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SydCrow said:
only if you also throw in Watson, Cummins and Starc :)
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You can have Watson! Sure, good cricketer, but damn he has to have the worst facial expressions in Australian cricket. The bloke looks like he's permanently sucking on lemons
 
Why is Worrall playing over Richardson? Onedayers sure but he looks like a medium paced plodder - Another Berry Victorian grade cricket favourite. Well done Ferg on a great innings.
 

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NTRabbit said:
Except he wasn't, and Fats McLardington was costing us further in the field.

He's basically our Leigh Brown. Or Des Headland in reverse. Looks pretty flash when he rolls his giant arse out onto the ground with a good team doing all the hard work, but strains under the extra weight when he has to do it himself.
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Unfair. He carried our one-day team for a couple of years. Good player. Bad gut. Should have been retained.
 
moginie said:
No, Haberfield's from Qld.

If we include Kane Richardson, our 12th man, it makes 3.

Something's got to change & it has to start at the grade level.
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The system has been stuffed for many years. Even as a 14 year old playing state cricket, I could tell that there were a lot of problems and they were doing a lot wrong.

For a start if you were a bowler you did nothing but bowl the entire training. Not once did we practice our batting. Luckily I was an opening batsman at club level and got plenty of practice there. But they wonder why SA hasnt had a half-decent allrounder in 15 years. Secondly they picked players on reputation and technique...not on actual ability to score runs. One of the guys that missed out on the squad scored hundred after hundred at club level, and made some big runs in the trial games but becuase he was a bit of a clobberer and didnt quite get his foot far enough across on off drives he missed out. Look at Darren Lehmann. Was one of the best drives going around but his front foot was barely ever near the ball.
 
DangerSloane said:
The system has been stuffed for many years. Even as a 14 year old playing state cricket, I could tell that there were a lot of problems and they were doing a lot wrong.

For a start if you were a bowler you did nothing but bowl the entire training. Not once did we practice our batting. Luckily I was an opening batsman at club level and got plenty of practice there. But they wonder why SA hasnt had a half-decent allrounder in 15 years. Secondly they picked players on reputation and technique...not on actual ability to score runs. One of the guys that missed out on the squad scored hundred after hundred at club level, and made some big runs in the trial games but becuase he was a bit of a clobberer and didnt quite get his foot far enough across on off drives he missed out. Look at Darren Lehmann. Was one of the best drives going around but his front foot was barely ever near the ball.
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You raise some very good points there, especially about the training focus. A particular NSW quick, who was a member of one of the early intakes of the AIS (& therefore playing for an Adelaide grade team) has told me exactly the same thing. It killed him. One of the best left arm quicks of his generation was overbowled & as a result suffered stress fractures to his spine that hindered him for the rest of his disappointingly short career.

It also does make you question what the selection process is. Somebody like Jaimie Panelli, who has been taking wickets consistently at grade level for years, has never had a sniff of state squad selection.

Worrall bowled some really innocuous stuff today & was taken to the cleaners by Cutting. 19 runs off one over spelt the end of our chances of getting first innings points.
 
DangerSloane said:
One of the guys that missed out on the squad scored hundred after hundred at club level, and made some big runs in the trial games but becuase he was a bit of a clobberer and didnt quite get his foot far enough across on off drives he missed out. Look at Darren Lehmann. Was one of the best drives going around but his front foot was barely ever near the ball.
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That wasn't Craig Bradbrook, was it?
 

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LiquidCrow said:
Wow... can't remember the last time the Redbacks took outright points!
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1st win in 20 games, so around 2 years ago :thumbsu:

hopefully just the beginning
 
They are getting better - the plan is coming together.

I'm going to predict they will make the final or finish 3rd this year and then host and win the final next summer.
 

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Sayers & Richardson - SA players flying the flag for SA!

Good to see Travis Head make double figures - a very handy 75.

It will be interesting to see how long they will want Richardson to open the bowling & bat no 3.
 
It would be nice to see Head get a couple of biggish scores together.

all to often the SA batsman have 1 good game followed by 2 average ones.

I can't work out the Richardson thing, not having seen him play that often I didn't realise he was a "all rounder".

I guess the important thing which I hope we are seeing is some mental toughness, that is two games in a row where the players have appeared to have fought out a game rather than the typical redback fold.
 

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