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Redbacks kick off on Tuesday September 24 vs Queensland in a one dayer, then play NSW two days later. Both games in Queensland.

South Australia’s 14-player squad
Jake Lehmann (c)
Wes Agar
Alex Carey
Tom Cooper
Callum Ferguson
Joe Mennie
Harry Nielsen
Lloyd Pope
Luke Robins
Alex Ross
Kane Richardson
Cameron Valente
Jake Weatherald
Adam Zampa

Head rested, Worrall still injured.

Could this finally be our year? Hope springs eternal.

But no.

Out of the Ashes and almost straight into domestic cricket! I already started a 19/20 domestic season topic lol.

So obviously only one of Zampa Pope will play.

Carey
Weatherald
Ferg
Cooper
Nielsen
Ross
Valente
Agar/Robins ?
Richo
Mennie
Zampa

Batting looks week without Head

Armchair expert wrote:So obviously only one of Zampa Pope will play.

Carey
Weatherald
Ferg
Cooper
Nielsen
Ross
Valente
Agar/Robins ?
Richo
Mennie
Zampa

Batting looks week without Head

Not going to play the captain?

The Bedge wrote:

Armchair expert wrote:So obviously only one of Zampa Pope will play.

Carey
Weatherald
Ferg
Cooper
Nielsen
Ross
Valente
Agar/Robins ?
Richo
Mennie
Zampa

Batting looks weak without Head

Not going to play the captain?

Nielsen misses out then

1. Carey (w/k)
2. Weatherald
3. Cooper
4. Ferguson
5. Lehmann
6. Ross
7. Valente
8. Zampa
9. Richardson
10. Mennie
11. Robins

Armchair expert wrote:Nielsen misses out then

Correct, unless they opt to play him as a specialist bat but he's not up to it yet.

Tony Clifton wrote:Redbacks kick off on Tuesday September 24 vs Queensland in a one dayer, then play NSW two days later. Both games in Queensland.

South Australia’s 14-player squad
Jake Lehmann (c)
Wes Agar
Alex Carey
Tom Cooper
Callum Ferguson
Joe Mennie
Harry Nielsen
Lloyd Pope
Luke Robins
Alex Ross
Kane Richardson
Cameron Valente
Jake Weatherald
Adam Zampa

Head rested, Worrall still injured.

Could this finally be our year? Hope springs eternal.

But no.

Anyone feel as though the squad's just too similar to last year? Believe it has the potential to perform but reading the same names as previous years just makes me feel that the let down is on again.

reppoh_eht wrote:Anyone feel as though the squad's just too similar to last year? Believe it has the potential to perform but reading the same names as previous years just makes me feel that the let down is on again.

Yes, i hear ya.. but who else is there?

The Dark Knight wrote:Out of the Ashes and almost straight into domestic cricket! I already started a 19/20 domestic season topic lol.

Whoops!

Missed that sorry

Can the Modetators merge the two threads?

The Bedge wrote:

reppoh_eht wrote:Anyone feel as though the squad's just too similar to last year? Believe it has the potential to perform but reading the same names as previous years just makes me feel that the let down is on again.

Yes, i hear ya.. but who else is there?

Bear?

Would love to be an opener hitting runs early in the shield this year.

Will Khawaja get a chance to open for NSW and try and rejuvenate his test career.

whufc wrote:Would love to be an opener hitting runs early in the shield this year.

Will Khawaja get a chance to open for NSW and try and rejuvenate his test career.

Pfft waste of time, you know Warner has a spot locked, and smart money would be on Bancroft returning for the Aussie Summer.

The Bedge wrote:

whufc wrote:Would love to be an opener hitting runs early in the shield this year.

Will Khawaja get a chance to open for NSW and try and rejuvenate his test career.

Pfft waste of time, you know Warner has a spot locked, and smart money would be on Bancroft returning for the Aussie Summer.

Yeah Warner could be a lock and then it will come down to the opener hitting the most runs you would think.

Renshaw, Bancroft, Harris, Weatherald would have to give themselves a shout at very least.

whufc wrote:

The Bedge wrote:

whufc wrote:Would love to be an opener hitting runs early in the shield this year.

Will Khawaja get a chance to open for NSW and try and rejuvenate his test career.

Pfft waste of time, you know Warner has a spot locked, and smart money would be on Bancroft returning for the Aussie Summer.

Yeah Warner could be a lock and then it will come down to the opener hitting the most runs you would think.

Renshaw, Bancroft, Harris, Weatherald would have to give themselves a shout at very least.

Surely Burns will be in the mix aswell? At least I hope he will be.

One thing is for sure there is plenty of options that could potentially make up the top 6 this summer-
The openers that you mentioned plus Burns,
And middle order players Smith, Labuschagne, Khawaja, Head, Wade, Patterson, S. Marsh, Handscomb, Pucovski just to start with plus others that may surprise us. At least there's some depth there now.

The Dark Knight wrote:

whufc wrote:

The Bedge wrote:

whufc wrote:Would love to be an opener hitting runs early in the shield this year.

Will Khawaja get a chance to open for NSW and try and rejuvenate his test career.

Pfft waste of time, you know Warner has a spot locked, and smart money would be on Bancroft returning for the Aussie Summer.

Yeah Warner could be a lock and then it will come down to the opener hitting the most runs you would think.

Renshaw, Bancroft, Harris, Weatherald would have to give themselves a shout at very least.

Surely Burns will be in the mix aswell? At least I hope he will be.

One thing is for sure there is plenty of options that could potentially make up the top 6 this summer-
The openers that you mentioned plus Burns,
And middle order players Smith, Labuschagne, Khawaja, Head, Wade, Patterson, S. Marsh, Handscomb, Pucovski just to start with plus others that may surprise us. At least there's some depth there now.

Completely forget about Burns. I cant believe he wasn't selected for this series.

Whilst there is depth at this stage it appears a depth of 'average' players, I guess we could hope that the competition for places will lift the standard.

Correct, depth is always interesting.

If you have 5 blokes who are a 6 out of 10, then you have depth.
If you have two blokes who are 9s, and the next best is a 6, then people say you don't have a ready made replacement if one of the two hits a form slump or gets injured.

A lack of talent shouldn't be mistaken for depth.

Bit of a blow for WA with Coulter-Nile and Behrendorff choosing to sit out of SS this year and are instead focussing on purely playing white ball cricket.

Our players turning into West Indian players? Just in for the money?

Brodlach wrote:Our players turning into West Indian players? Just in for the money?

Seems that way.
T20 WC early next year aswell so they have probably decided they will never play tests so it’s not worth the effort playing SS