Australian white-ball tour of Scotland and England, September 2024

[Plugger35]

They should be playing some Proclaimers there.

 

[Plugger35]

McMullen is on his way back to the sheds.

 

[freo_leo29]

big WA flavour to this side

Ingo
Stoin
Bison
Coops
Hardie
David
Green

7 of 11

 

[Plugger35]

150 to win for West Australia, how many overs will it that take them to make that? I reckon somewhere between 10 to 15 overs.

 

[Plugger35]

Another duck for JFM, unlucky though with a great catch from McMullen.

 

[Plugger35]

Currie dismissing Head as well, game on.

 

[Plugger35]

Mitch Marsh smashing Currie out of the park.

Green doing likewise, one over too many for Currie.

 

[ioppolo]

Inglis reward for hitting a century is to not bat at all. I get giving the others a hit but c'mon...

 

[Westend]

Lovely reverse for six from green dog just saw the highlights

Missed the game thought it was on tonight lol

 

[freo_leo29]

Inglis reward for hitting a century is to not bat at all. I get giving the others a hit but c'mon...

Would've preferred them to send Coops in when we needed 19 to win tbh

 

[Cmarsh]

What exactly was the point of Australia playing Scotland?

The Scots put the Aussies on a ground that looked more like it belongs in a village cricket comp than anything that comes close to resembling an International standard ground.

 

[akkaps]

What exactly was the point of Australia playing Scotland?

Think of it the other way, The Scots would get a lot more out of playing Australia than the Australians would get for playing Scotland. It's a good tack on to the English series, and gives the Scots a better quality competition then just playing the Dutch and Irish. Also, seeing as though Scotland did fairly well in the T20WC, what's wrong with them getting games against tougher sides.

The Scots put the Aussies on a ground that looked more like it belongs in a village cricket comp than anything that comes close to resembling an International standard ground.

The Grange is the main venue for Scotland, they may not have the resources and funding the build stadiums that compare to England. Plus, with Edinburgh being so far north, grounds would be hard to maintain for sporadic games in the cold.

This three match series is good for the development of cricket, hopefully we see more of this in the future.

 

[Plugger35]

Scotland didn't perform all that well but the 3 matches there were all well supported so I think the series was still worthwhile.

 

[ioppolo]

Not everything happens or exists for Australia's benefit.

 

[big_e]

Think of it the other way, The Scots would get a lot more out of playing Australia than the Australians would get for playing Scotland. It's a good tack on to the English series, and gives the Scots a better quality competition then just playing the Dutch and Irish. Also, seeing as though Scotland did fairly well in the T20WC, what's wrong with them getting games against tougher sides.


The Grange is the main venue for Scotland, they may not have the resources and funding the build stadiums that compare to England. Plus, with Edinburgh being so far north, grounds would be hard to maintain for sporadic games in the cold.

This three match series is good for the development of cricket, hopefully we see more of this in the future.

If memory serves, these matches were supposed to be vs Ireland, but Ireland pulled out for financial reasons, and it was then that CA that approached Scotland.

If this is correct, then full credit to CA. I'd much rather us play development series against Scotland, Netherlands, Nepal, Namibia, etc that play another ****ing series against England or India.

 

[freo_leo29]

What exactly was the point of Australia playing Scotland?

The Scots put the Aussies on a ground that looked more like it belongs in a village cricket comp than anything that comes close to resembling an International standard ground.

Why not?

We rarely play these teams

Zimbabwe beat us at home a couple years back, would do alot for those sides

 

[akkaps]

If memory serves, these matches were supposed to be vs Ireland, but Ireland pulled out for financial reasons, and it was then that CA that approached Scotland.

If this is correct, then full credit to CA. I'd much rather us play development series against Scotland, Netherlands, Nepal, Namibia, etc that play another ****ing series against England or India.

If this series wasn't on the same tour as the English series, I would have recommended Australia take a slightly lesser strong team.
NZ did the same thing by playing UAE during the IPL without their main stars.

 

[Westend]

What exactly was the point of Australia playing Scotland?

The Scots put the Aussies on a ground that looked more like it belongs in a village cricket comp than anything that comes close to resembling an International standard ground.

To beat them in a competitive game

 

[Cmarsh]

To beat them in a competitive game

However none of the three games were particularly competitive.

 

[Saints4ever]

England vs Australia Game 1.

England has won the toss and elected to bowl

 

[Moonwatcher]

Was the start delayed by 15 minutes?

 

[Saints4ever]

Was the start delayed by 15 minutes?

Short rain delay.

Clear sunny sky now

 

[Saints4ever]

I like Matt Short opening.

Fraser McGurk didn’t take his chance in Scotland.

 

[Saints4ever]

Poms with 3 debutants

 

[Moonwatcher]

Strikers champion Jamie Overton playing for England.