Never been in a better position to win a Sheild Final in over 20 years. I seem to recall a Shield Final vs Vic many years ago that couldn’t be played in Vic for some reason and they chose Tassie as a neutral venue and it was a dull and boring draw which meant Vic win the Shield having finished top.
What are the rules these days? I think they should have to play in the final untill they achieve a result. Good luck to the WA boys, hopefully they can pull it off. Never been in a better position to win it. How long has it been? 20. 25 years? Tempted to go.
WA making a good fist of it at the moment with 0 for 170. Bangers and Whitey going along nicely. I’m working from home so have it on Fox in the background. Just need a few tinnie’s and the day would be going along nicely.
Great first day by the Warriors although it would have been perfect had they not lost Cartwright in the final over. The first ten overs today will be very important because 1st innings bonus points are still live till the 100th over. WA will get 0.01 for every run they score and the Vics will get 0.1 for a wicket, so for WA its all about wicket preservation in these 10 overs. At the moment WA lead 0.9 to 0.3.
This is crucial because if the final is a draw then the shield will be given to the team that has the highest 1st innings bonus points. With the forecast of rain on Sunday and a seemingly flat batting track the final could come down to this so WA need to make sure they keep in front. Once they reach the 100 over mark, bonus points no longer apply but I imagine WA would ideally be looking for a score in the vicinity of 450, then unleash their bowlers on the Vics sometime between lunch and tea.
WA have fallen in their customary heap this morning, having lost 5/20 since Cartwright’s silly dismissal on the second last ball last night at a ball he should have left well outside off stump.
I said to myself at the time that could end up being very costly and thus it has proven so this morning and may well be the turning point in the Shield Final.
Sutherland & Boland have done the damage with the second new ball which is moving around with the humid, cloudy conditions in Perth today.
Shaking my head at what has happened this morning. The Vics have bowled very well but nobody has taken any initiative and they are now completely stuck to the crease. They tried to play it safe and it backfired. Phillipe was just a wicket waiting to happen whereas if he had played his natural game he might have got some away and given the innings some momentum That hour may well cost WA the Shield unless the bowlers can run through Victoria when they bat. Very disappointing.
I think bonus points will be irrelevant as the pitch is doing enough for there to be a result in this game even if we get rain on Sunday. It will now come down to whether the WA bowlers can replicate what the Vics have done today.
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Fancy having a commentary of a Shield Final from a studio in Sydney.
Absolutely appalling stuff from Fox & once again treating WA with contempt.
They could have had dozens of ex West Australian players both capable and available to call this game LIVE from the venue at the WACA!
Wonderful cameo from Corey Rocchiccioli, 50 priceless runs to snatch back some of the momentum for WA after what was undoubtedly Victorias morning. I think that they probably would have taken 384 at the toss but after being 2- 287 at one stage would have expected to get 450+ from there. Now its up to the bowlers to try and make some early inroads into the Victorian batting. I suspect that this pitch is a new ball wicket so the first 20 -25 overs will be crucial. Victoria failed to take any wickets with the first new ball but 5 with the 2nd so WA would be hoping to get some breakthroughs in the session after lunch.
Pitch now looks docile. No real alarms for the batsmen which is amazing when you think that the VIcs took 7 wickets this morning. Pucovski looks ominous. Hasn’t he made a double ton against WA? Wickets needed very soon or they could be looking at a big first innings score.
3 good wickets for WA and they kept the run rate under control. The match is very delicately poised at the end of day 2. 42 overs remain for the bonus points and WA lead by around 0.7 at the moment, so any wickets they can get in the first session tomorrow morning would be worth gold for them. Handscomb and Maddinson are the key players for the Vics.
There will be a new ball available in 22 overs so WA would be keen to keep Victoria under or around 200 until then if they can. It is a fascinating situation and I must admit the new system has livened up the shield final concept as teams are no longer going into these games with a defensive mindset. I still think an outright result is likely as long as the forecast rain doesn’t take too much out of the game. If WA can keep in front of the bonus points score by the end of the 100 overs I wouldn’t be surprised if Victoria declare behind to try and bowl WA out cheaply in the 3rd innings.
Fancy having a commentary of a Shield Final from a studio in Sydney.
Absolutely appalling stuff from Fox & once again treating WA with contempt.
They could have had dozens of ex West Australian players both capable and available to call this game LIVE from the venue at the WACA!
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Yep I turned the commentary down and just watched it on mute. Haddin and Symonds are awful and I was hoping the audio would break down from the Sydney studio. What would have been wrong with Mike Hussey and Adam Gilchrist anchoring the coverage from the WACA as they are also on Fox’s payroll?
Yep I turned the commentary down and just watched it on mute. Haddin and Symonds are awful and I was hoping the audio would break down from the Sydney studio. What would have been wrong with Mike Hussey and Adam Gilchrist anchoring the coverage from the WACA as they are also on Fox’s payroll?
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Mike I encourage everyone to make a complaint as it is just yet another case of WA being made piss out of from the East Coast morons.
Funnily enough I saw pictures of Gilchrist, Hussey, Langer, Clark, Hughes, Charlesworth, Dorey etc all enjoying the game from the WACA, surely they could have been used in commentary instead of the likes of Lehmann, Haddin & Symonds etc who have no interest in the game or certainly from a WA aspect and the mute point for me was when they banged on about NSW for the hundredth time the sound went down and 91.3 with WA boys commentating went on!
Really good day 2 by Victoria.Looks like there going to grind out day 3.Bat there 100+ overs ,get some bonus points.And try and bowl our second innings out cheaply.Game very much in the balance after Wa’s great day 1.
Gee the WA bowling attack looks very pedestrian, it could well be the pitch is flat but compared to how Boland and Sutherland looked for the VICs with the second new ball we have looked military in comparison.
Maybe 3 games in 3 weeks has cooked them but they look very easy to play at the moment?
The drought could well continue as at the minute we dont even look like picking up a wicket including the night watchman who is making it look like a Sunday picnic.
BH Victoria have passed the 200 mark for a bonus point.If we don’t take wickets we will lose in a draw,under the bonus points..The longer this status quo remains the stronger the Vic’s look.
Rain forecast for tomorrow.So another hurdle facing WA.
Desperately needed wicket of Handscomb taken on the stroke of lunch which has given WA a ray of hope.
First hour after lunch will be all on the line as the final tussle for bonus points plays out. My understanding is that the Vics need to get to 288 if they don’t lose another wicket, so another 55 in 15 overs. If they lose a 5th wicket they have to score another 10 and so on for any further wickets lost. So WA need to do to the VIc’s what they did to us yesterday and skittle 3 or 4 in the next 15 overs. This will hopefully ensure that WA stay in the lead on bonus points but will be a great help as far as the outright result of the match is concerned if we can do this damage.
From Victoria’s point of view they would like another partnership to develop which ensures that they get to that 288 figure. Then they can bat for as long as they can and frustrate the WA bowlers
