State Victoria - The Mighty Bushrangers

[Drunkcat]

If any bowler in district cricket goes alright they will get a game this year

 

[Perty4]

Yes, although equally any team that doesn't get maximum points against SA will be rueing that
I think you'll be ok this year. Harris/Pucovski going for 1 spot, so you'll have one of them full time.
Sutherland, Boland and if Pattinson plays, that's enough plus Holland for a decent enough attack.

 

[eth-dog]

If we lose Puck to Australia the XI should be something like:

Harris
Dean
Maddinson
Handscomb
Short
Gotch
Sutherland
Pattinson
Parker
Holland
Boland

 

[eddiesmith]

But we don’t play any Shield games during the test series?

 

[eth-dog]

But we don’t play any Shield games during the test series?

Tour of SA though

 

[eddiesmith]

So looks like we drew the short straw, no return game against South Australia and we’ll end up playing away in every state

 

[eth-dog]

2 games at the MCG, 1 at Junction

Queensland, Tassie, Queensland, NSW, Tassie, NSW, WA

So 9 games. Yeah, it sucks that we don't get SA twice but we can still comfortably make the final from here if we can get 4 games from Patto

 

[eddiesmith]

2 games at the MCG, 1 at Junction

Queensland, Tassie, Queensland, NSW, Tassie, NSW, WA

So 9 games. Yeah, it sucks that we don't get SA twice but we can still comfortably make the final from here if we can get 4 games from Patto

Depends when the tour of SA is and whether he dumps us for the IPL. Apparently the NZ tour and SA tour are at the sa e time so goodbye Patto, Finch, Maxwell possibly Handscomb, maybe Harris, definitely Puckovski

One things for sure he probably won’t be playing any one dayers if we want him playing shield

 

[eth-dog]

Depends when the tour of SA is and whether he dumps us for the IPL. Apparently the NZ tour and SA tour are at the sa e time so goodbye Patto, Finch, Maxwell possibly Handscomb, maybe Harris, definitely Puckovski

One things for sure he probably won’t be playing any one dayers if we want him playing shield

Patto the biggest loss of that group. If we lose all of them (Handscomb will play the NZ tour):

Dean
??? (Vines? Merlo?)
Maddinson
Gotch (c)
Short
Sutherland
Harper (+)
Parker
Perry
Holland
Boland

 

[eddiesmith]

Patto the biggest loss of that group. If we lose all of them (Handscomb will play the NZ tour):

Dean
??? (Vines? Merlo?)
Maddinson
Gotch (c)
Short
Sutherland
Harper (+)
Parker
Perry
Holland
Boland

Hopefully that’s when we play the two games v NSW as they’ll probably be missing 15 players!!!

 

[year of the roo]

Surely we can have Finch, Maxwell and Patto for that shield game Feb 12-15. Aus T20 game in NZ not for another week.

 

[eth-dog]

Surely we can have Finch, Maxwell and Patto for that shield game Feb 12-15. Aus T20 game in NZ not for another week.

Depends on quarantine conditions. And Patto will be in SA

 

[Art Vandelay_]

 

[eth-dog]

Okay, so in my head, these are probably the two Aussie squads for SA/NZ, if they go:

Test:

Batsmen: Will Pucovski, David Warner, Marcus Harris, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Matthew Wade, Cameron Green, Tim Paine, Travis Head, Moises Henriques
Bowlers: Mitchell Starc, Patrick Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, James Pattinson, Michael Neser, Jhye Richardson, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Swepson

T20I:

Batsmen: Aaron Finch, D'Arcy Short, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Ben McDermott, Josh Philippe, Alex Carey, Mitchell Marsh, Ashton Agar
Bowlers: Daniel Sams, Riley Meredith, Sean Abbott, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa, Nathan Ellis

Which would leave us with something akin to:

1. Matthew Short
2. Travis Dean
3. Nic Maddinson
4. Peter Handscomb (c)
5. Jake Fraser-McGurk
6. Seb Gotch (+)
7. Will Sutherland
8. Wil Parker
9. Mitchell Perry
10. Jon Holland
11. Scott Boland

With guys like Brayden Stepien, Sam Harper, Jonathon Merlo and James Seymour as the reserve batsmen, and guys like Zak Evans, Jack Prestwidge, Xavier Crone and Ejaaz Alavi as the reserve bowlers. Dean hasn't gone great guns for Footscray yet, keeps getting starts but falling short of 50. JFM got run out on 99 in one of his two digs. I see Queensland going with something like:

1. Bryce Street
2. Joe Burns
3. Usman Khawaja (c)
4. Matthew Renshaw
5. Sam Heazlett
6. Nathan McSweeney
7. Jimmy Peirson (+)
8. Jack Wildermuth
9. Mark Steketee
10. Xavier Bartlett
11. Brendan Doggett

With their reserve bats being Max Bryant, Lachie Pfeffer, Connor Sully and Corey Hunter, bowlers being Matt Kuhnemann, Billy Stanlake, Benji Floros and Matthew Willans.

 

[eddiesmith]

A couple of good hits for the Gades and we might see Harvey getting a crack or atleast in the one dayers

 

[eth-dog]

A couple of good hits for the Gades and we might see Harvey getting a crack or atleast in the one dayers

One Dayers sure, not sure he has the technique for FC cricket

 

[eth-dog]

I hope Prestwidge gets a go in the One Day games. Could be a handy allrounder.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

How much longer until we get the real stuff back?

 

[eddiesmith]

How much longer until we get the real stuff back?

About another two months

 

[eth-dog]

How much longer until we get the real stuff back?

We play on the 12th-15th of Feb as our first game back

 

[Hamez]

There was a game on today between Victorian State Squad XI vs Premier Cricket XI at the Junction Oval.

Scorecard:https://matchcard.frogbox.live/match/1900-3712044/scorecard?period=3411656&video

 

[eth-dog]

Trav is really struggling, isn't he?

 

[Hamez]

Trav is really struggling, isn't he?

Made 32 from 71 yesterday vs Geelong.

 

[eth-dog]

Made 32 from 71 yesterday vs Geelong.

Sheesh. And Geelong don't exactly have a strong attack either

 

[Hamez]

Seymour has been added to the Melbourne Stars squad, whereas Stepien has been added to the Renegades squad.