Shield Round 7: Western Australia vs Tasmania, WACA, 5th-8th Feb

[eth-dog]

WA Squad: Sam Whiteman (c), Cameron Bancroft, Hilton Cartwright, Brodie Couch, Joel Curtis, Sam Fanning, Cameron Gannon, Jayden Goodwin, Aaron Hardie, Liam Haskett, Jhye Richardson, Corey Rocchiccioli, Teague Wyllie

Tasmania squad: Jordan Silk (c), Gabe Bell, Jackson Bird, Nikhil Chaudhary, Jake Doran, Caleb Jewell, Raf MacMillan, Aidan O’Connor, Billy Stanlake, Charlie Wakim, Tim Ward, Jake Weatherald, Beau Webster

Possible Sides:

WA:

Whiteman (c)
Bancroft
Goodwin
Cartwright
Hardie
Wyllie
Curtis (+)
Gannon
Richardson
Rocchiccioli
Couch

Tas:

Jewell
Weatherald
Ward
Silk (c)
Doran (+)
Webster
Chaudhary
Macmillan
O'Connor
Bell
Stanlake

 

[Torz]

 

[Torz]

WA elect to bowl first. Interesting choice.

 

[largebus]

Jhye extremely miserly yet no wickets to show for it. Horrible leave from Chaudhary

 

[sherb]

WA elect to bowl first. Interesting choice.

It's Tasmania, our batting is regularly putrid.

Aaaaaand..........we've justified the decision.

 

[Aussie_boy]

Can't be giving those out

 

[Tugga27]

It's Tasmania, our batting is regularly putrid.

Aaaaaand..........we've justified the decision.

You reckon that's a good decision?

 

[sherb]

You reckon that's a good decision?

Nah, I just posted that for the giggles.

 

[sherb]

Second leave resulting in bowled for the day.

 

[Tugga27]

Normal scheduling for WA has resumed.

 

[sherb]

Five Tassie batters: 11*, 22, 33, 44 & 55.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Second leave resulting in bowled for the day.

Why is it batsmen are not able to leave a ball outside the off stump when it's too close to cut (I'm looking at you Carey), and yet they are quite comfortable leaving balls that are crashing into their stumps?

Batting in all three Shield games today has been atrocious.

 

[ioppolo]

Why is it batsmen are not able to leave a ball outside the off stump when it's too close to cut (I'm looking at you Carey), and yet they are quite comfortable leaving balls that are crashing into their stumps?

Batting in all three Shield games today has been atrocious.

17 wickets, 15 wickets and 14 wickets

 

[Westend]

Sorry

But I am disgusted with this batting unit.....just pissed off

Forget past performances this group is going nowhere

Think its time to individually question the characters of certain individuals in this side and move them on

 

[largebus]

Same old same old pissweak batting.
Pretty poor batting across all 3 games, you'd imagine the post-BBL hangover is still affecting them. Although 4 batters getting bowled leaving is the opposite of T20

 

[Westend]

Same old same old pissweak batting.
Pretty poor batting across all 3 games, you'd imagine the post-BBL hangover is still affecting them. Although 4 batters getting bowled leaving is the opposite of T20

Just sick of it...sick of all shield teams winning the toss and bowling on juiced up decks...and trundlers such as Gannon bell picking up wickets for fun..

Batters techniques are just shit ...the ability to pace your innings is disappearing

You reap what you sow and we will struggle in the test arena if we keep going down this path

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

17 wickets, 15 wickets and 14 wickets

And only 1 score in the 50s.

 

[Ljp86]

Just sick of it...sick of all shield teams winning the toss and bowling on juiced up decks...and trundlers such as Gannon bell picking up wickets for fun..

Batters techniques are just shit ...the ability to pace your innings is disappearing

You reap what you sow and we will struggle in the test arena if we keep going down this path

Gannon has been pretty good for WA for a few seasons now and is generally very reliable. At full strength, I'd say he wouldn't be in the first XI but has taken his opportunities when called upon and importantly has remained fit.

