Sheffield Shield 2020/21

[jargan83]

Good catch from Neville running back with the flight of the ball. Joe Burns gone for 29 - Qld 2/85.

Love having this on TV.

 

[jargan83]

Peach of a delivery from Abbott gets rid of Khawaja, having said that Khawaja probably could have played with a straight bat.

Qld 3/99

 

[hineyrulz]

Lasange honestly needs to be swabbed, two years ago he was Wazn now he is Winx and Black Caviar rolled into one,

 

[TheParraboy]

catch is it?

EDIT Hit the ground

 

[TheParraboy]

SMarsh not out ton
WA 8/258

Well played Sir

 

[hineyrulz]

I f**king hate these awful tactics.


Negative and shit to watch. Copeland going full Wagner.

 

[_snafu_]

Copeland bowling garbage.

 

[hineyrulz]

Labs could play Lyon with a door snake naked on a cobblestone Rd blindfolded at midnight.

 

[_snafu_]

Conway bowling some shit that even I could dispatch to the boundary.

 

[TheParraboy]

Marnus ton, easy peasy for him

Here's hoping he kills India this summer

 

[hineyrulz]

Labs is the next test captain IMO, there i said it.

 

[TheParraboy]

Labs is the next test captain IMO, there i said it.

Why not

If there is some concerns about giving it to Smith after Paine gives it away, then there is no one else really

Do I dare say it, JLs favourite

Spoiler: There may be one other..

The BISON !!!

 

[hineyrulz]

Smith should not get it IMO,and who else is a lock in the side besides Cummins????


Team Labs all the way Peeps.

 

[hineyrulz]

lol Wilderderp out twice in a row.

Gerard Sutton doing a stellar job.

 

[Mr Spock!]

Hope he gets himself sorted, health first especially if its mental


https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...withdraws-victoria-game-mental-health-reasons

South Australia opener Jake Weatherald has withdrawn from Friday's Sheffield Shield clash with Victoria for mental health reasons.

Weatherald opened the season with a century against Western Australia, but SACA Sports Science and Sports Medicine Manager John Porter revealed that Weatherald spoke with the SACA medical team about his mental health following the draw with Tasmania last week.

It was decided that he should time out of the game and leave the Shield hub to focus on his well-being.

"We are supportive of Jake, who has made the tough but right decision to leave the hub and focus on life outside of cricket for a short period," Porter said.

"We are fully supportive of his decision and we'll be keeping in touch with him and providing every support to ensure he is available for selection as soon as possible."

Imagine if these blokes had to face Walsh and Ambrose every week instead of boland and sutherland.

 

[hineyrulz]

Imagine if these blokes had to face Walsh and Ambrose every week instead of boland and sutherland.

Imagine facing Marshall,Garner,Holding and Walsh on a Green top???? AB did and scored 98 and 100no, what a legend.


He'd smoke all these plodders of today.

 

[Haffa]

Good ball from Copeland.

 

[Mr Spock!]

There certainly seems to be a lot more mental fragility especially among batsmen. Is it that they're playing too much cricket?

Look at the last 2 Ashes series out here and the number of English careers ended.

Makes me wonder whose careers will end in tears next ashes here.

 

[hineyrulz]

There certainly seems to be a lot more mental fragility especially among batsmen. Is it that they're playing too much cricket?

Look at the last 2 Ashes series out here and the number of English careers ended.

Makes me wonder whose careers will end in tears next ashes here.

Players used to play all year round back in the day as well,, heaps of players when they weren't touring or playing for their country played county cricket.


There is no such thing as the school of hard knocks anymore, if you show talent by the age of 13 you are shoved in a bubble to have smoke blown up your arse 24/7. It's no surprise the blokes that weren't the junior stars or the blokes who did it tough through the grades are the blokes able to go to the next level.

It's not just cricket it's true for most sports and pretty much true of most younger people these days.

 

[Mr Spock!]

No doubt Kookaburra management were pressurising Cricket Australia after the COVID-19 outbreak to scrap the Dukes ball experiment for the 2020/21 Sheffield Shield season, appealing to emotion in the name of "protecting Australian jobs". They are well aware the quality of their product is inferior to Dukes, and with the ICC ban on saliva, Kookaburra balls would've been made to look even more crap if they were to go head-to-head with Dukes this Shield season under the new playing conditions.

If flat tracks such as what's already been dished up in the early stages of the Shield season are going to continue right over the next few months to the extent where batsmen at #9 can nearly score a century, the Dukes ball would've at least offered something for the bowlers and a more even contest between bat and ball.

Unfortunately, many batsmen this summer are going to inflate their averages quite comfortably once the shine goes off the red Kookaburra ball after 15-20 overs, high-scoring 1st innings drawn matches will increase, and most bowlers will be on a hiding to nothing. You might as well replace them with bowling machines.

I can see old men Anderson and Broad chucking it in during the next ashes after using the kookaburra much like Johnson did when Ross Taylor nearly scored 300 and NZ nearly 800.