Australian Domestic Season 2024/25

[locky801]

4/44 we are going to arent we

[am Bays]

That’d be the end of Lehmann now surely

I thought my ‘keeping yesterday was the worst thing on an Australian Cricket Oval this weekend until I saw that shot…

[Brodlach]

3 to go

[Brodlach]

Sangha ends it with a 6.


Outright win before tea day 2!

[locky801]

Thanks for coming

[Brodlach]

Thanks for coming

Except we went there


Now have to wait until Thursday for a One Day game

[jackpot jim]

It's been obvious for at least the last 5 years that curators around Australia have been instructed to produce more sporting pitches that are basically guaranteed to get results but it's simply getting out of hand now.
I know cricket is a game where results can naturally be very variable and they cant always relate directly to the pitch but something clearly isn't right in the West remembering that early in the Season WA lost 8/1 and were rolled for 53 in a 1 day match against Tassie.

Great result for the Redbacks (I dont GAF if thats what they're not known as now)
They're shortening by the minute to play in the Final
I'm like everyone else that find it hard to see them winning with the problems with the batting order but if curators keep dishing these pitches up it may just not matter ?

[Eagles2014]

It's been obvious for at least the last 5 years that curators around Australia have been instructed to produce more sporting pitches that are basically guaranteed to get results but it's simply getting out of hand now.
I know cricket is a game where results can naturally be very variable and they cant always relate directly to the pitch but something clearly isn't right in the West remembering that early in the Season WA lost 8/1 and were rolled for 53 in a 1 day match against Tassie.

Great result for the Redbacks (I dont GAF if thats what they're not known as now)
They're shortening by the minute to play in the Final
I'm like everyone else that find it hard to see them winning with the problems with the batting order but if curators keep dishing these pitches up it may just not matter ?

Play to our strengths which is our bowling line up, keep up the green decks I say

[The Bedge]

Hopefully Tassie can get the result over Victoria.

[Sonofbrowny25]

It's been obvious for at least the last 5 years that curators around Australia have been instructed to produce more sporting pitches that are basically guaranteed to get results but it's simply getting out of hand now.
I know cricket is a game where results can naturally be very variable and they cant always relate directly to the pitch but something clearly isn't right in the West remembering that early in the Season WA lost 8/1 and were rolled for 53 in a 1 day match against Tassie.

Great result for the Redbacks (I dont GAF if thats what they're not known as now)
They're shortening by the minute to play in the Final
I'm like everyone else that find it hard to see them winning with the problems with the batting order but if curators keep dishing these pitches up it may just not matter ?

TBH the pitch wasnt horrid from what i saw. it was bouncy but not doing too much out the oridinary.

Lehmann had in his head it was getting finished that over. i dont hate it because IF he connected we would be praising his positive play. looks ugly when it doesnt come off.

[locky801]

Weatherald holding the Tassie 2nd innings together

9/286

Weatherald 154*

[spell_check]

South Australia in winning consecutive Shield matches, have done it by winning off the last possible ball of the match (vs Tasmania) and now the shortest ever in terms of balls bowled for an outright win:

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/shef ... ca-1472748

[The Dark Knight]

NSW 5/69 in their second innings, need 349 runs to win.
Konstas the top scorer with 22.

Victoria 3/60 in their second innings, need 210 runs to win.

[Lightning McQueen]

Looking through the team lists for the shield sides and there doesn't seem to be a lot of name players, not compared to most years when you know of at least 75% of the teams players, is it that the domestic comp is considerably weaker?

I wonder where we stack up against the other domestic comps around the world, I remember when I was younger we were probably stronger than County cricket despite the big names that went over there from other countries.

[Jim05]

Looking through the team lists for the shield sides and there doesn't seem to be a lot of name players, not compared to most years when you know of at least 75% of the teams players, is it that the domestic comp is considerably weaker?

I wonder where we stack up against the other domestic comps around the world, I remember when I was younger we were probably stronger than County cricket despite the big names that went over there from other countries.

Doesn’t help that about 20-30 are overseas currently

[Lightning McQueen]

Looking through the team lists for the shield sides and there doesn't seem to be a lot of name players, not compared to most years when you know of at least 75% of the teams players, is it that the domestic comp is considerably weaker?

I wonder where we stack up against the other domestic comps around the world, I remember when I was younger we were probably stronger than County cricket despite the big names that went over there from other countries.

Doesn’t help that about 20-30 are overseas currently

Another aspect is that we have white ball and red ball players nowadays, back in the day most just played whatever game was going, there was really only Simon O'Donnell that was a specialist short game player for memory, the rest played both formats, even Tubby with his 67 off 132 balls.

[RB]

The worst Australian state side would destroy pretty much all domestic FC/List A teams in every country, with our without international players.

I reckon we've got more batting depth in domestic cricket than we have in the last fifteen years (albeit nothing like c. 1995-2005), and bowlers who would slice county players into pieces on English decks.

[Lightning McQueen]

The worst Australian state side would destroy pretty much all domestic FC/List A teams in every country, with our without international players.

I reckon we've got more batting depth in domestic cricket than we have in the last fifteen years (albeit nothing like c. 1995-2005), and bowlers who would slice county players into pieces on English decks.

I knew I could rely on the more learned, I'm well out of the loop nowadays.

[amber_fluid]

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

[whufc]

The worst Australian state side would destroy pretty much all domestic FC/List A teams in every country, with our without international players.

I reckon we've got more batting depth in domestic cricket than we have in the last fifteen years (albeit nothing like c. 1995-2005), and bowlers who would slice county players into pieces on English decks.

Not completely true.

Yorkshire at full strength is a team and a half.

That side includes Root, Brook, Bairstow in their batting line up.

Other known names includes Adil Rashid, Dawid Malan, Dom Bess.

Thats not including thier overseas players