Australian Domestic Season 2016/2017

[bennymacca]

keeping it in school holidays but pushing it back to january could work.

[Lightning McQueen]

keeping it in school holidays but pushing it back to january could work.

With the time zone differences etc. they could have two matches on the same day to compact the season.

[The Dark Knight]

Redbacks seemed barely to get out of 2nd gear after Christmas, yet still made the Shield Final. A reasonable year really and you would expect this group to take out a Shield title while Sayers is leading the attack. Carey the big improver this year. Maybe worth batting him a bit higher up the order?

Batting group was poor against the Duke balls. Individuals had moments after Christmas but didn't really nail too many games and opportunities given to them by our bowlers.

Carey must bat higher. Has the opportunity to play at Australian Level, can't have him being wasted down at 7,stuck batting with tail most games. Must bat in top 6 and give him every chance to perform. Wade and Neville bat 5 and he's a better bat then Wade.

Agreed. Safe to say Carey is now number three in the pecking order behind Wade and Nevill?

[The Angry Bull]

Redbacks seemed barely to get out of 2nd gear after Christmas, yet still made the Shield Final. A reasonable year really and you would expect this group to take out a Shield title while Sayers is leading the attack. Carey the big improver this year. Maybe worth batting him a bit higher up the order?

Batting group was poor against the Duke balls. Individuals had moments after Christmas but didn't really nail too many games and opportunities given to them by our bowlers.

Carey must bat higher. Has the opportunity to play at Australian Level, can't have him being wasted down at 7,stuck batting with tail most games. Must bat in top 6 and give him every chance to perform. Wade and Neville bat 5 and he's a better bat then Wade.

granted that i think carey is a much better batting option than Manou, however, if i recall correctly we went from 3rd the season to dead last with Manou trying to bat himself at 1,2 or 3 the following year ina bid to get a gig to the 2009 ashes. Hartley has still been able to make a shite load of runs from 7. whilst it would be great to see carey don the baggy green, he must bat where he fits in for the team and not in a position purely based on a bid to get him thrust into the Australian side

[Lightning McQueen]

Redbacks seemed barely to get out of 2nd gear after Christmas, yet still made the Shield Final. A reasonable year really and you would expect this group to take out a Shield title while Sayers is leading the attack. Carey the big improver this year. Maybe worth batting him a bit higher up the order?

Batting group was poor against the Duke balls. Individuals had moments after Christmas but didn't really nail too many games and opportunities given to them by our bowlers.

Carey must bat higher. Has the opportunity to play at Australian Level, can't have him being wasted down at 7,stuck batting with tail most games. Must bat in top 6 and give him every chance to perform. Wade and Neville bat 5 and he's a better bat then Wade.

Having Mennie, Zampa, Sayers and whoever else as Jack I don't think our tail is too shabby, it's our top order that generally let us down.

[helicopterking]

Redbacks seemed barely to get out of 2nd gear after Christmas, yet still made the Shield Final. A reasonable year really and you would expect this group to take out a Shield title while Sayers is leading the attack. Carey the big improver this year. Maybe worth batting him a bit higher up the order?

Batting group was poor against the Duke balls. Individuals had moments after Christmas but didn't really nail too many games and opportunities given to them by our bowlers.

Carey must bat higher. Has the opportunity to play at Australian Level, can't have him being wasted down at 7,stuck batting with tail most games. Must bat in top 6 and give him every chance to perform. Wade and Neville bat 5 and he's a better bat then Wade.

granted that i think carey is a much better batting option than Manou, however, if i recall correctly we went from 3rd the season to dead last with Manou trying to bat himself at 1,2 or 3 the following year ina bid to get a gig to the 2009 ashes. Hartley has still been able to make a shite load of runs from 7. whilst it would be great to see carey don the baggy green, he must bat where he fits in for the team and not in a position purely based on a bid to get him thrust into the Australian side

Carey is one of Grade Crickets best opening batsmen. I'm sure his position at 7 is solely based on workload and not ability. Fair enough this season, why he finds his feet, batting at 7 is fine. But next season he deserves a promotion up the order, if it doesn't work, you lower him back down the order.
Hartley will be one of the best keepers never to have played for Australia, he batted at 7 and never got a gig.

[The Angry Bull]

Redbacks seemed barely to get out of 2nd gear after Christmas, yet still made the Shield Final. A reasonable year really and you would expect this group to take out a Shield title while Sayers is leading the attack. Carey the big improver this year. Maybe worth batting him a bit higher up the order?

Batting group was poor against the Duke balls. Individuals had moments after Christmas but didn't really nail too many games and opportunities given to them by our bowlers.

Carey must bat higher. Has the opportunity to play at Australian Level, can't have him being wasted down at 7,stuck batting with tail most games. Must bat in top 6 and give him every chance to perform. Wade and Neville bat 5 and he's a better bat then Wade.

granted that i think carey is a much better batting option than Manou, however, if i recall correctly we went from 3rd the season to dead last with Manou trying to bat himself at 1,2 or 3 the following year ina bid to get a gig to the 2009 ashes. Hartley has still been able to make a shite load of runs from 7. whilst it would be great to see carey don the baggy green, he must bat where he fits in for the team and not in a position purely based on a bid to get him thrust into the Australian side

Carey is one of Grade Crickets best opening batsmen. I'm sure his position at 7 is solely based on workload and not ability. Fair enough this season, why he finds his feet, batting at 7 is fine. But next season he deserves a promotion up the order, if it doesn't work, you lower him back down the order.
Hartley will be one of the best keepers never to have played for Australia, he batted at 7 and never got a gig.

he couldn't have done any worse than the efforts put out by our 3,4 and 5 lately

[bennymacca]

how many test keepers since gilchrist have batted at 7? off the top of my head i cant think of one (besides manou but he doesnt really count)

[amber_fluid]

Good to see Head make a duck when it counted yet again but makes a ton when the game is all but lost!!
And people think he should have gone to India!!! Bahahaha

Agree that he's not deserving of a Test cap yet (Even if they have gifted out a few to others in recent times) but the duck in the 1st innings was the result of a SHITHOUSE LBW decision from a ball that spun about 2 feet out of the footmarks so pretty hard to be critical i would have thought.

