Sheffield Shield Round 2: NSW Blues v Victoria Bushrangers @ SCG

[bird_man]

3 votes - Brad Haddin
2 votes - SCG Trust
1 vote - LPNo1

Brad Haddin? What did I miss here?

 

[MisterMarcus]

Brad Haddin? What did I miss here?

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cric...d-shield-match-abandoned-20151108-gktypn.html

 

[JUBJUB]

Just announced on abc radio that Victoria have received the full 6 points.

and the SCG has had it's next Shield game removed.Shunted off to Bankstown.

 

[eddiesmith]

Great decision, funny reading the article on cricket.com.au, first off a great swipe from Tony Dodemaide at the SCG curator

"We're in a similar situation where we contract a ground, being the MCG, to present games that are scheduled at an appropriate standard. We had a Shield game down here (last week) and it was only about three weeks since the (AFL) grand final and the pitch and ground itself was presented in a terrific condition at the MCG.

"(Cricket NSW) would be rightfully really disappointed. I think it's been some time since there was actually anything that had gone on at the SCG - since the footy season finished, but that's nearly two months away now.

"I know there's been rain in the last week or so, but clearly there's been a lot of time to get the ground right. I would be disappointd if I was in Andrew Jones's shoes as well."

Then the whingeing from NSW...

Blues coach Trent Johnston said his players completed a two-and-a-half hour net session on the centre wicket without incident on Sunday afternoon.

He said his side was willing to field, with captain Moises Henriques prepared to declare in a bid to speed up the match.

"Out here today it's a beautiful day in Sydney and I think maybe the abandonment of the game was probably a little bit early," Johnston told Sky Sports Radio on Monday.

"I think we could've got some play in today."

http://www.cricket.com.au/news/vict...abandoned-cricket-australia-review/2015-11-09

 

[Bumpswithagrin]

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cric...d-shield-match-abandoned-20151108-gktypn.html

Haddin sounds like a complete dill now that the match has been abandoned and Victoria have been awarded the points.

Just heard on The Cricket Show that the head curator at the SCG (Tom Parker?) has been off for some time due to illness so that may account for why the ground was so badly prepared.

 

[MisterMarcus]

Then the whingeing from NSW...
http://www.cricket.com.au/news/vict...abandoned-cricket-australia-review/2015-11-09

This has been the disappointing thing for me. There doesn't seem to have been any apology, just alot of shooting the messenger.

There was a comment that the matches were being moved "so another team doesn't complain and we lose another 6 points", rather than admitting there was actually a genuine concern there.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Content with the decision, not saying I agree with it and I feel the SCG shouldn't hold matches in the first 3 rounds of the Shield season (and did before this year). This will only be more important as the Swans play all matches at the SCG, thus the curator needs time. However I'm happy to trust that Cricket Australia made the call and will trust their decision. Move on, looking forward to round 3.

 

[Phone]

Brad Haddin? What did I miss here?

he had fun with the situation and people are gonna take him seriously

based on what I've seen and heard there's not any difference between this and previous early season games, see against Victoria almost exactly 3 years ago and Farrell's tweet, except that 2 separate lots of about 10 mils of rain got dumped on the ground in the space of 16 or so hours. So I guess the lesson is we'll overlook this unless it rains a lot? anyway the ground will be fine by december.

and you really have to wonder if the umpire's who made the players play on what they deemed to be a dangerous surface will face their own punishment. tut tut tut

 

[Art Vandelay_]

http://www.theage.com.au/sport/cric...d-shield-match-abandoned-20151108-gktypn.html

Even in retirement Bad Hands is an insufferable twat.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Even in retirement Bad Hands is an insufferable twat.

Really? Sounds like it was in jest.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Really? Sounds like it was in jest.

Hard to know intention definitively from print media alone but I didn't perceive it to be jovial at all.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Hard to know intention definitively from print media alone but I didn't perceive it to be jovial at all.

The article itself states it as a 'light hearted jab' and 'tongue in cheek'.

 

[Phone]

Brad Haddin is of course known for being a completely serious robotic figure, never joking around or stirring things up for a laugh