Cricket Discussion - Part 1

[philreich]

Feeling good about our chances against Pakistan. They've just lost the series 2-0 in NZ, but for much of today a draw looked inevitable. The Pakistanis reached 0 for 131, but then lost 10 for 99.

 

[Grave Danger]

BIG BASH LEAGUE 2016-17 SQUADS:

Adelaide Strikers: Brad Hodge (Captain), Wes Agar, Alex Carey, Jono Dean, Travis Head, Jon Holland, Ben Laughlin, Jake Lehmann, Tim Ludeman, Michael Neser, Kieron Pollard, Adil Rashid, Kane Richardson, Craig Simmons, Kelvin Smith, Billy Stanlake, Jake Weatherald.

Brisbane Heat: Chris Lynn (Captain), Samuel Badree, Joe Burns, Ben Cutting, Alex Doolan, Andrew Fekete, Luke Feldman, Jason Floros, Sam Heazlett, Marnus Labuschagne, Josh Lalor, Brendon McCullum, James Peirson, Nathan Reardon, Alex Ross, Mark Steketee, Mitchell Swepson, Jack Wildermuth.

Hobart Hurricanes: George Bailey, Cameron Boyce, Stuart Broad, Dan Christian, Hamish Kingston, Ben McDermott, Dom Michael, Simon Milenko, Tim Paine, Sam Rainbird, Jake Reed, Clive Rose, Kumar Sangakkara, Shaun Tait, Jonathan Wells,

Melbourne Renegades: Aaron Finch (Captain), Dwayne Bravo, Tom Beaton, Tom Cooper, Xavier Doherty, Callum Ferguson, Marcus Harris, Brad Hogg, Sunil Narine, Peter Nevill, James Pattinson, Nathan Rimmington, Peter Siddle, Chris Tremain, Matthew Wade, Guy Walker, Cameron White, Nick Winter.

Melbourne Stars: David Hussey (Captain), Michael Beer, Scott Boland, James Faulkner, Seb Gotch, Evan Gulbis, Peter Handscomb, Sam Harper, John Hastings, Ben Hilfenhaus, Glenn Maxwell, Kevin Pietersen, Rob Quiney, Marcus Stoinis, Tom Triffit, Daniel Worrall, Luke Wright, Adam Zampa.

Perth Scorchers: Ashton Agar, Cameron Bancroft, Jason Behrendorff, Ian Bell, Hilton Cartwright, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Mitchell Johnson, Michael Klinger, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh, James Muirhead, Joel Paris, Jhye Richardson, Ashton Turner, Andrew Tye, Adam Voges (Captain), Sam Whiteman, David Willey.

Sydney Sixers: Moises Henriques (Captain), Sean Abbott, Sam Billings, Jackson Bird, Doug Bollinger, Johan Botha, Ryan Carters, Ben Dwarshuis, Brad Haddin, Josh Hazlewood, Daniel Hughes, Nic Maddinson, Joe Mennie, Nathan Lyon, Steve O’Keefe, Jordan Silk, Mitch Starc.

Sydney Thunder: Shane Watson (Captain), Fawad Ahmed, Aiden Blizzard, Pat Cummins, Jake Doran, Ryan Gibson, Chris Green, Usman Khawaja, Nathan McAndrew, Alister McDermott, Clint McKay, Arjun Nair, Kurtis Patterson, Ben Rohrer, Andre Russell, Gurinder Sandhu, Jason Sangha.

http://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/cr...n/news-story/91a01c4446a67ec3e8c85ef952f8fc8b

 

[Garibaldi Red]

BIG BASH LEAGUE 2016-17 SQUADS:

Adelaide Strikers: Brad Hodge (Captain), Wes Agar, Alex Carey, Jono Dean, Travis Head, Jon Holland, Ben Laughlin, Jake Lehmann, Tim Ludeman, Michael Neser, Kieron Pollard, Adil Rashid, Kane Richardson, Craig Simmons, Kelvin Smith, Billy Stanlake, Jake Weatherald.


http://www.perthnow.com.au/sport/cr...n/news-story/91a01c4446a67ec3e8c85ef952f8fc8b

 

[philreich]

Strikers captain Brad Hodge told the media today, "We like to model ourselves on the Adelaide Crows. Like us they're famous for crashing out at the semi final stage."