Wasn't a great decision the LBW but from memory he made 1 run in last years final in the 2nd innings when the game was in the balance.
As Captain he needs to do more when it matters IMO.

[Grenville]

Redbacks seemed barely to get out of 2nd gear after Christmas, yet still made the Shield Final. A reasonable year really and you would expect this group to take out a Shield title while Sayers is leading the attack. Carey the big improver this year. Maybe worth batting him a bit higher up the order?

Batting group was poor against the Duke balls. Individuals had moments after Christmas but didn't really nail too many games and opportunities given to them by our bowlers.

Carey must bat higher. Has the opportunity to play at Australian Level, can't have him being wasted down at 7,stuck batting with tail most games. Must bat in top 6 and give him every chance to perform. Wade and Neville bat 5 and he's a better bat then Wade.

granted that i think carey is a much better batting option than Manou, however, if i recall correctly we went from 3rd the season to dead last with Manou trying to bat himself at 1,2 or 3 the following year ina bid to get a gig to the 2009 ashes. Hartley has still been able to make a shite load of runs from 7. whilst it would be great to see carey don the baggy green, he must bat where he fits in for the team and not in a position purely based on a bid to get him thrust into the Australian side

Carey is one of Grade Crickets best opening batsmen. I'm sure his position at 7 is solely based on workload and not ability. Fair enough this season, why he finds his feet, batting at 7 is fine. But next season he deserves a promotion up the order, if it doesn't work, you lower him back down the order.
Hartley will be one of the best keepers never to have played for Australia, he batted at 7 and never got a gig.

Hartley has been the best gloveman in Australia for some time. Very much in the mould of a Steve Rixon, quality keeper and gritty bat (Hartley is a better bat though). Never had the profile of Brad Haddin, but could've ended up with an Ian Healy batting average and was always a far,far superior gloveman than Haddin.

[The Dark Knight]

State Players of the season-
SA- Chadd Sayers
NSW- Ed Cowan
WA- Hilton Cartwright
Victoria- Jon Holland

[helicopterking]

O'Keefe fined $20k and suspended from whole 2017 Matador Cup for making highly inappropriate Alcohol fuelled comments at Cricket NSW function.
Would love to know what he said because that's a fair whack.

[heater31]

O'Keefe fined $20k and suspended from whole 2017 Matador Cup for making highly inappropriate Alcohol fuelled comments at Cricket NSW function.
Would love to know what he said because that's a fair whack.

That's the 2nd alcohol related incident in 12 months for him I think....

[Lightning McQueen]

O'Keefe fined $20k and suspended from whole 2017 Matador Cup for making highly inappropriate Alcohol fuelled comments at Cricket NSW function.
Would love to know what he said because that's a fair whack.

That's the 2nd alcohol related incident in 12 months for him I think....

Yep, the other was a $10K fine for being a drunken dickhead in a pub, he promised 6 months of sobriety after that, I guess his 6 months were up.

[am Bays]

"Nice one SOKie Boy....."

[Lightning McQueen]

I guess we'll now see a spate of drunken tirades from players trying to get out of the Matador Cup.

[The Dark Knight]

State Players of the season-
SA- Chadd Sayers
NSW- Ed Cowan
WA- Hilton Cartwright
Victoria- Jon Holland

Tasmania- Alex Doolan
Queensland- Michael Neser

[Gozu]

Ryan Carters has announced his retirement from cricket to focus on studying and running his charity.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/cricket/ns ... b09f4948ea

[am Bays]

Carey must bat higher. Has the opportunity to play at Australian Level, can't have him being wasted down at 7,stuck batting with tail most games. Must bat in top 6 and give him every chance to perform. Wade and Neville bat 5 and he's a better bat then Wade.

granted that i think carey is a much better batting option than Manou, however, if i recall correctly we went from 3rd the season to dead last with Manou trying to bat himself at 1,2 or 3 the following year ina bid to get a gig to the 2009 ashes. Hartley has still been able to make a shite load of runs from 7. whilst it would be great to see carey don the baggy green, he must bat where he fits in for the team and not in a position purely based on a bid to get him thrust into the Australian side

Carey is one of Grade Crickets best opening batsmen. I'm sure his position at 7 is solely based on workload and not ability. Fair enough this season, why he finds his feet, batting at 7 is fine. But next season he deserves a promotion up the order, if it doesn't work, you lower him back down the order.
Hartley will be one of the best keepers never to have played for Australia, he batted at 7 and never got a gig.

Hartley has been the best gloveman in Australia for some time. Very much in the mould of a Steve Rixon, quality keeper and gritty bat (Hartley is a better bat though). Never had the profile of Brad Haddin, but could've ended up with an Ian Healy batting average and was always a far,far superior gloveman than Haddin.

And has been named in both the Australian A teams to tour Seth Efrica in JUly: http://www.cricket.com.au/news/australia-a-squad-south-africa-khawaja-maxwell-head-cartwright-agar-bancroft/2017-05-19

Only full time 'keeper named (Bancroft has kept in T20s for Aust)

[The Bedge]

"With an upcoming Test Series in South Africa early next year it is also an opportunity to impress with their performances and put their names forward for consideration.”

Turn it up, some blokes could have outstanding tours and unless they're a CA poster boy they aint getting a look in.