and barring a massive collapse WA should win easily

[locky801]

These two doing it comfortably and barring a massive collapse WA should win easily

Well done Jim, 2 quick wickets

WA 6/127

[locky801]

WA 7/141

Need to get Darcy Short out and we should win

[locky801]

Looks like McSweeney is trying to get these last 3 wickets quickly

Pope still has 8 overs to bowl out of the last 18 currently has 0/19 off 2