Shield Game 5: Victoria vs Western Australia, Junction Oval, Monday 17th-Thursday 20th October, 10:30 AEDT

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Pretty much have to declare as soon as we pass the follow on mark. Unless Whiteman agrees to not enforce it.

Glad they’ve kept batting, WA showed on Day 1 they were here for a draw and nothing else so no point trying to manufacture anything.

Keep ‘em out there on this beautiful summers day.
 

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This is another Junction Road,

One of the reason the Vics don't win more titles

That and jettisoning Siddle/Tremain

How many do you want them to win? They won 4 out of 5 from 2014-15 to 2018-19, and then the seasons were cut short thanks to Covid. It will be interesting to see if Test selectors discount any runs made at Junction Oval as they did for Hookes and Lehmann because they played half their matches in Adelaide.
 
How many do you want them to win? They won 4 out of 5 from 2014-15 to 2018-19, and then the seasons were cut short thanks to Covid. It will be interesting to see if Test selectors discount any runs made at Junction Oval as they did for Hookes and Lehmann because they played half their matches in Adelaide.
Well you look how many draws have occurred there because of this the pitch is the M1 and it has been for a while
 

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Victoria had two options. Either declare around 100 behind and put it on WA to give us a decent chase or get 100-150 up and try to roll them. They chose the latter, would the first have worked? Maybe, but if we'd chosen that and it didn't we'd be discussing whether or not we should have done what we did now.

Frustrating pitch. You can see what the curators were trying to do with it, probably needed another days play on it at some point the past couple of weekends to really get that turn. All the rain we've had in the lead up wouldn't have helped either.
 
It's one of those games where that one extra wicket happens just before they're ready to call it. If these two are there with 15 overs left I think they call it.
 

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