 

[Grave Danger]

Strikers captain Brad Hodge told the media today, "We like to model ourselves on the Adelaide Crows. Like us they're famous for crashing out at the semi final stage."

#wecollapseasone

 

[philreich]

#wecollapseasone

It's why they're called the Strikers - they go on strike before the final.

 

[Greasyrhys]

Meh, who gives a toss about the BBBL

 

[Greasyrhys]

Nice 50 to Head & hundred by Smith

 

[LukeSA]

****ing Smith, top captain's knock.

 

[Rising Power]

Mark Waugh's boy Maddinson all but certain to remain for the next Test, currently on 57. Line up will go unchanged unless he or any others have a string of single figure scores in the ODI's and BBL...or injury.

 

[LukeSA]

Zampa a bit unlucky to be dropped imo, i thought the ones needed to be dropped were Finch and Cummins.

 

[philreich]

Zampa a bit unlucky to be dropped imo, i thought the ones needed to be dropped were Finch and Cummins.

Looks as if dropping somebody named Ferguson after 1 game isn't just limited to Australia: the Kiwis did the same thing today.

 

[John the Butcher]

Blocker Wilson
Trav Head

 

[Hellgood]

Mitch Marsh

This year Mitch Marsh has scored 642 runs at 45.85 and a strike rate of 96 with one century and four 50s.

Even if you ignore his bowling he wouldn't be in danger of getting dropped

 

[mic59]

Looks as if dropping somebody named Ferguson after 1 game isn't just limited to Australia: the Kiwis did the same thing today.

But I can understand dropping the NZ Ferguson, without the runs scored from free hits the Kiwis would have been in the game for much longer and could even have won. Callum had two bad innings in a test which happens. There was no good reason to drop him for that.

 

[mic59]

NSW 112 ahead but 7 wickets down. Lyon has just come in, SA need to make sure they don't give him the chances that they did in the first innings or these last three wickets could add 100-150 and set SA a fair task.

EDIT : Lyon out for a duck. NSW 8/80.

Now 9/82 = 115 ahead. At the moment we're about 34 overs into the third day so it looks like yet another 3-day Sheffield Shield game coming up.

 

[mic59]

NSW all out for 87. Sayers 5/27, Richardson 3/23. 5 ducks. 70 runs scored by two NSW players(Cowan 45 and Carters 25).

 

[Greasyrhys]

God I hope we can win this!!!

 

[LukeSA]

NSW That's a redbacksesque collapse... but we still have to make the runs.

 

[mic59]

2/30 isn't a good start but the chase is only 121. And the first innings score after the second wicket fell was 58 so SA aren't that much worse off.

 

[LukeSA]

2/30 isn't a good start but the chase is only 121. And the first innings score after the second wicket fell was 58 so SA aren't that much worse off.

3/48 now.

 

[Greasyrhys]

Who the hell is this stobo guy that's taken 3 wickets for N$W?

Really there's no need for our batsmen to panic

 

[mic59]

3/48 now.

4/48. Just when the team gets to a position where all they need is for the next two partnerships to be 30 each, they can't even do that. At least the last 5 wickets added 93 in the first innings and Cooper and Carey have been batting well.
The number of times we have lost wickets just before breaks doesn't bear thinking about. 2 wickets in the three balls just before dinner. It's obviously mental as it doesn't just happen to us.

 

[LukeSA]

Deadbacks... the only team that can blow a 112 run chase.

 

[Greasyrhys]

Now 5/49, game over now