Surprise surprise…Stoinis teases folk once again with an explosive 100…all a bit late Marcus…where was all this bravado in the WC when needed?..good start by the WA boys…any win over the Vics is a good one…
Hit the ball as well as he did at Eden Park vs NZ a couple of years ago but we need more of it from Stoinis not just once every couple of years.
The likes of Bancroft, S.Marsh, Stoinis obviously much prefer the Australian roads compared to those Pommy pitches that is for sure.
Seriously?..Cam Green misses out on a gig to Hilton Cartwright in today’s game…FMD…
Just curious why is this tournament called the Marsh Cup? Surely not in honour of the Marsh brothers? Then who? Rodney, Geoff?
The sponsor of the tournament Marsh is an American based Insurance Broking and Risk Management mob I think?
Thank christ for that, just seemed weird. Thanks for that BH.
why are they not showing the full games on television?
Is it available on the ACB web site?
Cartwright’s fc average is just 29.56 if you take out his eight ‘not outs’.
He has survived, of course, because two or three others, whom the WACA has finally released, had batted even worse then him in recent seasons.
If you give MR Marsh’s fc the same treatment, you get the following number:
27.21
All this in an era of flat pitches in the Shield, too.
Not sure about the ABC but wouldn’t think so mate. Fox has the rights and they have been showing the games on 501 or 502.
AR the games have either been on Fox Cricket (501) or the Cricket Network on the CA web page.
The pro NSW commentary yesterday couldnt believe the NSW 2nd XI didnt win yesterday which is probably a fair comment considering the dreadful umpiring by Blocker Wilson who was doing his level best to get NSW up with some astonishing lbw turn downs and finally the WA bowlers started to actually bowl yorkers at the stumps (which have always been and are still the hardest ball to score from) instead of short crap or half volleys!
Thanks Bease – what is wrong with Wilson? We recruited him once, if I remember it correctly, he should be more grateful to WA.
What a piss weak performance today by WA being absolutely smashed by the NSW 2nd XI at Drummoyne Oval by 77 runs.
WA at full strength bar an injured Ashton Turner were torn a new one by a NSW side missing-
Steve Smith
David Warner
Kurtis Patterson
Pat Cummins
Mitchell Starc
Nathan Lyon
Josh Hazlewood (all rested)
Steve o’Keefe (injured)
From the NSW side that played today only Daniel Hughes, Moises Henriques, Peter Nevill, Sean Abbott & possibly Harry Conway would even get a look in if all were available.
If NSW were at full strength they would have embarrassed these serial underperforming imposters from the WACA!
BH well summed up – it is very disappointing.
Underperforming imposters?? Last time I checked they were 3-1 in this competition. Yes they had a bad day today but really they were mostly undone by a brilliant innings from Hughes.Far better to put in a shocker in the qualifying round than in the semi final which is what happened last year. Lets see how they respond in the next game.
while I am Western Australian through and through we were lucky to beat NSW last time we met a few days ago I can’t understand how we scored 210 from 35 overs and NSW had to score 241 from the same amount of overs this Duckworth Lewis system is stupid can anyone explain how it works
Good to see Cartwright score a 70 odd…good selection that from Voges…LOL
what is this fascination of batting Mitch Marsh top 5?..he has proven time and time again he isn’t top 5 material…hardly even top 6…never going to bat there for Aust…bat him 7 and leave the batting to the recognised batsmen…
Mike please the fact is WA has well underachieved for 20 odd years now, in this tournament so far we played the first 2 games at home against VIC & TAS who were not at full strength (no Ashes tourists- Harris, Pattinson, Siddle, Paine & Wade) and then the 3rd game on Monday NSW 2nd XI easily outscored us but only lost on DLS. Yesterday was nothing short of embarrassing against NSW 2nd XI.
Spot on Freeze he is a bowling all rounder everyone bar the WA/AUST selectors can see that for some reason, he should bat at 7 or 8 only!
Spot on Freeze he is a bowling all rounder everyone bar the WA/AUST selectors can see that for some reason, he should bat at 7 or 8 only!
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yep, bat him at 7 at best - he is the new breed in cricket, a fielding all-rounder. He fields well and bowls and bats a bit.
ooli – that is very good – I agree with all the posts on where MR Marsh should bat and bowl in the side, if at all.