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Oct 17 2007
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first week state round up

Sound up from the first week of state cricket in Australia

Queensland (new texas) v Tasmania

Qld really let themselves down with this one, Tassie and Victoria are always susceptible early in the season up north. early on it looked like Noffke with his 5 wickets then his amazing century was going to win the game on his own. Then Michael Di Venuto stepped up, he batted for a day and a half making 178 and dragging Tasmania to a draw they didn’t deserve.

The balls: When you get a good team on the ropes you have to finish them, Queensland really need the out right here, but in the second dig, when the wicket was flatter they struggled. According to Big daddy Noffke will be playing for Australia soon. I don’t think so.

Victoria v South Australia

This wasn’t a game. For the redbacks (sa) it was more like they were caught naked in their backyard with a tub of margarine. David Hussey smote them, Wade withstood them, Nannes, Siddle and Denton cut them down. Jason Gillespie top scored in both innings (with 18 in the second dig of 77). The redbacks bowling was fine, they were beaten by a good batting line up. Hussey made 176 for the game for one out. Their batting is shit house, I’m talking battlefield earth bad. Gillespie and Elliott were the only batsmen to provide résistance, and they are both over 30. For the bushrangers (vics) their no name bowling line up was pretty damn good again

The balls: The Vics are a damn good team, the redbacks are not, and they have the welt marks on their ass to prove it. David Hussey best number 4 in the country? Ponder that mofo’s.

Western Australia v New South Wales

Damn I hate New South Wales, the minute I finished writing they were shit they come out and shit all over the warriors (wa). The blues (nsw) look crap on paper, and they struggled early on. They were only saved by a hundred by of all people Matthew Nicholson who is look spritely for an 83 year old. From that century onwards this was the blues game. Their quicks destroyed the warriors, then Jacques went in and won the opening slot for Australia. In the second dig for the warriors they fell apart again, with the oldest young man on the planet, Bollinger, getting a five for.

The balls: How shit are the warriors? Pretty shit. How good are the blues? Who knows. Has Jacques done enough to start at the top of the order for the Aussies, you’d say so.

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Oct 15 2007
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Gilly's back up

Now another wicketkeeper has jumped into calculations into the “I don’t want haddin to take over from Gilly debate” I started with myself.

Wade from Victoria, who jumped over Crosthwaite into the Sheffield shield side, made 83 in his debut innings for Victoria today.

So my list for replacing Gilly is as follows

1. Tim Paine
2. Luke Ronchi
3. Matthew Wade
4. Chris Hartley
5. Brad Haddin

That is the test list. The one day list is.

1. Luke Ronchi
2. Adam Crosthwaite
3. Tim Paine
4. Chris Hartley
5. Brad Haddin

Tomorrow wait for my list to change.

Only 2 years to go before Gilly leaves, so I need to convince the selectors early.

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Oct 15 2007
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Gilly’s back up

Now another wicketkeeper has jumped into calculations into the “I don’t want haddin to take over from Gilly debate” I started with myself.

Wade from Victoria, who jumped over Crosthwaite into the Sheffield shield side, made 83 in his debut innings for Victoria today.

So my list for replacing Gilly is as follows

1. Tim Paine
2. Luke Ronchi
3. Matthew Wade
4. Chris Hartley
5. Brad Haddin

That is the test list. The one day list is.

1. Luke Ronchi
2. Adam Crosthwaite
3. Tim Paine
4. Chris Hartley
5. Brad Haddin

Tomorrow wait for my list to change.

Only 2 years to go before Gilly leaves, so I need to convince the selectors early.

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Oct 11 2007
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victorian bushrangers

final state round up

My final wrap up of the Australian state teams, lucky there is only 6 teams.

Victoria –

My boys. I’ve been a fan of Victorian cricket since Dean Jones was humble, but lets put that aside. It will be a bit more in depth however, cause I see them more often and I actually knew one of the squad members when he was a little fella (but I’m not gonna mention him till he becomes famous and then I can cash in on him).

Victorians look good. They seem to breed an amazing amount of fast bowlers who trouble batsmen, mind you they need to be as they used 9 last year and Alan Wise never played a game. They have the best captain in Australia. Because they are Victoria they have 2 quality all rounders, which gives any side a huge boost and flexibility in selection.

Their batting is a host of no names. Mind you outside of Western Australia it’s the strongest. David Hussey is a superstar, would be batting first drop for India, South Africa or England right now. Problem is Ponting bats there, and the line for batting spots in the Australian middle order is long. Blizzard, Mash and Quiney all look like they can play. Opening will be interesting, Nick Jewell (son of a Aussie rules legend) and Klinger (flying the flag for Jewish cricketers are still the biggest weakness in my mind. If they become strong, then Victoria becomes very dangerous. Brad Hodge could be a huge bonus for them, cause they way he is batting in India he may be wearing the navy blue cap soon.

Cameron White seems to have forgotten about bowling, and this can only help his batting, which is already damn good. If Andrew McDonald can get himself fit he could leap frog Butterworth, Hopes and any other all rounder out there. His bowling looks so pedestrian, but how many wickets does this red nob get. The keeper is interesting, not two years ago Adam Crosthwaite was going to take over from Adam Gilchrist. Now he has been dropped from the Victorian side for a Tasmanian who left Hobart because he realises that Tim Paine is a freak. Wade his name is, lets see how he flies.

