Sheffield Shield Round 1: South Australia vs New South Wales @ Adelaide Oval

[eth-dog]

Rain affecting the start, neither team has been announced as of yet.

Squads (in what I think will be the batting order):

SA: McInerney, Weatherald, Ferguson, Lehmann (c), Cooper, Nielson (+), Valente, Mennie, Richardson, Pope, Sayers, Winter
NSW: Hughes, Larkin, Patterson, Henriques, J Edwards, Sangha, Nevill (c, +), Sams, O'Keefe, Copeland, Abbott, M Edwards

Surprised Haze and Cummins aren't playing.

 

[corbies]

Rain affecting the start, neither team has been announced as of yet.

Squads (in what I think will be the batting order):

SA: McInerney, Weatherald, Ferguson, Lehmann (c), Cooper, Nielson (+), Valente, Mennie, Richardson, Pope, Sayers, Winter
NSW: Hughes, Larkin, Patterson, Henriques, J Edwards, Sangha, Nevill (c, +), Sams, O'Keefe, Copeland, Abbott, M Edwards

Surprised Haze and Cummins aren't playing.

Hazelwood and Cummins are playing futures league so they can cap their overs without effecting the shield.

 

[eth-dog]

Hazelwood and Cummins are playing futures league so they can cap their overs without effecting the shield.

Ah, fair enough. Expect them to play vs Victoria.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Covers coming off finally

The commentators were on briefly and said that Peter McIntyre presented Lloyd Pope with his cap this morning

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Covers back on

I'm used to Redbacks' seasons finishing with an anticlimax, but not starting that way

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

I live about 5km from Adelaide Oval and it hasn't rained here since 8am. Makes it hard to understand what's going on at Adelaide Oval. Surely any surface water would have been removed by now.

 

[Aussie_boy]

Just make it a 3 day game, still enough time for a couple of Redbacks collapses. I am pretty surprised they haven't bowled a ball yet though, been fairly dry albeit overcast for the last couple of hours.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Just make it a 3 day game, still enough time for a couple of Redbacks collapses. I am pretty surprised they haven't bowled a ball yet though, been fairly dry albeit overcast for the last couple of hours.

It keeps drizzling

Every time they get the covers off and pick a start/toss time it rains and the covers come back on

Redbacks have won the toss, bowling first, however full square covers are back on again. Frustrating day.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

It keeps drizzling

Every time they get the covers off and pick a start/toss time it rains and the covers come back on

Redbacks have won the toss, bowling first, however full square covers are back on again. Frustrating day.

So they still have the rule that you cannot start in conditions you would normally play through?

 

[eth-dog]

So they still have the rule that you cannot start in conditions you would normally play through?

It's a law of cricket, annoying as it may be.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Covers off again. This is at least the 4th time

 

[eth-dog]

So Richo doesn't get picked. Looking forward to watching Jack Edwards next week hopefully. Sangha a good selection, he's a leggie right?

 

[Aussie_boy]

So Richo doesn't get picked. Looking forward to watching Jack Edwards next week hopefully. Sangha a good selection, he's a leggie right?

Sangha is a batsman

 

[eth-dog]

Sangha is a batsman

All rounder I thought.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Covers back on... and now coming off.

Getting ridiculous. Need to soldier on through one of these showers and let it pass rather than getting all the tractors and hessians and everything else back out there which takes forever to get off

 

[grimlock]

Finally Abbott at 11

 

[Aussie_boy]

Finally Abbott at 11

Really? LOL

No doubt the commentators will say NSW bat deep because of this though.

 

[Aussie_boy]

Seriously just give up, this is frustrating me and I'm not a player or groundsman.

 

[grimlock]

Really? LOL

No doubt the commentators will say NSW bat deep because of this though.

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Seriously just give up, this is frustrating me and I'm not a player or groundsman.

It has hardly rained in Adelaide today, and they're in danger of missing an entire day's cricket. They've painted themselves into a corner here because the weather tomorrow will be exactly the same as today. I can't believe a tiny bit of drizzle could potentially wipe out 2 days of cricket.

And yes, I am aware they are the rules .... rules that need to be changed.

 

[grimlock]

 

[Aussie_boy]

To be fair that's an elite tail. All capable of batting 8 (apart from Abbott obviously).

 

[Aussie_boy]

We have Cricket

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

That was perilously close to lbw. Maybe just outside the line.

Hoping Winter starts the season well and can get the Kookaburra to swing

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

And again!

Very close. Sayers this time.