I don't think the label of trundler is accurate in my opinion.

 

[ioppolo]

Gannon has led our attack the last few seasons with injuries, national call ups and whatnot. He's been damn fine at it too. I mean, one of those seasons was a shield winning season too so...

He's 37, the end is nigh. The most dodgy action in shield cricket will be passed onto someone else.

 

[Westend]

Gannon has been pretty good for WA for a few seasons now and is generally very reliable. At full strength, I'd say he wouldn't be in the first XI but has taken his opportunities when called upon and importantly has remained fit.

I don't think the label of trundler is accurate in my opinion.

Missing the point juiced up wickets ....medium pace bowlers are having a field day

Look at the leading wicket takers gannon hatcher perry Bell Kelly all in the top 6 along with rocco the only spinner

All are medium pacer's who can wobble it .....and are cleaning up due to poor techniques juiced up wickets .

Its inflating there averages and not good for long term looking to represent Aus in test cricket

The shield comp to me reminds me of the english counties of the late 80s/90s....bowlers who would dominate in first class but not test quality

Honestly if you are fit and can bowl 130-135 ...bowl line length you will take wickets on aussie wickets atm

and dont get me started on the batting

 

[corbies]

Missing the point juiced up wickets ....medium pace bowlers are having a field day

Look at the leading wicket takers gannon hatcher perry Bell Kelly all in the top 6 along with rocco the only spinner

All are medium pacer's who can wobble it .....and are cleaning up due to poor techniques juiced up wickets .

Its inflating there averages and not good for long term looking to represent Aus in test cricket

The shield comp to me reminds me of the english counties of the late 80s/90s....bowlers who would dominate in first class but not test quality

Honestly if you are fit and can bowl 130-135 ...bowl line length you will take wickets on aussie wickets atm

and dont get me started on the batting

Hatcher is not a medium pacer who can wobble it. He bowls 140 and is extremely erratic.

 

[Westend]

Hatcher is not a medium pacer who can wobble it. He bowls 140 and is extremely erratic.

Fair enough corbs...but the point still stands we are producing bowler friendly pitches and the bowlers are getting inflated..and come test cricket they will struggle

 

[cullinan]

Dumb move WACA, surely Haskett has a more elevated ceiling plus he provides versatility to the attack. Additionally he is a home grown lad as well. With two good PC seasons on the trot Wyllie needs to make the most of his second chance.

Do you think being home grown should be a criteria for selection? In that case, maybe you' would prefer a state of irigin scenario where you can only play for your home state...

Also re: Wyllie...would love to see him make runs in this game, but if not, lets not judge him based on one game back at FC level.

 

[cullinan]

Fair enough corbs...but the point still stands we are producing bowler friendly pitches and the bowlers are getting inflated..and come test cricket they will struggle

What do you want - batter friendly pitches? How many of the 46 wickets that fell yesterday across the 3 Shield games were all because of the pitch and nothing to do with good bowling or poor batting.

Also 135km'hr is not medium pace. Cummins and Boland are regularly bowling 135 and we say they are amongst the worlds best bowlers. Its an unrealistic world to expect everyone to bowl 140 plus and regularly bowl the perfect line and length.

There are some decent batting averages floating around Shield this year - for players who have scored over 200 runs there are 13 averaging over 40, and another 12 averaging between 35 and 40. If the pitches were so bowler friendly are you saying that these 25 batters are so good that on "normal" wickets thery would be all be averaging 50 plus and beyond.

I think we have become so obsessed with watching cricket where run rates of 4 plus in red ball cricket are the norm, that as soon we see bowlers dominating we just blame the pitch as a first option.

 

[cullinan]

Hatcher is not a medium pacer who can wobble it. He bowls 140 and is extremely erratic.

Granted that the BBL speed guns are amped up at least 5km/hr because of the cricket medias and publics obsession with pace, but Ive seen Hatcher hit 148