Bowling is strength of Victoria. Has been for a long time. Hughes, Reiffel, Warne, Fleming, and Harvey had careers that over lapped. These days it’s the no name players, Harwood, Denton, Lewis, Wise, Nannes, Pattinson and McKay that rule the roost. That’s a deep line up, add McDonald and White and you have 6 bowlers who can take wickets lining up in every game. The spinner is interesting, McGain has been picked for the first game, and he’s 35. What a shame Victoria can’t offer Warne a few suitcases full of cash to play like Hampshire can.

The rub is simple, if they can keep fit fast bowlers on the park, if the openers can set up Hussey and the middle order, they can shake Tassie. If the openers fail, the middle order is exposed and the fast bowlers all spend time in the Bruce Reid clinic it’ll be another almost year. Likely finish 1-3.

Western Australia –

Don’t let the test match standard batting line up fool you. They were massive under performers lat year. Edmondson and Magoffin have to take about 12 wickets a game for this side leapfrog Victoria or Queensland into the final.

The batting is sexier than watching Angelina and Beyonce together. Langer, North, Rogers, Voges, Marsh, and Ronchi. Wow. Not mentioning the 2 on national duty, Gilchrist and Michael Hussey. Do I even need to break down their batting? Their only problem is if Rogers replaces Langer, but they probably have 3 guys who can replace him anyway.

Bowling is their concern. Hogg has never taken wickets domestically. Edmondson and Maggoffin are two very handy new ball bowlers. They won’t take 20 wickets a game though will they. It worries me that Innes is still contracted for WA, it seems to be a stagnant ground for fast bowlers these days. Dennis Lillee must be rolling in grave (shoe ads).

The rub is that unless they can take 20 wickets a game, they wont win enough games outright, and they wont get enough points make the final. Likely 4-6.

So my final results is

Tasmania (winner)
Victoria
Queensland
Western Australia
South Australia
New South Wales

Wonder what Marilyn would think of all this.

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Sep 21 2007
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the aussie all round dilemma

I’m not sure what I can legally say on a blog, but I feel its time to test the boundaries.

I think the Australia selectors need to put the screen around Shane Watson, go get the shotgun and put the boy out of his misery.

This has nothing to do with talent, or the fact he comes from Queensland. This is all about Australian cricket. There is no doubt that without the great workhorses of McGrath, Warne and Gillespie the Australian team needs an all rounder.

Andrew Symonds is a band-aid, I love the bloke, (he won us a world cup) but his bowling is no where near the standard of test cricket, and his batting is yet to live up to his amazing record in one day cricket. He simply is not a test match all rounder, he may still become a test match batsmen, but as a fifth bowler he is on the wrong side of Steve Waugh.

So this leaves us with two options. Keep playing Shane Watson, even though its clear his body is built out of Bruce Reid plywood, or bite the bullet and try the options in state cricket.

James Hopes is something. In the words of Bert Newton, I like the boy. I can already see what his problem is going to be, he’s a little too Ian Harvey. He bowls good enough to be a more than handy 5th bowler, and he bats well enough to be a really handy number 7 or a shit hot number 8. But Australia wants a number six or a fourth bowler, this isn’t South Africa after all.

His first class averages (bat 32, ball 36) aren’t really all that exciting, but he hasn’t gone to England to prop up his average like every other Australian hopeful has. He has earnt his averages in the toughest domestic competition in the world. And he has played in the best team in that comp, behind all rounders like Shane Watson and Andy Bichel.

I’m not saying playing him isn’t a risk, but he is probably 6 years younger than Symonds (I couldn’t be bothered looking it up) and is worth a shot. Hopes is in Pakistan at the moment, playing for Australia A, he is taking wickets and making hundreds (one hundred actually).
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Also in state cricket is Cameron White, the prodigal son. He will either be Australia’s next captain, or a big hitting batsman who never quite worked out how to get batsmen out. I am sure that if he lived in any other country in the world he would be playing test cricket already, and probably captaining half of them (and doing a better job).

To get into the Australian team you need to excel in one discipline, and Cameron White’s batting has him in the queue, but not at the front of it, His bowling is the real worry, when he first came onto the scene he was difficult to get away, bowled a great line and always chipped in with good wickets. Now his bowling seems to be stumbling down the wrong dark alley after midnight.

The last option is a left of field choice, but that’s why I like it. Throw in this Luke Butterworth chap from Tassie. Rick (Ricky) likes him (more than I can say about his relationship with White), he won a Sheffield pura cup shield on his own. He has the added bonus of actually being young.

He has only played 5 first class matches, but if I think back guys like Warne and McGrath were picked from obscurity and they seemed to turn out ok. If you don’t count the drugs, extra marital sex, and offcourse McGrath’s shit house hair cut.

Enough of these 32 year old proboters who have been bullying flaccid English attacks in their off season for years. Lets put a 23 year old with obvious talent who wins big games on his own, into the mother fucking side. Also it would be nice to have a Tasmanian in the Australian side again. Lets not pretend Rick (Ricky) is still a Tasmanian.

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