Sheffield Shield Round 8: Victoria v Tasmania @ Junction Oval

[grimlock]

Sheffield Shield Round 8: Victoria v Tasmania @ Junction Oval
Tuesday 5th March 2019 - Friday 8th March 2019

CA scorecard: https://live.cricket.com.au/match/2...rs-men-jlt-sheffield-shield-2018-19/scorecard

Position	Team	Matches	Wins	Draws	Losses	Bat Bonus Points	Bowl Bonus Points	Total Points
1	Victoria	7	4	2	1	7.24	6.20	39.44
2	New South Wales	7	3	3	1	4.36	5.10	30.46
3	Tasmania	7	3	1	3	1.28	6.50	26.78
4	Queensland	7	2	2	3	3.72	5.10	22.82
5	Western Australia	7	2	2	3	2.34	5.10	21.44
6	South Australia	7	0	4	3	4.41	5.00	13.41

In Round 4, Victoria won a see-sawing match, eventually by a comfortable 6 wickets

Tasmania 81 (Silk 16, Tremain 5/13) and 476 (Wade 137, Siddle 4/100)
defeated by
Victoria 282 (White 63, Meredith 4/61) and 4/276 (Harris 67, Bird 2/65)

VIC XII

• 29. Travis DEAN (c)
• 24. Scott BOLAND
• 17. Andrew FEKETE
• 36. Seb GOTCH (+)
• 14. Marcus HARRIS
• 18. Jon HOLLAND
• 53. Nic MADDINSON
• 10. Will PUCOVSKI
• 2. Matt SHORT
• 20. Peter SIDDLE
• 99. Chris TREMAIN
• 9. Cameron WHITE

In: Fekete
Out:


TAS XIII

• 13. Matthew WADE (c)(+)
• 5. Gabe BELL
• 22. Jackson BIRD
• 64. Alex DOOLAN
• 2. Jake DORAN
• 19. Jarrod FREEMAN
• 28. Ben McDERMOTT
• 12. Riley MEREDITH
• 43. Sam RAINBIRD
• 6. Tom ROGERS
• 21. Jordan SILK
• 9. Charlie WAKIM
• Sean WILLIS (FC debut)

In: Bell, Freeman, Rainbird, Willis
Out: Tim PAINE (rested), Alex PYECROFT


Weather

• Tuesday
  
  16-29. Partly cloudy. Medium (40%) chance of showers, most likely later in the day.
• Wednesday
  
  15-20. Cloudy. Medium (60%) chance of showers.
• Thursday
  
  11-23. Mostly sunny
• Friday TBA

 

[eth-dog]

I suspect it'll be a Bell and Willis direct swap for Pyecroft and Paine

 

[eth-dog]

Also it's gonna be 15 to 25 on Friday, partly cloudy according to the BOM

 

[Hamingja]

I suspect it'll be a Bell and Willis direct swap for Pyecroft and Paine

I'd say so. You'd think Willis would have to debut. Would be risky to go 5 bats + Wade without a Milenko/Faulkner in the side.

 

[grimlock]

Updated Vic squad in OP

 

[eth-dog]

Can understand the Gotch/Harper decision given Harper made 15 for Melbourne and Gotch made 59 n/o. Disappointed to see Dean still get a game but he did make 76 for Footscray.

 

[Lynnsanity]

Looks like Travis Dean is getting the Aaron Finch treatment, despite his atrocious form he is supposedly undroppable because he has the C next to his name. Surely there is someone better who can captain and surely there would be better options for an opening bat?

He is one of the most overrated batsman in the entire competition but then again I don’t even know if you guys even rate him anymore.

 

[Lynnsanity]

Serious question, would Tim Paine even be a certain starter in the Tasmanian XI if he wasn’t donning the gloves when he is available? Not unless Tasmania want a specialist No.7 with the bat.


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[eth-dog]

Looks like Travis Dean is getting the Aaron Finch treatment, despite his atrocious form he is supposedly undroppable because he has the C next to his name. Surely there is someone better who can captain and surely there would be better options for an opening bat?

He is one of the most overrated batsman in the entire competition but then again I don’t even know if you guys even rate him anymore.

Take away your hatred of every Victorian and you'd realise pretty much all of us have been saying he shouldn't be in the side over the past 15 games or so. We have nothing but openers making runs in grade cricket yet he gets rewarded with captaincy...

 

[Lynnsanity]

Take away your hatred of every Victorian and you'd realise pretty much all of us have been saying he shouldn't be in the side over the past 15 games or so. We have nothing but openers making runs in grade cricket yet he gets rewarded with captaincy...

Hence why I said I’m pretty sure he isn’t even rated by you Victorian fans anymore. I honestly can’t believe he is captain. I’ll give credit when credit is due but Dean’s last 12 months must be bordering tail ender status. I’d even back Scott Boland to make more runs than Dean at the moment in any given day

The only other batsman that comes immediately to mind that has been horrendously out of form for ages yet still seems to somehow be miraculously picked is Hilton Cartwright. And to a lesser extent a 2019 Jake Lehmann.

 

[Hamingja]

Serious question, would Tim Paine even be a certain starter in the Tasmanian XI if he wasn’t donning the gloves when he is available? Not unless Tasmania want a specialist No.7 with the bat.

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Griffith has been pretty keen to rest him both for the Hurricanes and now the Tigers after one match.

If Bailey was available I'd say probably not but it looks like they are going to debut another batsman here so like you said he would get a game at 7 if Wade was keeping and batting higher.

 

[eddiesmith]

Big game to just about lock in a home final if QLD can do the right thing against NSW, so expect Victoria to be rolled cheaply

 

[Drunkcat]

Dean was rated but is having a very bad patch so is very lucky..even Cam White is having a very up and down year

 

[eth-dog]

Siddle out for Fekete

Rogers, Paine, Pyecroft out for Rainbird, Freeman, Bell

Surprised Rogers got cut given the fragility of that Tassie tail. Bloke is a Luke Butterworth clone and a better bat than Freeman IMO.

And Dean fails AGAIN. FFS the guy is averaging less than 20 this year!

 

[HODGEYROAD]

No idea why Dean is still is in the side, also Pucovski hasn't made a run since returning. Terrible start for the Vics today.

 

[Lynnsanity]

Dean our for 2 this morning...

Colour me ****ing shocked. Once the Aussie players are back he should be thrown to the scrap heap.

Anyways good fight back from you lot considering you went in a batsman down. Pity QLD don’t seem to want to take advantage of Tasmania falling behind here.

 

[eth-dog]

Dean our for 2 this morning...

Colour me ******* shocked. Once the Aussie players are back he should be thrown to the scrap heap.

Anyways good fight back from you lot considering you went in a batsman down. Pity QLD don’t seem to want to take advantage of Tasmania falling behind here.

Won't have them back again. And a Draw keeps you guys alive, just. As long as we beat NSW as well though

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Dean needs to put a want to buy ad in the paper, under the header of ‘a run’.

 

[Blue Arrow]

Harris looking good again, hopefully he can crack the 1k season this innings.

 

[Hamingja]

Tassie making some strange selection decisions

 

[eth-dog]

Tassie making some strange selection decisions

Can understand the Freeman one, you need a spinner at the Junction, even if he's bowling tripe. But playing Rainbird, who at his best was mediocre, is just plain baffling.

 

[eth-dog]

FFS Marcus.

 

[Torz]

FFS Marcus.

Did he try and slog the spinner while he was on 94?

 

[eth-dog]

Did he try and slog the spinner while he was on 94?

In one.

 

[eth-dog]

MADDO!