Can you imagine what would be said about state bias in selection for the Australian side if Marsh came from NSW.
Does anybody know why the one-day game yesterday started being streammed for free, but then became locked half way through the game?
There were many rain delays AR were no play was possible but I managed to watch it all online.
I couldnt believe we only bowled Kelly for 2 overs (took 3/7) as the late great Richie Benaud would say “The Captain has got his sums wrong again”!!!
There were many rain delays AR were no play was possible but I managed to watch it all online.
I couldnt believe we only bowled Kelly for 2 overs (took 3/7) as the late great Richie Benaud would say “The Captain has got his sums wrong again”!!!
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Very strange decision and it nearly cost them, if Handscomb had another over he would have got them over the line I reckon.
What a comical run out of Cartwright in the game against QLD at the Gold Coast!
Only WA could lose 4 for 5 when seemingly coasting to victory in a run chase!
Only WA could lose 7 for 24 when seemingly coasting to victory in a run chase of 269.
That sort of collapse just would NOT have happened to the WA teams of the 1970s & 80s!
That collapse may cost them a home final BH. In fact if they lose their last game in Adelaide they may miss out on the final altogether. This would be very disappointing given that they should really be bossing this competition with the personnel that they have at their disposal. Where was Jhye Richardson today?
Pretty much the same ol story of the last 20 years or so Mike.
I think Richardson was rested possibly for the upcoming Australia A game against Pakistan?
Yeah 7/24 was definitely a bit of a mare…be interested to see what tack Voges takes now…play less bits and pieces players and more specialist batsmen?..who is there in grade cricket that Voges can bring in as a specialist batsman?
freezin, bh, mikeh: It was very bad. The worse part about it is the WACA’s obsession with all-rounders, there is no awareness down there, that such players of note are very rare in cricket history. Since the beginning of our time in the Shield – late 1940s – we have produced just three all-rounders: Maclay, Brayshaw and Moody; and, remember, I am being kind, because, both Moody and Maclay, had respective stronger suits, batting or bowlling stronger suits. Given those hard as steel krupp facts which used to go into the making of the German panzer divisions, how is it possible for the WACA to believe, in 2019, that WA has eleven all rounders?
Yep that Hilton Carthorse is a lulu of an all rounder…to be fair it’s not Carthorse’s fault he gets picked though - someone else does that.
ooli – that is true, but as Neil Young once sang ‘there comes a time’.
If you look at the Warriors squad listed on the WACA website there are only the following actually listed as Batsmen
Bancroft
Sean Marsh
Bosisto ( hasn’t he gone interstate?)
Carder
David
Phillipe
Wells
Everyone else is either graded as a bowler, all rounder or wicket keeper
Not sure how the WA 2nd XI is going for specialist batsmen, maybe they are going outside the squad.
the person in charge of the website is doing a good job:
Bosisto - South Australia
David - playing for Singapore in the ICC qualifiers
Wells - dropped from squad
sooner the CEO gets dumped the better - place is a joke
Maybe the CEO moonlights as a WA selector on the side.
And the way they sling around all rounder status these days I reckon Terry Alderman would probably wish this was his era - they would have called him a bowling all rounder.
All will be sweet when the skipper comes back into the top 4…world class bowling allrounder from memory is our Mitch
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.
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As I posted some time back the pretenders (WA) are being taken apart by SA (yes South Australia not South Africa) 8/174 after 37 overs with Ashton Agar’s younger brother taking a 5 for.
So after being 3-0 including playing at home against under strength VIC & TAS and the NSW 2nd XI at Drummoyne they have fallen in a heap again and will go from top of the ladder looking at hosting a Final to possibly not even making the Final!
If the performances in the SS do not improve in the 2nd half of the season is it time to have a complete clean out at the WACA?
Got to 252 with Cameron Green making 86. Making the so called specialist batsmen look silly again. Will that be defendable?
252 is a poor score in Adelaide, so will be difficult to defend. Lose this game and we’re probably out of the final(again)
Croweaters 7/126 with Coulter-nile having 5 for… ferguson still there on 47…