Australia A tour of England

[dajesmac]

Thought I'd make a thread for this as I'm sure others will be as interested in it as I am. Cowan currently on 82*, no failures so far really and Forrest made 52. Interesting to see Uzzie Khawaja playing against them for Derbyshire. Bailey is currently the other man at the crease with 21*, and we're 2/187.

Thought this deserved it's own thread as it's specifically for talk about Australia's second XI.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Coulter-Nile replaced Pattinson in the squad; patto_man with an abdominal strain, NCN with a bout of awesomeness.

 

[dajesmac]

Ah cheers, wasn't sure why patto_man missed out. I was happy with the IN: McDermott for Cummins though.

Cowan just brings up a very brisk century, he and Bailey picking up the rate.

 

[dajesmac]

Joe Burns in after Cowan falls - I'm keen to see what this lad can do.

 

[dajesmac]

An amazing innings from Burns, was on about 6 from 41 when I last looked, 74 from 87 not out at the declaration.

 

[bombers007]

This on foxtel?

 

[Doodlesweaver]

This on foxtel?

It's not even on digital radio in England much to my annoyance.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Shame it's not on tv. Good to see Cowan in the runs. Really hope Burns scores plenty of runs. Australia needs some young batsmen to step up.

 

[medhurstISGOD]

Quiney isn't even in the squad.

And why is Lyon in there?

 

[Bucking Beads]

Quiney isn't even in the squad.

And why is Lyon in there?

Lyon is there to gain experience in English Conditions

 

[medhurstISGOD]

Is he playing county cricket?

 

[Bucking Beads]

Is he playing county cricket?

Don't think so

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Johnson has bowled five overs without a wide. That will be enough to secure a Test spot until 2014.

 

[Carbine Chaos]

Derbyshire 2/186, nightwatchman Palladino (FC avg of 13) just got his 100...wow.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Pathetic surely someone can take wickets. Bird doing nothing. Thought he would be suited well to the conditions. Johnson shouldn't be there.

 

[dajesmac]

Seems like pretty shameful bowling.

A 78 from Smith is at least encouraging.

 

[BarneyBent]

Seems like pretty shameful bowling.

A 78 from Smith is at least encouraging.

Batting at 3 as well. The sooner people realise he's a middle order batsman the better.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Burns batting after Johnson and Starc?? Seriously our bowlers don't need batting practice.

 

[ioppolo]

Cowan batting at 8?

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

Cowan batting at 8?

He got first innings runs, let some others have a crack. Seems a reasonable thing to do in an AusA game. Its not a competition game or anything, why not share the responsibilities around and see who stands up.

 

[dajesmac]

Burns batting at 10, Khawaja bowling to them haha.

At least Khawaja is making runs against us.

 

[dajesmac]

Patterson seems to dominate U/19s cricket.

 

[The Passenger]

very disappointing to see cutting going home with an injury. given his history even minor niggles (and i have no idea about this one) are not good signs.

as for the game, just going off the scores there is a few positives, but taking only 3 for in the first is definitely not one of them.

but at least we had two test players put in good numbers - cowan and lyon, whilst a few test aspirants (burns, bailey and dare i say it, smith and johnson) put in solid to real good returns, whilst the oppositions leading runscorer over their two innings was an australian...

i think you gotta pretty negative to not see some positives in those numbers.

 

[Doodlesweaver]

Is Johnson putting in solid performances a good thing? I'm damned if I know.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Is Johnson putting in solid performances a good thing? I'm damned if I know.

I'd be more interested on seeing how he is going in a few more months. Still hasn't bowled a lot in the last year. Should be nowhere near the Aussie team that's for sure